Product Description

This unique pan-Celtic primer surveys, in one volume, the cultural and political histories of all six Celtic nations.
These nations, the inheritors of an ancient but sparkling civilisation, are today actively demanding a place in the modern world. The author vividly describes their fight for survival, their new self-awareness, and their significance in the world-wide struggle against centralism.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1145112 in Books
• Published on: 1985-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 218 pages

About the Author
The author is Peter Berresford Ellis, a distinguished historian and novelist

Excerpted from The Celtic Revolution by Peter Berresford Ellis. Copyright © 1985. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Today, on the North Western seaboard of Europe, the descendants of the ancient Celtic civilisation still live on, a people struggling hard to survive and maintain their individuality in these days of increasing cultural uniformity and deadly sameness of life. The Welsh, Cornish and the Bretons make up the Brythonic-speaking group whilst the Irish, Manx and Scots constitute the Goidelic or Gaelic-speaking people. Six small nationalities, with their rapidly disappearing latter-day offshoots-the Welsh speaking area of Patagonia in Argentina, and the Scottish Gaelic-speaking area in Nova Scotia, Canada-who, through their ancient languages and cultures, are the inheritors of nearly three thousand years of unbroken cultural tradition.

Customer Reviews

This man speaks the truth.
Linguistic, political and cultural imperialism has been the hobby of the English ruling classes for around a thousand years. In my opinion anyway.
One world. Many cultures.