 Connections with the greater Latin West brought the nations of Britain and Ireland into closer contact with the orthodoxy of the councils.The customs and traditions particular to Insular Christianity became a matter of dispute, especially the matter of the proper calculation of Easter.In addition to Easter dating, Irish scholars and cleric-scholars in continental Europe found themselves implicated in theological controversies but it is not always possible to distinguish when a controversy was based on matters of substance or on political grounds or xenophobic sentiments.