PaddyMac: Thanks for the explanation. Its problem - apart from the general deficiency of the 'C' word, even when applied to Ireland - is that it most (by area, say) of what is now England does not qualify (by any stretch of any argument) as Celtic. And Scotland and Wales are not islands, nor (slighly arguable, some say) Brittany.

BTW no intention on my part to be "hairy" and I do accept your "complaint" about everything being subsumed into "Britain" or "England" - I just see your "solution" as being as bad as the original problem.

G.