Many of the Celtic languages have experienced resurgences in modern years, spurred on partly by the action of artists and musicians who have embraced them as hallmarks of identity and distinctness.

The resurgence in Celtic language and identity, as well as ' regional ' politics and development, has contributed to forces pulling against the unity of the state.

* Celts ( modern ), the modern Celtic identity

In modern times Celtic art is popularly thought of in terms of national identity and therefore specifically Irish, Scottish or Welsh.

Beginning in the 1960s a reinterpretation of archaeological and historic evidence prompted scholars ( such as Goffart and Todd ) to propose new models for explaining the construction of barbarian identity, maintaining that no sense of shared identity was perceived by the Germani ; a similar theory has been proposed for Celtic and Slavic groups.

Since the Celtic Revival, the ringed cross became an emblem of Celtic identity, in addition to its more traditional religious symbolism.

The following pages provide lists of people from countries and regions associated with a modern Celtic identity, arranged by branch of Celtic ethnicity or language grouping.

A broad intellectual movement, calling itself the Celtic Revival grew up in the late 19th century largely initiated by artists and writers of Protestant or Anglo-Irish background who were concerned with furthering Ireland's individual native and cultural identity.

By 60 BC, Celtic political hegemony in the region appears to have collapsed, and the indigenous Dacian tribes throughout the region appear to have reasserted their identity and political independence.

Pliny considers the Celts from Iberia to have migrated from the territory of Lusitania's Celtici which he appears to regard as the original seat of the whole Celtic population of the Iberian peninsula including the Celtiberians, on the ground of an identity of sacred rites, language, and names of cities.

The town had a strong Celtic identity, shown by the names of the residents ( Vrittakos, Eporix, Litumaros ) by the names of the local gods ( Glanis and his companions, the Glanicae, ( similar to the Roman Matres ); and the goddesses Rosmerta and Epona ); by the statues and pottery ; by the customs, such as displaying the severed heads of enemies at the city gate ; and by the cooking utensils found in the ruins, which showed that the people of Glanis boiled their food in pots, rather than frying it in pans like other Mediterranean tribes.

" The Crusaders " and " Celtic Crusaders " met with widespread disapproval from both sets of fans as it incorporated neither team's identity.

The Celtic League is a non-governmental organisation that promotes self-determination and Celtic identity and culture in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall and the Isle of Man, known as the Celtic nations.

The Breton identity is regularly displayed and the use of Celtic symbols is frequent.

He goes on to argue that their distinct Celtic traits ( loyalty to kin, mistrust of governmental authority, and military readiness ), in contrast to the Anglo-Saxon settlers, helped construct the modern American identity.

Six nations tend to be most associated with a modern Celtic identity, and are considered ' the Celtic nations '.

" Since then a few other bands from Ireland have emerged to perform Celtic metal including Geasa and Mael Mórdha.

Lyres appearing to have emerged independently of Greco-Roman prototypes were used by the Teutonic, Gallic, Scandinavian, and Celtic peoples over a thousand years ago.

Influenced mostly by the early work of Hellhammer / Celtic Frost, the style emerged during the late 1980s and gained a certain amount of popularity during the 1990s.

The Paleo-Balkan tribes of Dacians and Thracians emerged in the area in the 2nd millennia BC, with the Celtic Scordisci raiding the Balkans in the 3rd century BC.

The name of Portugal itself reveals much of the country's early history, stemming from the Roman name Portus Cale, a Latin name meaning " Port of Cale " ( some argue that Cale is a word of Celtic origin, which also means port or harbour ), later transformed into Portucale, and finally into Portugal, who emerged as a county of the Kingdom of León ( see First County of Portugal and Second County of Portugal ) and became an independent kingdom in 1139.

The form of the Celtic cross embodies the cross-fertilisation of indigenous and Roman cultures, from which the Welsh nation first emerged.

A Kingdom of Cornwall emerged around the 6th century ; its kings were at first sub-kings and then successors of the Brythonic Celtic Kingdom of Dumnonia.

In the early 1980s, the band Celtic Frost emerged from Zürich, the band eventually released pivotal albums like To Mega Therion, which revolutionized heavy metal.

It also emerged that in his new contract at Wolves, he was earning the same wages as his previous contract with Celtic.

In the 7th century there emerged a resurgence of metalworking with new techniques such as gold filigree that allowed ever smaller and more detailed ornamentations, especially on the penannular and pseudo-penannular Celtic brooches that were important symbols of status for the elite, and also worn by clergy as part of their vestments.

In December 2010, rumours emerged that Aston Villa would transfer Ireland to Celtic F. C., possibly on a loan deal, with Celtic picking up the bulk of his salary.

Celtic nations, with Brittany coloured in black at the bottom

In the 1960s several bands put forward modern adaptations of Celtic music pulling influences from several of the Celtic nations at once to create a modern pan-celtic sound.

This suite depicts the journey of St. Colum Cille through the Celtic nations of Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany and Galicia.

The actual Celtic tribal nations which settled are not known as the particular group of Gauls were already highly Hellenized and used the Greek word of Gaul to describe themselves.

* Celtic nations

Category: Celtic nations

* Variants of the Scottish kilt adopted in other Celtic nations, such as the Welsh cilt and the Cornish cilt

# By self knowledge to further the acceptance of the idea of the Celtic character of Cornwall, one of the six Celtic nations.

Bonfires played a large part in the festivities celebrated down through the last several centuries, and up through the present day in some rural areas of the Celtic nations and the diaspora.

In Celtic nations such as Ireland ( using the Irish calendar ) and in Scandinavia, the winter solstice is traditionally considered as midwinter, with the winter season beginning 1 November, on All Hallows, or Samhain.

* Celts, a people of the Celtic nations

* Celtic nations, the modern territories in North-West Europe where Celtic languages and cultural traits have survived

One common theme found among the Celtic nations describes a race of diminutive people who had been driven into hiding by invading humans.

Category: Celtic nations

Celtic, in this context, refers to the people of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Cornwall, the Celtic nations of the British Isles.

The Premiership's desired new format, strongly opposed by the Celtic nations and Italy, is:

Perranporth hosts an inter-Celtic festival each October, Lowender Peran, drawing people in from Cornwall and the other five Celtic nations.

They share characteristics with Celtic nations as well as Castilian, German, Arab and other Mediterranean-area peoples.

* The Cornwall Fiddle Orchestra are a large group of string players led by fiddle player Hudson Swan and perform a repertoire of mainly traditional fiddle tunes from the Celtic nations including some dance tunes from Cornwall-www. myspace. com / heartinonehand

" Bretton " etymology is coming from Breton, Brittany, the people at the west of France and one of the six Celtic nations.

In the mid-19th century the revival continued, with Sir Samuel Ferguson, the Young Ireland movement and others in Ireland, and a great army, now almost entirely forgotten, of popularizing writers of folk tales, dubious works of history, and other material at work in all the nations with a claim to be Celtic.