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Celtic Christian Church

October 15, 2010

From the Celtic History Newsletter: By the 6th century the Christian church in Ireland had become organized in a system of monastic “federations” connected to a mother house. By the 7th century this system appears to have replaced the Diocesan system, giving authority to the abbot of the monastery rather than to a Bishop....
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Spanish Celts

By Marc Gunn

May 11, 2010

From the Celtic History Newsletter: People usually don’t think of Spain when they think of Celts, but other than Gaul it is the only other place where the use of the term “Celt” is documented in antiquity in the form of names such as “Celtius” and tribal names such as “Celti Praestamarici.” Celts seem...
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Crannogs

By Marc Gunn

April 5, 2010

From the Celtic History Newsletter: Crannogs are usually artificial “islands” that were constructed mainly in lakes, but on occasion in rivers. The name may derive from the Irish word for tree “crann” and may have referred to the timber palisades that protected such sites, or the timber foundations on which they were built. In...
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Tartan Day

By Marc Gunn

March 30, 2010

From the Celtic History Newsletter: I was planning on talking more about the earliest inhabitants of Ireland this month, but I’m moving that to next month. Since Tartan Day is coming up April 7th I decided to take a quick look at this new holiday to give people a little time to learn about,...
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List of Irish Drinking Songs

By Marc Gunn

March 9, 2010

by Marc Gunn Celts around the world love a good song with which they can sing along. Irish drinking songs are of that variety. They are fun songs, usually about drinking, that bring out the excited folksinger in all of us. When I sent a question out to my Twitter fans asking them what...
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