Ask the archeologist and his cousin the anthropologist and no doubt he or she or they, will be able to tell you in a language garnered from the halls of higher learning, just how and when the Celts arrived on the shores of Ireland. And standing there in the middle of a mucky field just a few miles outside the town of Ballymena with a gentle rain falling on our umbrellas. The archeologist will proudly point to a hole in the ground and most likely recite the latest results of the carbon dating test on a particular item found at that particular level down there in this particular hole in the ground.
Lets go into one of the local pubs.
The one man who is knowledgeable enough to hold court in a bar room confessional. It'll cost us a round of drinks mind you, but I'm sure the answer just might be a little bit different. And served up in a much more pleasant atmosphere too. Ah well you see it was all a very, very long time ago, ah sure it was away back in the mists of time so to speak. Well being a pretty smart father that he was, and knowing his own sons.