Yes, if you didn't know. Celtic is officially dead. In fact it was dead long before the Irish Free State began its attempt to create a distinct Irish culture to distance itself from the British. Well, that is according to a retired American linguist anyway. Read the blog post here:
http://thelanguageguy.blogspot.com/2007/02/reviving-dead-languages.html This is taken from his 'About Me':
" Language Guy
Location: Columbus, Ohio, US
After receiving a B. A. in Philosophy from Rice University, I moved on to M.I.T., where I got my Ph. D. in Theoretical Linguistics. I worked at the University of Illinois for five years and then left to teach and do research at The Ohio State University until I retired in 1995."
Main Blog Website:
http://thelanguageguy.blogspot.com/ Amazingly unbelievable when you consider this guy has a Ph. D. in linguistics!!!!