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Ancient sources rarely mention Ireland at all. Tacitus remarks that the inhabitants were the same as those of Britain

Tacitus never said anything like that. I've no idea where you got that from. He says it's similar but not the same: as in Insular Celtic but Q Celtic and not P Celtic. Also, Agricola states the Irish are more savage than the Britons .

The first extensive description of Ireland was in "The Ecclesiastical History of the English People" (731), however this book makes no mention of the Gaels, except as "Britons." The first extensive description of the Gaels is probably in the Book of Leinster (12th century).

Bede never said that. The book directly mentions the Gaels and nowhere does it state they are Britons. Both Irish and other sources as far back as the Greeks mention the Gaels in Ireland. In fact Eire, the Gaelic name for Ireland, is mentioned by the Greeks in 300 BC.

Quote from the Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

At the present time, there are five languages in Britain, just as the divine law is written in five books, all devoted to seeking out and setting forth one and the same kind of wisdom, namely the knowledge of sublime truth and of true sublimity. These are the English, British, Irish, Pictish, as well as the Latin languages; through the study of the scriptures, Latin is in general use among them all. To begin with, the inhabitants of the island were all Britons, from whom it receives its name; they sailed to Britain, so it is said, from the land of Armorica, and appropriated to themselves the southern part of it. After they had got possession of the greater part of the island, beginning from the south, it is related that the Pictish race from Scythia sailed out into the ocean in a few warships and were carried by the wind beyond the furthest bounds of Britain, reaching Ireland and landing on its northern shores. There they found the Irish race and asked permission to settle among them but their request was refused.

Bede is talking about the Island of Britain. Here it's important to note that Scottish Gaelic use to be called Irish.

There is no convincing reason I know of to doubt the basic claim of the Gaels that they came first to Gadiz, where they built a base, and then to Brigantium in northwest Spain, then to southern Britain (Cornwall) and Ireland.

There is no evidence of the Gaels ever in Britain. The only evidence is from a few small islands off the coast of Ireland which are considered part of Britain today but back than belonged to Ireland. The Isle of Man and Anglly in Scotland being cut off from Britain were settled by the Gaels as opposed to the Britons as Angly had a natural border mountains cutting off any cultural links that might have formed with the rest of Britain so it got its cultural influence from Ireland as the Gaels from Ireland settled there. Same with the Isle of Man.

The Gaels claim to be the same as the Phoenicians, going from the Levant, to Egypt, to Crete, to Carthage, to Gadiz, to Brigantium, to the Scilly Islands, then throughout Britain. I see no reason to doubt this.

The Godiels were never in Britain.

No. Ireland, Britain and Gaul appear to be purely oral (non-literary) societies before Christian times. There are no "proto-Gaelic" peoples in Britain or Ireland because the Gaels are not autochthonous to those islands. They were invaders.

There is no evidence of any type of Celtic or Gaelic invasion in Ireland. No archaeological evidence or any type of evidence. It's suggested by historians that the Gaels and Britons are derived from the same origins and the culture coming here with the bronze age Beaker People. Around 2,500 BC. The Gaels settled in Eire and the Britons in Albion respectively.