Abstract
At the opening of the twenty-first century it was an established orthodoxy in books about ‘the pagan Celts’ that they celebrated their New Year at the feast known in Irish as Samhain, which later became All Saints’ Day, and that this was also their great annual commemoration of the dead. This belief can be traced to the influence of two eminent Victorian and Edwardian scholars, Sir John Rhys and Sir James Frazer, although the part regarding the New Year had older origins. This article is intended to consider this belief’s development and the evidence that those who expounded it provided to support it. The article will conclude by widening the investigation to consider whether any other sources may exist to give credence to the idea.
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