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celtic

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1. celtic - Noun

2. celtic - Adjective

3. Celtic - Proper noun

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Of or pertaining to the Celts; as, Celtic people, tribes, literature, tongue.

The language of the Celts.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman. Ian Paisley

I have come to use the pan-Celtic history, which spans from 500 BC to the present, as a creative springboard. The music I am creating is a result of traveling down that road and picking up all manner of themes and influences, which may or may not be overtly Celtic in nature. Loreena McKennitt

Celtic civilization was tribal, but by no means savage or uncultivated. People who regarded the theft of a harp from a bard as a crime second only to an attack on the tribal chieftain cannot be regarded as wanting in cultivated feeling. Robertson Davies

Celtic jerseys are not for second best, They don't shrink to fit inferior players. Jock Stein

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. Huston Smith

The magic that you hear in tales and things was all based around the Celtic mythology of England, which is Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings. I just drain from that source. I just drain everything. So the magic is there. Donovan

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