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Celts (modern) The modern Celts (/ kɛlts / KELTS, see pronunciation of Celt) are a related group of ethnicities who share similar Celtic languages, cultures and artistic histories, and who live in or descend from one of the regions on the western extremities of Europe populated by the Celts. [1][2] A modern Celtic identity emerged in Western ...
Celtic Britons. The Britons (* Pritanī, Latin: Britanni), also known as Celtic Britons[1] or Ancient Britons, were the indigenous Celtic people [2] who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others). [2]
The Celts (/ kɛlts / kelts, see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples (/ ˈkɛltɪk / KEL-tick) were a collection of Indo-European peoples [1] in Europe and Anatolia, identified by their use of Celtic languages and other cultural similarities. [2][3][4][5] Major Celtic groups included the Gauls; the Celtiberians and Gallaeci [6 ...
A newspaper of the name, The Anglo-Celt (pronounced in this case as 'Anglo-kelt'), was founded in County Cavan in Ireland in 1846. In an 1869 publication, the term was contrasted with Anglo-Saxon as a more appropriate term for people of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh descent worldwide: "Anglo-Saxon," as applied to the modern British people ...
The six Celtic nations. Brittany. Cornwall. Ireland. Isle of Man. Scotland. Wales. The Celtic nations or Celtic countries[1] are a cultural area and collection of geographical regions in Northwestern Europe where the Celtic languages and cultural traits have survived. [2] The term nation is used in its original sense to mean a people who share ...
The Anglo-Celt (/ ˈæŋɡloʊ ˈsɛlt /) [2] is a weekly local newspaper published every Thursday in Swellan, Cavan, Ireland, founded in 1846. It exclusively contains local news about Cavan and surroundings. The news coverage of the paper is mainly based on the paper's local county of Cavan. Over the years it has fended off competition from ...
The Ulster Senior Football Championship is an inter-county and cross-border competition for Gaelic football teams in the Irish province of Ulster. It is organised by the Ulster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) and begins in April. The final is played in May, but, traditionally, was usually played on the third Sunday in July.
The Insular Celts were speakers of the Insular Celtic languages in the British Isles and Brittany. The term is mostly used for the Celtic peoples of the isles up until the early Middle Ages, covering the British – Irish Iron Age, Roman Britain and Sub-Roman Britain. They included the Celtic Britons, the Picts, and the Gaels.