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Ancient Ireland: Life before the Celts

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This is beautiful book that offers a great deal of information about pre-Celtic Ireland through artifacts discovered and the impressive sites from this period that are still standing and through the archeological record the author gives us some insight as to what this culture (or cultures) looked like. However I do take issue with some of the information presented in this book. There is much debate as to the periods of Celtic invasion and more and more the research in both linguistics and archeology continue to push the dates of Celtic occupation further and further back. The Celts and peoples that existed before pre-Celtic times traded with Ireland along the mid Atlantic trade routes for millennia and the Celtic invasions themselves are believed to have occurred along both the mid-Atlantic route and across the English channel.
Please keep this in mind as you read this book.
That being said the this book is still a great resource especially if used in conjunction with current credible sources on the topic of the Celtic invasions.