How similar was culture of ancient Ireland to that of Gaul?

How similar was culture of ancient Ireland to that of Gaul?

Apparently the Irish word for foreigner is derived from "Gaul".

gauls were such alphas holy shit

I was under the impression that Gael was a cognate of Gaul/Gal.

>Get's beaten by a bunch of brown manlets

The romans feared the gallic tribes. They were described as much taller, well built and barrel chested and even more savage than the germanic tribes

rome would of beat the germanics too had there not been so much political intrigue during the time. Their organisation was unbeatable.

But hey, its not like the Gauls didnt sack rome more than once?

Gael comes from Welsh, can't remember the original word but it basically meant "hill people", sorta implying a backwoods uncultured way (like hillbilly basically)

Probably not too much. The Irish go a while in the Early Iron Age without any influence from Britain or the Continent (no La Téne etc. -- the early iron object were pretty much copies of Bronze Age stuff in the new metal) until about 300BC, and even then not as much La Téne as Britain. They also spoke a different language, Q-Celtic, rather than P-Celtic like the Britons or Gauls (they'd be related but distinct languages). The Irish and the Gauls would certainly be closer than the Irish and the Romans or Germans, but it'd still be fairly easy for other ancient peoples to readily tell the difference between the two

Actually the romans considered the germanic peoples to be more fearsome and the celts also feared their germanic neighbors.

WE WUZ GAULS

It means "wild". We could only speculate as to why.

>They also spoke a different language, Q-Celtic, rather than P-Celtic like the Britons or Gauls (they'd be related but distinct languages)
P-Celtic and Q-Celtic probably aren't phylogenetic a thing. Insular Celtic languages share much of the same developments, VSO, consonant mutations, vowel affection, etc. The language that would become Irish was probably brought to Ireland by Britons fleeing the Roman conquest and sometime after that /kʷ/ shifted to /p/ in British Celtic.

What is your evidence for this?

Somali word for infidel is Gaul.

English word for "boyfucker" and "goatfucker" is "Arab".

Short answer is that we really don't know enough to say.

By the time reliable accounts were written, Ireland was already a romanized and christianized culture (or at least had been heavily affected by their neighbors, so we can only speculate based on what we know of surrounding regions at the time, archeological artifacts, and surviving traditions

The largest pederasty ring in England was by two native Englishmen so that seems rather fallacious, man.

>Gael comes from Welsh, can't remember the original word but it basically meant "hill people", sorta implying a backwoods uncultured way (like hillbilly basically)

>It means "wild". We could only speculate as to why.

That's just a theory, and I think it's an unlikely one. It seems like wishful thinking and an attempt to draw a link between "Gael" and "Fian"

>How similar was culture of ancient Ireland to that of Gaul?
Is there anything in particular you want to know?

The Irish were more similar to the Britons than the Gauls but there were definitely strong similarities between Ireland and Gaul. In general Gaul would have been more urbanised and more integrated into trade networks. In short, more "advanced"

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>Something that never happened

The Romans have only described them as being taller than the Celts, but not stronger or more built.

In the classical era it was a topos (read: meme) to describe peoples from Europe not living around the mediterranean as unclean and uncivilized but hardy, tall, faired haired/skineed with strong traditions.