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From:
indiana
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Mar 25, 2008 4:35 PM
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whats your guys opinion on the Island Celts
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Republic of Ireland
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Aug 15, 2009 3:36 PM
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Well I'm Irish so I'll speak about the Irish aspect 
I'm proud of Irish achievements such as thriving in the dark ages,becomming 'the land of saints and scholars' with a reputation for learning and pioty which helped revitalise dark age europe and preserving 'civilisation' in western europe.
The celts aslo left us with fine art and monuments(such as newgrange which is older than the pyramids) as well as defining our own Irish culture today.
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Salt Lake City
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Sep 5, 2009 9:39 PM
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I'm glad that the Irish and Scots and to a smaller exten the Welsh were able to resist the Romanization that the rest of Europe was engaged in. Celtic thought and art was so different form the Grecco-Roman that the Romans totally ignored it. Without the island Celts, we would have lost it all. From my American-Irish-Welsh-Scotts-English-German etc. heritage, and looking at a distance of generations and 4,000 miles, I think one of the graet tragedies is that the Celtic languages are in danger of being englished away.
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Republic of Ireland
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Sep 6, 2009 7:03 AM
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Yeah sadly only in fringe areas in the west of Ireland have the native language and in the west of Wales and Scotland.
Although a recent study (well;last year anyway) showed that Irish at least was on the increase with the help of Irish speaking channels such as TG4 and soaps like Ros na Run.
And at least the language is recorded, so their can always be a resurgence if the unthinkable happens and these native languages die out.
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Salt Lake City
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Sep 10, 2009 4:37 PM
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I have studied Welsh and did rasonably well. Unfortunately, being 4000 miles from Wales I have not had much of a chance to practice. I found the mutations to be the most difficult thing. One of the teachers (this was in Wales) had studied Irish and said it was harder by far than Welsh. I think Irish would be easier if the used a simplified spelling. But then there is the eclipses and long and short consonants.
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