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Bronze anthropomorphic sword-hilt found in Ballyshannon Bay, in county Donegal, Ireland; 1st century B.C. 🇮🇪 Celtic Europe - channel link (please share!): https://t.me/CelticEurope

Traditional Scottish waulking song commemorating one of the heroes of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Alasdair Mac Colla (1610-1647), performed by the band Capercaillie. Gaelic lyrics with subtitles are displayed and more information is available in the description section of the video. Helpful tip: Brave browser can help block out annoying youtube ads. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iD23nutagtY&pp=ygUSQWxhc2RhaXIgbWFjIGNvbGxh

JULY 5: BLESSED IRISH SAILORS Blessed Roibeard Meyler, Blessed Eadbhard Cheevers, and Blessed Padraig Caomhanach Laypersons and Martyrs Died: 1581 --- Blessed Robert Meyler, Blessed Edward Cheevers, and Blessed Patrck Cavanagh were among the 17 Blessed Martyrs of Ireland. These three were laypersons and worked as sailors (probably together). They were victims of the anti-Catholic persecution wrought by Anglicans. Together with Blessed Matthew Lambert, a baker, they were hanged, drawn, and quartered.

Bronze belt-hook decorated in La Tène style from the burial-mound of a Gallic chief at Glauberg, in Hesse, Germany; 5th centyry B.C. 🇩🇪 Celtic Europe - channel link (please share!): https://t.me/CelticEurope

The Small Isles, Rum and Eigg viewed from Muck, in Garmoran, Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Celtic Europe - channel link (please share!): https://t.me/CelticEurope

Yester Chapel, Scotland

The ruins of the city of Entremont, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region of southern France. 🇫🇷 Entremont was the capital city of the Salluvii, who were, according to Strabo, a people of mixed Gallic and Ligurian origin (Ligurians seem to have been a Celtic-speaking people, related to and hardly different from the Gauls). At the time Entremont was built, the Salluvii had formed a powerful tribal state that dominated southeast France and often clashed with the Greek colony of Massalia (now Marseille, France). The city was built on a grid pattern and protected by stone walls and bastions modeled on Greek designs. Archaeologists have found furnaces for metal-working, ovens, and oil-presses within the town. It was even outfitted with drainage systems. Many statues of warriors and sculptures of human heads were also found within the town, attesting the inhabitants’ warlike culture and the classic Celtic cult of the severed head. The town was eventually destroyed by the armies of the Roman Republic around 123 B.C. Roman consuls Marcus Fulvius Flaccus and Gaius Sextius Calvinus intervened in the region at the behest of the Massaliot Greeks, who were being consistently worsted in their conflicts with the native Celts and Ligurians. The Romans would later build the city of Aquae Sextiae (now Aix-en-Provence, France) to replace Entremont. The defeated king of the Salluvii, Teutomalius, fled to the Gallic Allobroges tribe for asylum. When the Roman Republic demanded that he be handed over, the Allobroges refused, leading to war. The Allobroges requested help from the neighboring Arverni tribe and their king, Bituitus, son of Louernius. There was a battle near Bédarrides, on the banks of the river Rhône on August 8, 121 B.C. The Roman consul Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus achieved victory by using war elephants to shock the Gallic host. The following year, consul Quintus Fabius Maximus completed the defeat of the Allobroges and Arverni with another battle at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Isère. Bituitus and his son Congonnetiacus were taken as prisoners, paraded in a Roman triumphal procession, and held for the remainder of their lives at Alba Fucens in Italy. This conflict resulted in the annexation of southern France and its reconfiguration as the Roman province of Gallia Transalpina. The power of the Arverni was greatly reduced and they lost their hegemony in France in favor of their neighbors the Haedui, who were Roman allies. Celtic Europe - channel link (please share!): https://t.me/CelticEurope