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

In the Irish tradition there were two types of such peregrinatio, the " lesser " peregrinatio, involving leaving one's home area but not the island, and the " superior " peregrinatio, which meant leaving Ireland for good.

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.

Some composers were able to travel abroad for training, usually to Italy, and learned to compose vocal and instrumental works in the Italian Classical tradition popular in the day.

At present there are at least sixty centers in India and abroad that carry on the tradition of Vedantic teaching.

At the same time, Soviet musicologists engaged in developing a Russian avant-garde tradition were officially prohibited from going abroad.

A Palestinian synod, under the direction of bishops Narcissus and Theophilus, issued " a lengthy review of the tradition about the Easter festival Sunday eve which had come down to them without a break from the apostles ", concluding: Endeavor also to send abroad copies of our epistle among all the churches, so that those who easily deceive their own souls may not be able to lay the blame on us.

Although about one half of the scientists accepted positions at leading scientific centers and universities abroad, most of them kept ties with their home institute, forming a scientific network in the tradition of the Landau school and supporting young theoretical physicists in the Landau Institute.

On the other hand, Jawbox had been influenced by " the tradition of Chicago's thriving early -' 80s scene ", while The Nation of Ulysses are " best remembered for lifting the motor-mouthed revolutionary rhetoric of the MC5 " with the incorporation of " elements of R & B ( as filtered through the MC5 ) and avant jazz " combined with " exciting, volatile live gigs ", and being the inspiration for " a new crop of bands both locally and abroad ".

The founders were Baden-Württemberg, the Federal Government of Germany, the City of Budapest and the Hungarian government, in succession to a tradition of German abroad schools in Hungary dating back to the late 19th century.

He travels abroad helping to maintain the Nueva Canción tradition in Chilean expatriate communities in Europe, North America, and Australia.

The artistic tradition of Embu is an institution with projects and events done both in Brazil and abroad since 1964.

Guided discussion sessions aim to explore such topics as the Jewish tradition in the modern world, how Jewish life in Israel differs from Jewish life abroad, and how mandatory military service impacts young Israelis ' perceptions of service and commitment to their country.

The dish is consumed in Sicily and in isolated pockets of Southern Italy, as well as their communities abroad to commemorate the relief from a food shortage in Sicily and the unexpected arrival of a cargo of wheat which tradition says arrived in the port of Palermo on Saint Lucy's Feast, in 1646.

Many Roman Catholic parishes with Filipino communities abroad have also adopted the same tradition of the solemn Wednesday novena.

In his acceptance speech he deplored the state of the union: " When the strongest nation in the world can be tied down for four years in Vietnam with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world can't manage its own economy, when the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law is plagued by unprecedented racial violence, when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home, then it's time for new leadership for the United States of America.

The church continues to work in the tradition of William Carey by sending missionaries abroad to India and the Amazon.

Ajahn Mun Bhuridatta Thera (, ; ), 1870 – 1949, was a Thai Buddhist monk of Lao descent who is credited, along with his mentor, Phra Ajahn Sao Kantasilo Mahathera, with establishing the Thai Forest Tradition ( the Kammatthana tradition ) that subsequently spread throughout Thailand and to several countries abroad.

By seeking close alliances with powerful noble families, Alexios put an end to the tradition of imperial exclusivity and coopted most of the nobility into his extended family and, through it, his government.

He spelled his own given name with a " C " in order to identify with the classical Western tradition ; writers who wrongly use " Karl " are seeking to emphasize his German identity.

The meaning of left-wing and right-wing varies considerably between different countries and at different times, but generally speaking, it can be said that the right wing often values tradition and social stratification while the left wing often values reform and egalitarianism, with the center seeking a balance between the two such as with social democracy or regulated capitalism.

Feminist advocates within Orthodoxy have tended to stay within the traditional legal process of argumentation, seeking a gradualist approach, and avoiding wholesale arguments against the religious tradition as such.

Sola scriptura, however, does not ignore Christian history and tradition when seeking to understand the Bible.

Avant-garde in music can refer to any form of music working within traditional structures while seeking to breach boundaries in some manner, or to describe the work of any musicians who radically depart from tradition altogether.

" Kalam " generally referred to the Islamic tradition of seeking theological principles through dialectic.

In broad terms, the English School itself has supported the rationalist or Grotian tradition, seeking a middle way ( or via media ) between the ' power politics ' of realism and the ' utopianism ' of revolutionism.

In Arabic the word means " discussion ", and refers to the Islamic tradition of seeking theological principles through dialectic.

The Lutheran approach can be described as one of " reformation ," seeking " to reform and purify the historic, institutional church while at the same time preserving as much of the tradition as possible.

" In contrast, the Reformed approach can be described as one of " restoration ," seeking " to restore the essence and form of the primitive church based on biblical precedent and example ; tradition received scant respect.

Some bath houses emphasize their tradition, and run traditionally-designed bath houses to appeal to clientele seeking the lost Japan.

Woolman worked within the Friends ' tradition of seeking the guidance of the Spirit of Christ and patiently waiting to achieve unity in the Spirit.

Borges sees Lugones in El Payador ( 1916 ) as operating in an explicitly nationalist tradition, seeking a national epic to take the role of Don Quixote or the Divine Comedy and render the Argentines a " people of the book ", in a nationalist reflection of religious identity.

When anticlericalism became a clear goal of French revolutionaries, counter-revolutionaries seeking to restore tradition and the Ancien Régime took up arms, particularly in the War in the Vendée ( 1793 to 1796 ).

In 1997 the major parties had observed a recent tradition by not opposing the Speaker seeking re-election.

Over her one hundred years, Shanxi University has evolved a cultural tradition of " knowing the East and the West ; seeking the good and true ; promoting the virtuous and the talented ; being self-reliant and serving the country ", and a school spirit of " Being industrious, strict, honest and creative.

" Taft and his supporters attacked Roosevelt for being power-hungry, and seeking to break the tradition that U. S. Presidents only serve up to two terms in office.

She was " mesmerized by the Autobiography of a Yogi and loved the whole great Hindu tradition of spiritual seeking ..."

There was once a tradition that wearing a collar with an open padlock indicated that one was seeking a partner, a closed lock indicated that one was in a relationship.

The industry has a tradition of seeking out, employing and generously rewarding such people without reference to any formal qualifications.

He emphasised the importance of the Spring and Autumn Annals as a source for both political and metaphysical ideas, following the tradition of the Gongyang Commentary in seeking hidden meanings from its text.

However, regarding the main RGMs in the West, according to this conceptual construct that seeks to amass and interpret in embracive yet empirical terms, there are only four such dominant RGMs over time in the Western tradition that set the tone for all minorities seeking to maintain their distinctive RGM in the surrounding context.

Muslims also visit the Bath of Mary in Jerusalem, where Muslim tradition recounts Mary once bathed, and this location was visited at times by women, who were seeking a cure for barrenness.