Example sentences for: celtic

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  • The result is a fairly schematic narrative: The young hothead of the early Celtic Revivalist years produces lovely impracticalities until 1914, when Ireland explodes; he learns about reality, becomes a great poet of civil war, and a modernist to boot; after 1925, or thereabouts, he becomes one of those "monuments of unageing intellect" about whom he writes in "Sailing to Byzantium"--the splendid complainer of the late verse.

  • Fraoch itself has other meanings which must go back to Old Celtic.

  • The Celts were organized along a family- and clan-based system, and Celtic Ireland became a series of independent kingdoms.

  • And while we are about it, London remains an obscure name, despite attempts to interpret it as Londinos' place, from a Celtic personal name said to mean wild one.

  • When Celtic peoples crossed the Pyrenees in the first millennium b.c., they intermarried with the existing Iberian population and built a series of hilltop fort communities or citânias, the finest example of which is at Briteiros (see page 73).


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