No idea why you were downvoted like that. I'm a nominal Brit with a lot of Irish influence. Reverse those nationalities and you could say the same - which you

No idea why you were downvoted like that. I'm a nominal Brit with a lot of Irish influence. Reverse those nationalities and you could say the same - which you pretty much did. I have a similar experience of wakes as you - they are quite often a damn good piss up and quite rightly so. As to the Celts thing, that is rather more complicated. In England there is a pejorative term: the "Celtic fringe" which probably doesn't help here! Celtic-ism seems to me to be a bit of an amalgam of some real historic fact and rather a lot of rose tinted, backwards glancing pseudo nationalism and a lot of bollocks. I won't go further on that, otherwise this comment will become an essay but as you say: "... ancient demographic groups in reference to modern day events" - where's the relevance: we've moved on a bit since 55/54BC etc?