Hi Todd Thanks for your interesting and informative post on the meaning of Celt. What I wonder was the Greeks name for themselves? I t seems to be a common thread that languages use the word "man" for the locals (Inuit, Maori) and Stranger (pakeha in maori) for everyone else, and probably a short step from stranger to enemy or target. Think of our own language, "man" and if a new race arrived from space "alien", with all the conotations attached. It would seem that we are probably insulting the memory of those people long ago by using the word Celt to describe peoples with different racial backgrounds and cultures, some of whom would have been at war with the others. Try going to the English borders today, call someone English when they are Scots, or Welsh when they are English and you will receive a very snippy reply! I always thought of the Celts as being a stocky, dark skinned and haired people like the modern day Welsh and Cornish until I read a description of Celts as a tall germanic people with fair skin, red/blonde hair, the typical Sandy haired Scot. No doubt the cultural differences were as great as the appearances. Of course we have only a few accounts left to us of the customs of these people and much of that is Roman propaganda and the archaeological evidence is difficult to decipher. A thought, should we in fact, call the modern days people living in Ireland Irish when they are descended from so many different backgrounds both racially and culturally? Should we be inclusive in these politically correct days in order to try and mend the arguements of the past or should we acknowledge the fact that the history of Ireland (and most other countires ) has in fact been shaped by continual invasion, migration and intermarriage? Shouldn't we recognise and celebrate the differences in order to understand the past better while acknowledging that we all need to rub along together and that past misdeeds are just that... in the past? regards Jane Pearson jtpoutdoor@xtra.co.nz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Lyons" <sniliaghin@iol.ie> To: <IRL-CAVAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 8:45 AM Subject: [IRL-CAVAN] Roman Catholic Parish records - what is available > Antrim, Armagh, Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Donegal, Down, GAlway, Kilkenny, > Laois, Mayo, Meath and Offaly > > National Library of Ireland film numbers, Public Records Office Northern > Ireland and Latter Day Saints Family History film numbers - where-ever > applicable. > > Extracts of records in some cases, information on what lewis had to say > about the R.C. parish - how it fitted in to the civil parish in 1837, or > comments on condition of the records > > Jane > > http://www.from-ireland.net/parishrecords/coindparrecs.htm > > > ==== IRL-CAVAN Mailing List ==== > For the IRL-CAVAN-L archives, go to > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/IRL-CAVAN >