Post by SaikyoMcRyu on Aug 22, 2016 6:16:32 GMT
Idea totally stolen from dzejkob's History post here
WARNING: Both Catholic and Protestant whiskeys depicted. Consuming both can result in you kicking your own ass. BEWARE!
About those hard-partying brawl-starting Celts... I recently studied the history of the Celts, who, like the Vikings many centuries later, seemed to be all over Europe at one point.
First, Irish and Scots (the most famously Celtic peoples) are Celts, but not all Celts are Irish and Scots. In fact there are six historically Celtic nations where some form of a Celtic language remains:
Ireland (Eire)
Scotland (Alba)
Isle of Man (Mannin)
Wales (Cymru)
Cornwall (Kernow)
Brittany (Breizh). Brittany is in northwestern France, so yes there are French Celts in addition to whatever traces of ancient Gaul survive among the French themselves.
And an unofficial seventh are the regions of northwestern Spain and Portugal where evidence of Celtic traditions remains (such as bagpipes).
So some quick highlights and lowlights of Celtic history are:
-Originally from the region centered on the town of Halstatt in Austria
-Expanded to dominate most of northern Europe, sacked Rome, and ruled kingdoms as far away as Galatia (Ankara) in Turkey
-Celts who settled in modern France were known as Gauls by the Romans and were eventually subjugated by Julius Caesar
-After the fall of the Roman Empire, the Celtic Britons were pushed out of England by invading Anglo-Saxons, many of whom settled in the peninsula today now known as Brittany (and probably Wales and Cornwall as well)
-The Gauls were overthrown by the Franks, the people who eventually became Charlemagne/Karl der Große's kids (the French and Germans)
-Irish monasteries preserve a large portion of the texts of classical civilization while the rest of Europe parties hard in the Dark Ages
-Fun-loving Scots including Robert Bruce and William Wallace, in between punching each other in the face, accidentally kick England out of Scotland
-??? I skipped this part
-England does stuff in Ireland that is unpopular (details removed to prevent flame wars and permabans)
-Arthur Guinness invents a stout you may have heard of
-Sean Connery
-Bono
-Wales and Northern Ireland both outlast England in Euro 2016
Obviously I got lazy somewhere in there, which may have had something to do with beer.
What's cool about recognizing Celtic ancestry is this: I'm an American and if I go around like "LOL I'm a Ooirishmon" people actually from Ireland will be like "LOL nice try Plastic Paddy go back to your Miller Lite" but if I say I'm a Celt well guess what, I am. If you want to fite I am about 70% Irish, 10% each Welsh and Cornish, and the rest may be English (I like tea and toast, OK???) but nobody's perfect.
Hello fellow Celts around the world from An tSeapáin!
More details here: www.transceltic.com/about-celtic-nations
WARNING: Both Catholic and Protestant whiskeys depicted. Consuming both can result in you kicking your own ass. BEWARE!
About those hard-partying brawl-starting Celts... I recently studied the history of the Celts, who, like the Vikings many centuries later, seemed to be all over Europe at one point.
First, Irish and Scots (the most famously Celtic peoples) are Celts, but not all Celts are Irish and Scots. In fact there are six historically Celtic nations where some form of a Celtic language remains:
Ireland (Eire)
Scotland (Alba)
Isle of Man (Mannin)
Wales (Cymru)
Cornwall (Kernow)
Brittany (Breizh). Brittany is in northwestern France, so yes there are French Celts in addition to whatever traces of ancient Gaul survive among the French themselves.
And an unofficial seventh are the regions of northwestern Spain and Portugal where evidence of Celtic traditions remains (such as bagpipes).
So some quick highlights and lowlights of Celtic history are:
-Originally from the region centered on the town of Halstatt in Austria
-Expanded to dominate most of northern Europe, sacked Rome, and ruled kingdoms as far away as Galatia (Ankara) in Turkey
-Celts who settled in modern France were known as Gauls by the Romans and were eventually subjugated by Julius Caesar
-After the fall of the Roman Empire, the Celtic Britons were pushed out of England by invading Anglo-Saxons, many of whom settled in the peninsula today now known as Brittany (and probably Wales and Cornwall as well)
-The Gauls were overthrown by the Franks, the people who eventually became Charlemagne/Karl der Große's kids (the French and Germans)
-Irish monasteries preserve a large portion of the texts of classical civilization while the rest of Europe parties hard in the Dark Ages
-Fun-loving Scots including Robert Bruce and William Wallace, in between punching each other in the face, accidentally kick England out of Scotland
-??? I skipped this part
-England does stuff in Ireland that is unpopular (details removed to prevent flame wars and permabans)
-Arthur Guinness invents a stout you may have heard of
-Sean Connery
-Bono
-Wales and Northern Ireland both outlast England in Euro 2016
Obviously I got lazy somewhere in there, which may have had something to do with beer.
What's cool about recognizing Celtic ancestry is this: I'm an American and if I go around like "LOL I'm a Ooirishmon" people actually from Ireland will be like "LOL nice try Plastic Paddy go back to your Miller Lite" but if I say I'm a Celt well guess what, I am. If you want to fite I am about 70% Irish, 10% each Welsh and Cornish, and the rest may be English (I like tea and toast, OK???) but nobody's perfect.
Hello fellow Celts around the world from An tSeapáin!
More details here: www.transceltic.com/about-celtic-nations
