![]() ![]() You'll notice I didn't say that Newgrange was built "before the Celts." That's because there never were any "Celts" in the first place. Some of it is just white supremacist garbage. That design is found in exactly one place in Ireland, the impressive prehistoric passage tomb in County Meath called Newgrange, which was built roughly 2,000 years before any tangible evidence had appeared anywhere of the Celtic culture and Celtic languages that had spread across northwestern Europe by Julius Caesar's time. Let's take the ever-popular triple-spiral design motif, identified all over the internet as "Celtic," which is nothing of the kind. Nearly all the Celtomania of the last few decades, unfortunately, amounts to just making stuff up, or to a fantasy-novel mishmash of stuff that doesn't fit together. It's not always easy to tell where one ends and the other begins. But some of it is just white supremacist garbage. I mean, I get it, up to a point: Some of it is about the understandable and maybe even honorable yearning to connect with meaningful cultural traditions from the past, at a historical moment when many people in America and other Western nations (i.e., white folks) feel disconnected and rootless. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fintan O'Toole on Ireland's transformation - and the reverse version now underway in America ![]()
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