XPost: soc.culture.irish   
   From: allan@noemail.co.uk   
      
   "Westprog"  wrote in message   
   news:fgp721$re8$1@news.datemas.de...   
   > "cormac"  wrote in message   
   > news:1194333350.960591.175910@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com...   
   >> On Nov 6, 5:29 am, Gregory  wrote:   
   >> > Iain MacGiolla-odhar wrote:   
   >> > > Indeed, we should be united in our opposition to the "writing of   
   >> > > Celts   
   >> > > out of the history books" particularly in schools, we are the   
   > indigenous   
   >> > > people of the Celtic Isles (and have now been proved to be by far the   
   >> > > majority of the population) and the Celtic Renaissance.   
   >> >   
   >> > So long as our immigrants know where they are from, should be good   
   >> > enough. Being Irish is a state of mind.   
   >> >   
   >> > G.   
   >>   
   >> There is no known ethnic or racial group known as celts. There are   
   >> celtic linguistic groups  derived from Indo-European.   
   >   
   > As far as I can tell, most of the people of the British Isles descend from   
   > ancestors who successively absorbed bits of Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Viking   
   > and   
   > Norman culture, with a smattering of DNA. Why 'Celtic' should take primacy   
   > I'm not sure.   
      
   Plus there is another different  modern meaning which has much less to do   
   with linguitics, supposed genetics or descent from ancient Britons or Irish.   
   That is it is common practise to lable Scotland, Ireland and Wales as Celtic   
   coutries along with parts of England and France (eg Cornwall, Britanny). It   
   doesn't mean the likes of the Scots are any more or less Celtic than the   
   English in other senses though.   
      
   Allan   
      
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