in the flourishing of numerous pan-Celtic organizations. In some degree this may reflect an interiorization of the “Celtic” image projected from without, generated to some considerable extent by communities in the United States and elsewhere that trace their origins to Ireland, Scotland, or Wales. But it is rooted too in the rise of nationalist movements in the Celtic areas over the last one hundred years. For centuries the Celtic-speaking peoples have all experienced a greater or lesser degree of
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