{"id":34987,"date":"2017-12-30T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34987"},"modified":"2017-12-13T11:03:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T16:03:41","slug":"qotd-the-celtic-peoples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/12\/30\/qotd-the-celtic-peoples\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The &#8220;Celtic&#8221; peoples"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230; I became a little more aware of what might be described as a genetic disorder, shared generally by the \u201cCeltic\u201d peoples, from Shetlands and Orkneys to Galicia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCeltic\u201d is of course a creation of the modern academic mind, which keeps tidier files than I do. There never was, in fact, such a race or people. They were just a bunch of mongrels driven west, ever west, until they came against The Ocean \u2014 while the more settling tribes established their European <em>lebensraum<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, perhaps, they flit north, and east, but let us put those refugees out of sight and mind, as most were made extinct. For I refer expressly to \u201cthe people of the fiddle,\u201d who, when delivered to the New World (invariably by some persecution), instinctively found the least arable land, and scattered up anything that resembled mountains. We find them still today not only in \u201cthe highlands\u201d of Cape Breton, but right down the Appalachian cordillera, where they dug in as \u201chillbillies\u201d and such. They remain the ethnic backbone of our English-speaking armies, ever eager to sign up.<\/p>\n<p>David Warren, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidwarrenonline.com\/2016\/06\/02\/of-mercy-forgiveness\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Of mercy &amp; forgiveness&#8221;, <em>Essays in Idleness<\/em><\/a>, 2016-06-02.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; I became a little more aware of what might be described as a genetic disorder, shared generally by the \u201cCeltic\u201d peoples, from Shetlands and Orkneys to Galicia. \u201cCeltic\u201d is of course a creation of the modern academic mind, which keeps tidier files than I do. There never was, in fact, such a race or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,7,41],"tags":[262,33],"class_list":["post-34987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","category-quotations","tag-culture","tag-ireland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-96j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34988,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34987\/revisions\/34988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}