Mum was 100% Irish , and I've got Scottish on Pop's a bit too .. Celtic music always seems "natural " to me
No wonder Celtic seems natural to you!
You probably already know this...what's now Scotland was the home of the Picts (another Celtic group) until the 800s AD. But why not take this opportunity to have a history lesson?
The tribe the Romans called
Scotti originally lived in Ireland, but formed a successful raiding colony in Pictland (now called Scotland) late in Romano-British times. So the Scots were Irish.
This eventually gets confusing, but don't worry - it was the Dark Ages - no one was reading and writing except monks.
So you can't be all
that right or wrong about the history; no one actually remembers much of it, and they have to reconstruct it from archeology, linguistics, etc.
All that stuff can be misinterpreted.
"What about The Venerable Bede? Maybe he can shed some light on this."
"You can ask him. Hold a seance. Here's the Ouija Board. He was more interested in ecclesiastical history, but he touches on lots of Dark Age stuff.
Anyway, we know the Picts merged their kingdoms with the Scotti kingdom in the 800s AD. Not that I remember how we know that. But everyone who's anyone in history seems to agree with it. So there's that.
"Maybe they were on a space ship and the captain said, 'Beam me to Pictland, Scotti'."
"Uh, sure."
The merger could have been at the point of a sword, or it could be that the Picts just wanted to learn to play the bagpipes - after all, this was before The Beatles lived in Northern England, and there wasn't much music around.
"The Beatles were probably around in the 800s. I mean, Paul McCartney is pretty long in the tooth."
"Uh, sure."
Well they do call the place Scotland now, so there's gotta be a reason why. Personally, I think the Picts basically said, "Hey, if you want to live here, it's all yours. We're not even putting up a fight. You're welcome to change the name of the country from Pictland to Scotland, and no one will bother you as long as you stay above the Firth of Forth. We, on the other hand, are moving to California."
Unfortunately, they couldn't find California or anyplace else, because the Compass hadn't been invented, and travel was a bit 'iffy', so they got lost and had to turn around and go back to what became Scotland.
No one knows for sure how they found their way home, but bagpipes are pretty loud and the sound carries for a long way. So maybe that's how.
End of history lesson.
"This has nothing to do with guitars."
"And everything to do with bagpipes. But at least they didn't play accordions."
"They do now. They have parades of accordion bands."
"Well, the accordion was a 19th century invention, so they probably didn't have accordions in 800."
