Not quite, the Celts (and Picts) were inhabiting these Islands before the Roman invasion. Successive invasions by the Saxons, Vikings and Normans pushed most of the Celts to the fringes, Ireland, Wales, Scottish Highlands and Cornwall, and there's been a lot of moving to and fro since.
Glasgow Celtic football club's supporters are made up primarily of those Glaswegians whose ancestors emigrated to from Ireland during the potato famine, as opposed to the protestant supporters of Glasgow Rangers.
Here's a song completely unrelated, and the spawn of a particularly bad joke. What sound does a disco cat make? Meeyowsah, yowsah, yowsah.
This dance appears to be more a combination of Irish dancing and flamenco than anything else.
While most of the steps are straight from Irish dancing, a lot of the arm movements are reminiscent of flamenco, rather than from Irish and/or Scottish dancing, both of which have quite restrictive arm movement.
There's quite a crossover between the music of northern Spain and Irish/Celtic music. Carlos Nunez is known as a Spanish/Celtic musician:
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Sun 27 Jul, 2014 01:49 pm
Carlos Nunez was at last year's Summer Arts Weekend in Boston.
He is Galician and an amazing musician!
He put on a great show and on his last number combined with some
Scottish pipers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4oyiq4gBNw
