Ancient Ireland

thumb|A reconstructed crannog near Kenmore, Perth and Kinross, on [[Loch Tay, Scotland]]

pre-6th century Goidelic Celtic language of Ireland and Britain

thumb|Ireland (Ἰέρνην) in Strabo's Geographica, from an 11th century manuscript. thumb|right|Color depth#Truecolor|True-colour satellite image of Ireland

historical and partly-current method of government on the island of Ireland

Scoti or Scotti is a Latin name for the Gaels, first attested in the late 3rd century. It originally referred to all Gaels, first those in Ireland and then those who had settled in Great Britain as well; it later came to refer only to Gaels in northern Britain. The kingdom to which their culture spread became known as Scotia or Scotland, and eventually its inhabitants came to be known as Scots.

Gaelic political and social order that existed in Ireland from the prehistoric era until the early 17th century

archaeological site in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK

The fili (or filè) (), plural filid, filidh (or filès), was a member of an elite class of poets in Ireland, and later Scotland, up until the Renaissance. The filid were believed to have the power of divination, and therefore able to foresee, foretell and predict important events.

Irish dynasty

thumb|upright=1.4|A map of the divisions of Roman Britain with the Scoti shown as a tribal grouping in the north of Ireland Scotia is a Latin placename derived from Scoti, a Latin name for the Gaels, first attested in the late 3rd century. The Romans referred to Ireland as "Scotia" around 500 A.D. From the 9th century on, its meaning gradually shifted, so that it came to mean only the part of Britain lying north of the Firth of Forth: the Kingdom of Alba. By the later Middle Ages it had become the fixed Latin term for what in English is called Scotland.

Historical social relations between Ireland and ancient Rome

' () or ' (in Welsh, pronounced ) was a board game popular among the ancient Celts. Fidchell was played between two people who moved an equal number of pieces across a board; the board shared its name with the game played upon it. Based on the descriptions in Irish and Welsh literature as well as archaeological finds of game pieces, it is likely to have been a variant of ludus latrunculorum played in Ireland and Britain.

The Déisi were a social class in Ireland between the ancient and early medieval period. The various peoples listed under the heading déis shared a similar status in Gaelic Ireland, and had little or no actual kinship, though they were often thought of as genetically related. During the era of Roman rule in Britain, many members of the Déisi were recorded as settling in western British coastal areas (especially the areas known later as Wales, Cornwall and Devon).

thumb|View from Loughshinny of Drumanagh with its [[Martello Tower]] Drumanagh () is a headland near the village of Loughshinny, in the north east of County Dublin, Ireland. It features an early 19th-century Martello tower and a large (200,000 m2) Iron Age promontory fort which has produced Roman artefacts.