"How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Hinges of History, Vol 1) Thomas Cahill"
Hey I believe it!
A person from Ireland told me just a few weeks ago, get that book "How the Irish (or Celts) saved western civilisation" by Cahill, I am kinding of paraphrasing the title, but surely someone here knows of the book I speak of. It is a treatise on how the books printed, etc. by Irish Monks, withstood the Viking invaders; stuff like that.
Celts are from Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Brittany in France and I believe it is said even Bohemia in the Czech Republic-Slovakia area.
..they even lived in Galatia (Asia Minor \Turkey)
I bought that book a few Christmasses ago for dear friends who are Americans of Irish ancestry. They loved it...
"How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Hinges of History, Vol 1) Thomas Cahill"
"Celts are from Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Brittany in France and I believe it is said even Bohemia in the Czech Republic-Slovakia area."
Celts probably started in west or central Asia, migrated west. Some of the best Celtic ruins and artifacts are in Southern Germany and Switzerland.
Their continued migration took them to France, Spain. And later to the British Isles. Probably in two or more waves, because Britain has two distict Celtic language groups.
One is Welsh Gaelic, shared with Brittany. The other is Irish/Scottish Gaelic.
"How the Irish Saved Civilization"
It's an excellent book.
Hubby spent his whole life glorying in his Sicilian ancestry until I informed him that his surname is of Celtic "place name" origin.
Ferrera Italy was an ancient Celtic iron working site long, *long* before "Italians" ever got there.
Not surprisingly, hubby is a welder/metal fabricator and where we live used to be the log house of a colonial blacksmith.
Odder still, the 3 houses in the immediate area were all part of a blacksmith/wheelwright village on the old National Pike during the westward expansion/wagon train days and all 3 houses are inhabited by metal workers.
This area had a Colonial iron furnace nearby due to all the iron-ore bearing rock in the area.
[which was founded by a Huguenot immigrant named Launcelot Jaques; yet another Gaul]
The land called them 'home', I suspect.....:)
My surname comes from the proto-Celtic solar deity "Lug", who was skilled in many arts, as am I.
[mythopaeic "genetics" rule].....LOL!
Anthropologists believe that the people we know as "Celts" were first recognized as a cohesive, distinctive culture that originated in the steppes of the Caucaucus mountains and they spread westward and southward from there.
That book is pop history at its worst. Read this Irish review of the story.
I'm wondering if this nascent Italian Celtophilia is anything like that which has been going on in England: prone to stupid Romanticism and antiquarianism, using an ancient and not-terribly-uniform race as a screen for our most cherished projections.
Once they were removed to the West which is North of Provincia, the territory was renamed by latin speaking people who moved in.
Celts, as every other European group, came out of Asia and their traces are found on their path all the way back to Asia. Galatia in Asia minor was celtic, “Galatia” being from the same linguistic stock as “gaul” and “Celt.” The Tarim Basin mummies from NW China of 2 1/2 to 4 millennia ago are very Celtic/Nordic appearing people, even to their textiles.