Celtic tradition

Ancient Irish customs

Celtic tradition refers to the cultural practices, beliefs, and customs associated with the Celtic peoples of ancient and medieval Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany.

The term encompasses mythology, music, art styles, seasonal festivals, and spiritual practices—some genuinely ancient, others reconstructed or romanticized in modern times.

The wedding incorporated Celtic tradition with handfasting and Gaelic blessings.

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La Tène culture · folklore · sacred groves · Green Man · triskele · harvest festival · ancestor veneration · insular art · torc · Brehon law · fairy · fairy fort · Irish Gaelic · bodhrán · Beltane · otherworld · woad · heather

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ethnic/cultural heritage in the british isles

Celtic traditionEnglish tradition

Established British cultural practice

Viking culture · Roman tradition

classical vs. indigenous european culture

Celtic traditionRoman tradition

Practice from ancient Italy

classical antiquity · Roman civilization · Latin culture

religious/spiritual framework

Celtic traditionChristianity

Faith based on Jesus

monotheism · Roman Catholicism · Christian tradition · Protestantism · organized religion

Family

tradition, Celtic, Celt

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