Tiocfaidh ár lá: introduction to the special issue

Abstract

To many, perhaps to most people outside the company of the great scholars, past and present, 'Celtic' of any sort is…a magic bag, into which anything may be put, and out of which anything may come. Anything is possible in the fabulous Celtic twilight. (J.R.R. Tolkien, 1963, quoted in Kent, 2002).