ST PATRICK CHAPTER ! the irish celts HE Celtic branch of the Indo-Germanic family was scattered over the west of Europe, and settled chiefly in the British Isles and in Gaul. The Celts of Great Britain formed two branches, the Irish or Gadellan branch and the Breton Sranch, to which belonged the Welsh and Bretons of French Armorica. Although Roman writers give us some information concerning the customs of the people in Gaul, the character and life of the Christian Celts are scarcely known to us, except from Irish literature. This literature dates from the Christian era, and therefore contains nothing of purely Celtic mythology. Religious legends are founded on classic and Christian traditions and also on historic memoirs peculiar to Ireland, but it is easy to separate these three elements. We know, too, that Christianity as established in Ireland by St Patrick caused no revolution in its public customs or in its political and economic traditions. The life of an IrishmanTable of...

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