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Picts in Ireland

I agree there was no Celtic invasion but I would say there was, not a huge, but a sizable migration. Surely if Celtic art etc. was imported it wouldn't all be copied are there would be art etc. finds for the same time of a very obviously different culture, the indigenous culture.
Can you tell me more about Edward Lhuyd?

Why do you believe that there was a sizeable migration? Where from and where to? Have archaeologists found changes in housing structures and burial customs that signal a change in population?

Edward Lluyd also spelled his name as Lhwyd. He was a Welsh scholar and patriot and became the Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. He studied the ancient languages of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany. He recognised that these languages had similarities and decided that that meant they were survivors of the ancient language of Gaul. Without being explicit, he announced that this group of languages was "Celtic" and published his views in 1707. No one know why Lluyd chose the name "Celtic".