Welcome to the summary page for FabulousFusionFood's Celtic Nations recipes. This page provides links to all the recipes from the various Celtic nations presented on this site, with 1460 recipes in total.

Here each country in the Celtic Nations is listed with a collection of recipes from that country. Only a brief description of the country is given here. For a more detailed overview please use the links below to navigate to the full listing page for that country. Also, please note that only a maximum of 50 recipes is given for each country in the list given on this page. For the full recipes listing you need to navigate to the country's main page.

These recipes, for the major part, originate in Western Europe (apart from recipes in the Welsh colony in Patagonia).

The Celtic Nations or Celtic countries are a cultural area and collection of geographical regions in Northwestern Europe where the Celtic languages and cultural traits have survived.

The six regions widely considered Celtic countries in modern times are Brittany (Breizh), Cornwall (Kernow), Ireland (Éire), the Isle of Man (Mannin, or Ellan Vannin), Scotland (Alba), and Wales (Cymru). In each of these six regions a Celtic language is spoken to some extent: Brittonic or Brythonic languages are spoken in Brittany (Breton), Cornwall (Cornish), and Wales (Welsh), whilst Goidelic or Gaelic languages are spoken in Scotland (Scottish Gaelic), Ireland (Irish), and the Isle of Man (Manx).

Each of the six nations has its own Celtic language. In Brittany, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales these have been spoken continuously through time, while Cornwall and the Isle of Man have languages that were spoken into modern times but later died as spoken community languages.[9][10] In the latter two regions, however, language revitalisation movements have led to the adoption of these languages by adults and produced a number of native speakers.

Ireland, Wales, Brittany and Scotland contain areas where a Celtic language is used on a daily basis; in Ireland these areas are called the Gaeltacht; in Wales Y Fro Gymraeg, Breizh-Izel (Lower Brittany) in western Brittany and Breizh-Uhel (Upper Brittany) in eastern Brittany.[12] Generally these communities are in the west of their countries and in more isolated upland or island areas. Welsh, however, is much more widespread, with much of the north and west speaking it as a first language, or equally alongside English. Public signage is in dual languages throughout Wales and it is now a requirement to possess at least basic Welsh in order to be employed by the Welsh Government. The term Gàidhealtachd historically distinguished the Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland (the Highlands and islands) from the Lowland Scots (i.e. Anglo-Saxon-speaking) areas. More recently, this term has also been adopted as the Gaelic name of the Highland council area, which includes non-Gaelic speaking areas. Hence, more specific terms such as sgìre Ghàidhlig ('Gaelic-speaking area') are now used.

The Celtic languages form a branch of the greater Indo-European language family. SIL Ethnologue lists six living Celtic languages, of which four have retained a substantial number of native speakers. These are the Goidelic languages (i.e. Irish and Scottish Gaelic, which are both descended from Middle Irish) and the Brittonic (Brythonic) languages (i.e. Welsh and Breton, which are both descended from Common Brittonic).

These areas of Europe are sometimes referred to as the 'Celt belt' or 'Celtic fringe' because of their location generally on the western edges of the continent, and of the states they inhabit (e.g. Brittany is in the northwest of France, Cornwall is in the south west of Great Britain, Wales in western Great Britain and the Gaelic-speaking parts of Ireland and Scotland are in the west of those countries). Additionally, this region is known as the 'Celtic Crescent' because of the near crescent shaped position of the nations in Europe.

The Celtic Nations

Arms	Flag	Name of Territory	Capital	Name in Official Language(s)
		Brittany	Rennes (Prefecture)	Breiz (Breton)/Bretagne (French)/Bertaèyn/Bertègn (Gallo)
		Cornwall	Truro	Cornwall
		Republic of Ireland	Dublin	Éire
		Northern Ireland	Belfast	Tuaisceart Éireann
		Isle of Man	Douglas	Mannin
		Scotlland	Edinburgh	Alba
		Wales	Caerdydd/Cardiff	Cymru