The oldest musical tradition which fits under the label of Celtic fusion originated in the rural American south in the early colonial period and incorporated Scottish, Scots-Irish, Irish, English, and African influences.

Some of the first British-sanctioned settlers to the island following the Seven Years ' War were Irish, although upon settlement, they merged with local French communities to form a culture rich in both music and tradition.

By tradition, the pagan Saxons were invited by Vortigern to assist in fighting the Picts and Irish, though archaeology has suggested some official settlement as landed mercenaries as early as the 3rd century.

It was once unquestioned that medieval Irish literature preserved truly ancient traditions in a form virtually unchanged through centuries of oral tradition back to the ancient Celts of Europe.

* November 1 is called November Day ( Lá Samhna ) in Celtic tradition and is thus named in the Irish Calendar, where the month is called Mí na Samhna.

It is the most popular tune-type within the Irish dance music tradition.

It crossed the Atlantic ocean with Irish and British immigration and thus entered the musical tradition of Atlantic and French-speaking Canada including that of Quebecers and Acadians.

At the time of mass transatlantic Irish and Scottish immigration, which popularized Halloween in North America, Halloween in Ireland and Scotland had a strong tradition of guising and pranks.

Ronald Hutton notes that while medieval Irish authors do attribute a historical pagan significance to the Beltane festival, they are silent in this respect in regard to Samhain, apparently because no tradition of pagan ritual had survived into the Christian period.

Apart from these creative writers, much of the impetus for the Revival came from the work of scholarly translators who were aiding in the discovery of both the ancient sagas and Ossianic poetry and the more recent folk song tradition in Irish.

Cuthbert himself, though educated in the Irish tradition, followed his mentor Eata in accepting the Roman forms without apparent difficulty after the Synod of Whitby in 664.

Donegal has a long literary tradition in both Irish and English.

In the best British and Irish tradition, malt vinegar is often the condiment of choice of many Australasian fish and chip lovers.

Irish social dance is a living tradition, and variations in particular dances are found across the Irish dancing community ; in some places, dances are deliberately modified and new dances are choreographed.

Yet the various forms of concertina survived in some areas: Anglo concertinas in Irish traditional music, the English and the Anglo in English Morris dancing, the Anglo in Africa, among Afrikaners ( see Boer music ) and Zulus ( who call it a " squashbox "), the Chemnitzer in the United States as a polka instrument, and the " bandoneón " in Argentina as a prominent part of the Tango tradition.

Irish expatriates had a long tradition of serving in military forces of Catholic countries, for instance, serving with Spain and later France in groups of young men who had left Ireland during what would become known as the Flight of the Wild Geese in the 17th century.

The " Roman " tonsure, in the shape of a crown, differing from the Irish tradition, which is unclear but involved shaving the hair from ear to ear in some fashion

Brian “ Boru ” combined Irish tradition with innovation to become the most successful Irish king of his time.

" Finnegan's Wake " is a ballad that arose in the 1850s in the music-hall tradition of comical Irish songs.

Cormac mac Airt ( son of Art ), also known as Cormac ua Cuinn ( grandson of Conn ) or Cormac Ulfada ( long beard ), was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland.

Art mac Cuinn (" son of Conn "), also known as Art Óenfer ( literally " one man ", used in the sense of " lone ", " solitary ", or " only son "), was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland.

A number of figures called Macha appear in Irish mythology, legend and historical tradition, all believed to derive from the same deity.

Then there are a pair of old biddies played by Grace Carney and Sibly Bowan who may be right off the shelf of stock Irish characters, but they put such a combination of good will and malevolence into their parts that they're quite entertaining.

For a while there were two different dialects of Irish being spoken on Achill.

On the 1930 tour a delegation led by the Irish lock George Beamish expressed their displeasure at the fact that whilst the blue of Scotland, white of England and red of Wales were represented in the strip there was no green for Ireland.

This comb detail is also related to the centuries-old traditional romantic Irish story that, if you ever see a comb lying on the ground in Ireland, you must never pick it up, or the banshees ( or mermaids — stories vary ), having placed it there to lure unsuspecting humans, will spirit such gullible humans away.

A number of other European languages have cognate words that were borrowed from the Germanic languages during the Middle Ages, including brog in Irish, bwr or bwrc, meaning " wall, rampart " in Welsh, bourg in French, burg in Catalan ( in Catalonia there is a town named Burg ), borgo in Italian, and burgo in Spanish ( hence the place-name Burgos ).

Later, beginning in 1982 with The Pogues ' invention of Celtic folk-punk and Stockton's Wing blend of Irish traditional and Pop, Rock and Reggie, there has been a movement to incorporate Celtic influences into other genres of music.

However, there is a sense in which he was not leaving his native people, as the Irish Gaels had been colonizing the west coast of Scotland for the previous couple of centuries.

There is, however, no pre-1858 Irish document that describes the way game was played, in particular there is no reference to the distinctive croquet stroke.

After Áed's death there is a two decade gap until the death of Donald II ( Domnall mac Constantín ) in 900 during which nothing is reported in the Irish annals.

Casement had gone there from the United States the previous year with the support of Clan na Gael leader John Devoy, and after discussions with the German Ambassador in Washington, Count von Bernstorff, to try to recruit an " Irish Brigade " from among Irish prisoners of war and secure German support for Irish independence.

She has changed it to make reference to " Jock Stewart ", one of her relatives, and there are no Irish references.

All other firearms held in custody remained there however, until the repeal of the Garda policy following a high court case taken by an Irish shooter ( Frank Brophy ) to obtain a licence for an Olympic target shooting pistol succeeded and the licence was granted.

Often combinations of these can interact, such as in Irish, where there is a proclitic past tense marker do ( various surface forms ) used in conjunction with the affixed or ablaut-modified past tense form of the verb.

As the 4th century progressed, there were increasing attacks from the Saxons in the east and the Irish in the west.

Today there are an estimated 700, 000 people of Irish ancestry in Argentina, approximately 15. 5 % of the Republic of Ireland's current population ; however, these numbers may be far higher, given that many Irish newcomers declared themselves to be British, as Ireland at the time was still part of the United Kingdom and today their descendants integrated into Argentine society with mixed bloodlines.

In 1803, Irish poet Thomas Moore arrived in Bermuda, having been appointed registrar to the Admiralty there.

Although there is little surviving evidence of Irish culture, some elderly islanders can remember when the term " cilig " ( or killick ) was used to describe a common method of fishing for sea turtles by tricking them into swimming into prearranged nets ( this was dome by splashing a stone on a line-the cilig-into the water on the turtle's opposite side ).

In Irish there is a word cílí meaning sly.

In Antigonish County, next to Guysborough County in Nova Scotia there are a few rural Irish villages despite the predominance of Scottish in most of that County.

From the 1620s, many of the Irish Catholic merchant class in this period migrated voluntarily to the West Indies to avail of the business opportunities there occasioned by the trade in sugar, tobacco and cotton.

Before the Great Hunger (" Irish Potato Famine "), in which over a million died and more emigrated, there had been the Penal Laws which had already resulted in significant emigration from Ireland.

According to the Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, in 1790 there were 400, 000 Americans of Irish birth or ancestry out of a total white population of 3, 100, 000.