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Are there any parts of ancient Druidism that have been incorporated into modern Irish culture/tradition?

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Ancient as in pre-Christian.

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  1. What we call Druidism today is directly related to an 17th and 18th century romantic movement.

    "To all likelihood, the Druid Revival was just that: a few people taking an interest in Britain’s ancient past. But the Ancient Order of Druids (AOD) has claimed that both Aubrey and Toland held a gathering of Druids from all over Britain and Ireland in a London tavern on June 24, 1717, ...All the evidence suggests that the meeting was a later invention"

    http://www.philipcoppens.com/celtic_lond...

    "... now known that he had composed the `ancient` manuscripts himself, while he was imprisoned for debt after a business enterprise failed. The fraud was only uncovered 150 years after his death, when an inquisitive scholar looked through Iolo`s manuscripts and found draft versions of most of the supposedly medieval documents written in Iolo`s own hand. "

    http://www.philipcoppens.com/celtic_lond...


  2. Undoubtedly there are; but it would be difficult at this point to figure out what they are, because there has been no consistent historical record to refer to.

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