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<blockquote data-quote="Phlebas" data-source="post: 3957393" data-attributes="member: 23810">Learn something new every day. 'course if there wasn't the extra 'r' in the original post then my wiki trawl would have answered the question for me&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> It does kind of lead to the conclusion that scotland as a nation just wasn't large / rich enough to compete with the major powers without the alliance / union with England. If the expedition had been launched as anglo-scot, then the support of the Caribbean colonies might have made the difference and the canal could now be in Commonwealth hands!So getting back to the OP, i'd say you'd have to have a British Isles Celtonia to be large enough to survive as distinctly celtic, or you would just end up with modern day Ireland / Scotland which is 'western with a hint of bagpipes'</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Phlebas, post: 3957393, member: 23810"] Learn something new every day. 'course if there wasn't the extra 'r' in the original post then my wiki trawl would have answered the question for me :D It does kind of lead to the conclusion that scotland as a nation just wasn't large / rich enough to compete with the major powers without the alliance / union with England. If the expedition had been launched as anglo-scot, then the support of the Caribbean colonies might have made the difference and the canal could now be in Commonwealth hands! So getting back to the OP, i'd say you'd have to have a British Isles Celtonia to be large enough to survive as distinctly celtic, or you would just end up with modern day Ireland / Scotland which is 'western with a hint of bagpipes' [/QUOTE]

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