While there has been evidence that humans have inhabited the island of Ireland for many thousands of years, the dominant culture of the island since roughly 800 to 400 BCE has been that of the Celts, an ethnolinguistic group that at one time existed across all of western Europe but is now primarily known as the broad ethnic and (nearly extinct) linguistic category of the Scots, the Bretons, the Manx, the western Cornish and the aforementioned Irish, the biggest of the modern Celtic cultures, with about 5.5 million people on the island itself and a further 2 – 100 million people in the Irish diaspora depending on the precision of one’s definition.
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While there has been evidence that humans have inhabited the island of Ireland for many thousands of years, the dominant culture of the island since roughly 800 to 400 BCE has been that of the Celts, an ethnolinguistic group that at one time existed across all of western Europe but is now primarily known as the broad ethnic and (nearly extinct) linguistic category of the Scots, the Bretons, the Manx, the western Cornish and the aforementioned Irish, the biggest of the modern Celtic cultures, with about 5.5 million people on the island itself and a further 2 – 100 million people in the Irish diaspora depending on the precision of one’s definition.