Celts Seen as Muslims and Muslims Seen by Celts in Medieval Literature

Abstract

T he contemporary Irish-language poet Michael Davitt, in his poem “Ó Mo Bheirt Phailistíneach” (“O My Two Palestinians”), describes how, on “18/9/82, having watched a news report on the massacre of Palestinians in Beirut,” he went upstairs and looked at his own sleeping children, visualizing them as corpses, “mo bheirt Phailistíneach ag lob-hadh sa teas lárnach (my two Palestinians rotting in the central heat).” 1 This example typifies the sympathy that modern Celtic-language writers have for oppressed, marginalized, or misunderstood cultures throughout the world; as Grahame Davies observes, “many culturally-active Welsh speakers… have an acute consciousness of their political status as members of a minority culture” and “seem noticeably anxious to be affirmative and non-critical of non-English-speaking cultures—not just specifically Muslim ones—possibly partly as a generalized rebuke to perceived Anglo-American cultural imperialism.” 2 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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