The Irish are Not Celts

[Celtic_Punk]

Cmaq... You also gotta think that perhaps they were looking for their own identity? To them there were only gauls and britons as foreigners. Sure they'd get the odd tale from a bard of places distant, but the people whom they'd have contact with would be (for the lack of a proper inoffensive word) other celts.

Even now the surviving Celtic peoples have very different identities, you really can't compare an Irishman and a Breton or a Scotsman or a Corn(on the cob).

Lets just take a step into a hypothetical world. In a widespread culture (Celt) it would be of utmost importance to me to be different to my neighbours, to have my own identity. Such as Adeui Averni, they'd most likely consider themselves Celts, but they wouldn't say they were the same as the other. In their bid to distance themselves from old enemies, or just to gain their own identity in the world, you might just be confusing it with them telling you who they really are.

Of course this is just theoretical. Still food for thought.
No matter I will still hang on to my Celtic identity. A culture that brought the world soap, fine long swords, good helms, one of the first to have semi-equal rights for women (see Queen Bodicca) and an all round bad ass rep on the battlefield.


oh and did I forget Guiness? "A Pint of the black stuff, guv"