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1.4 Carving an ogam stone as depicted by the Scottish illustrator Stephen Reid in T.W. Rolleston, Myths and legends of the Celtic race in 1911.
have persistently ignored or given little weight to the language question. This ‘Celtoscepticism’ is encapsulated in the inventive titles of books such as The Celts: the construction of a myth (1992), The Atlantic Celts: ancient people or modern
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