THE FIRST IRISH CELT—TADHG Ó NEACHTAIN (d. c. 1752)
By Patrick Wadden Ian Stewart’s magnificent recent book, The Celts: a modern history, and Mark Williams’s perceptive review (HI 33.6, Nov./Dec. 2025) have brought questions about Ireland’s Celtic identity back into focus. The tendency to label as ‘Celtic’ everything associated with early Ireland—and assorted modern phenomena that wish to associate themselves with Ireland’s distant past … Read more