Ireland Culture Question
This is your chance to educate me. Why would it be expected
that all Irish should support Irish football and not other non-Irish
teams but one would choose to sort of disdain traditional
Celtic art. Based on the nationalistic football reasoning,
it logically follows that all Irish should support traditional Celtic art
because its Irish and shouldn't the Irish support things Irish?
Or is it just a case of -- we like tradtional Celtic art but that is
not the only kind of art produced in Ireland?
How do you Irish feel about being associated via traditional
Celtic art, etc.? Are you sick of it or just the way non-Irish identify
Ireland with it without realizing that you are in the 20-th century not
the 8th?
Greek writing for their business matters by the time the Romans met them,
and Roman writing was eventually adopted later on. But none of their
tribal
history, genealogy, myths, or religious beliefs could be committed to
paper.
Celts seemed to prefer investing their time and efforts towards creating
objects (jewelry, figurines, weapons, etc.) rather than architecture
(temples, large buildings, cities, etc.). But the Celts were the first
great road builders, long before the Romans. Unfortunately, the Celts
usually used wood as a building material (altho some stone structures
survive to this day), and many Roman roads and temples were built on top
of
existing Celtic structures, which means that many of the original works
are
no longer in evidence.