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So What About the Irish?

The Greeks called Ireland the "Sacred Isle" and "Ogygia." "Nor can any one," says Camden, "conceive why they should call it Ogygia, unless, perhaps, for its antiquity; for the Greeks called nothing Ogygia unless what was extremely ancient" - Ignatius Donnelly (Atlantis: the Antediluvian World, 1882)

Put the most erudite wordsmiths onto the job and, at the end of their industry, the nature of the Irish will remain mysterious. The question of Irishness is a subject that will not be broached here by this author. The Irish are what they are, complex and contradictory, living upon a land soaked in the blood of its children. Ireland's green meadows entomb the world's greatest kings and poets. They lie in a temple without walls, in a natural cathedral that has been, in times past, the home of men and women who knew the nature of all things. The finest musicians, healers, philosophers, poets, and rebels have walked its hills and valleys and stood upon its wild remote cliffs. It is a country that has given birth to inspired champions of political and social freedom, and to the oldest civilization on Earth.

These days we are a long way from the time when an Irishman's status and merit among his people came from his ability to compose poetry or play laments. A long way. The Irish are a raped people, a hurt people, and they have grown hard because of the inconceivable suffering they have endured throughout the cruel ages. Most Irishmen are backward looking and we see this idiosyncrasy as rather appropriate given the gravity of what has occurred on their land through time. Not that most Irishmen are aware of the facts concerning their turbulent history. Unfortunately, the desecration of Ireland extends to human memory as well as to history. But again, our investigation focuses not on the modern Irish, but on their ancestors. We are concerned with what the Irish were.

There has been maintained a smoke screen around Ireland since the English invasion and the consequent looting of the island with the destruction of her sacred shrines, which was meant to obscure her great past and her contribution in letters, science, culture, true religion, and civilization. It goes without saying that we owe more to ancient Ireland (Eire) for these blessings than to any other people or nation - Conor MacDari

Far from these ancestral Britons having been mere painted savages, roaming wild in the woods as we are imaginatively told in most of the modern histories, they are now, on the contrary, disclosed by newly found historical facts given by Professor Waddell, known to have been, from the very first grounding of their galley keels upon these shores, over a millennium and a half before the Christian era, a highly civilized and literate race, pioneers of civilization - Isabel Hill Elder (Celt, Druid, and Culdee, 1962)

There is no evidence whatsoever to support the myth that the pre-Roman British were savages or barbarians...who could equal the Romans themselves for savage lust and blood-thirstiness as witnessed in the butcheries of the Roman Coliseum, where thousands of people, Christians and prisoners of war, were thrown to wild beasts to feast the eyes of Roman youths and maidens. Those were "cultured" Romans of the "Classical Age," of which our educators rave. No evidence like that can ever be brought against the ancient British. England, the mother of liberty never saw any barbarities until the Roman persecutions...under Diocletian about 300 AD...A mob of untrained savages could not have held their ground against the Roman legions under Caesar himself, as the records of Caesar's two failures to invade Britain bear witness - Fredrick Haberman (Tracing Our Ancestors)

One of the great travesties of modern times is the indifference shown by the average Irishman to his own country's illustrious past. Those who come to browse the subject may be fooled into thinking that Wales, and not Ireland, was the original seat of Druidry. Most Welshmen would not contradict this false notion and most Irishmen would not be inclined to refute it. Sadly, few Irishmen would be able educate the curious investigator and remind them that the civilizations of Ireland far predate those of Wales.

It is hard upon Ireland that her Druids should have been so long neglected, and the honours of mystic wisdom become the sole possession of Wales. It is true, however, that the Irish have been less eager about their ancestral glory in that aspect, and have not put forward, as the Welsh have done, a Neo-Druidism to revive the reputation of the ancient Order. But Ireland had its Druids, and traditionary lore testifies that country in the acknowledgment of those magi or philosophers. The Welsh have a great advantage over the Irish in the reputed possession of a literature termed Druidical. They assume to know who the Druids were, and what they taught, by certain writings conveying the secret information. The Irish do not even pretend to any such knowledge of their Druids. The Welsh, therefore, look down with pity upon their insular neighbours, and plume themselves on being the sole successors of a people who were under true Druidical teaching, and whose transmitted records reveal those mysteries - James Bonwick (Irish Druids and Old Irish Religions, 1894)

Historians and investigators who foam at the mouth to discover a pharaoh's humble grave in Ireland, or a mummified ape in Northern Ireland, or an Egyptian string of beads in a pit, need to begin getting their minds around the Irish origins of civilization. Such a notion would not only put to shame their relatively paltry discoveries but would compel them to realize the magnitude of the deception that exists, as well as the utter insidiousness of those purveyors of the lies that have laid siege to the truth. Man traveled from East to West: Such is the accepted and endlessly repeated dogma first disseminated by Caesar and Roman "historians." Culture spread Westward from the Levant. So have most people been conditioned to believe. And yet, it still comes as a shock to most people when headlines report that Egyptian artifacts have been found at remote regions of the Emerald Isle.

Investigators throw up their hands and papers go flying. How could Easterners have traveled across the sea in boats they were not meant to have had? How and why did they navigate the seas and oceans and go to such places, live and die there, and leave their remains behind? Such questions, concerning the East to West movement, apparently still puzzle those who have a limited understanding of the past and of the relationships between ancient nations. The fact that Egyptian relics have been found in Ireland, that Nordic runes exist in Bosnia, that Irish structures (such as the Ohio Serpent Mound and Round Towers) are found in the Americas, or that the Japanese Ainu and American Algonquin languages are obviously derived from Irish, does not spur the average academic or individual to question what he has been told and what he has learned. No! The textbooks don't mention any of it and the professors and "experts" on TV ridicule such ideas. Ergo, they must not be true. The sane person constantly analyses the world of reality and then changes what’s inside his or her head to fit the facts. That’s an awful lot of trouble for most people. Besides, how many people want to constantly change their opinions to fit the facts? It’s a whole lot easier to change the facts to fit your opinions. Unsane people make up their minds and they find the facts to “verify” their opinions. Or even more commonly, they accept the opinion of the nearest “expert” and then they don’t have to bother about the facts at all - Jack Trout (Positioning: The Battle For Your Mind)
		Irish sun crosses clearly based on the zodiac and four cardinal points. The cross and concept of a solar Christ long predate Christianity

It is our belief that we are not meant to look back to prehistoric times because of what will be discovered. We are not to look to prehistory, to Atlantis, Lemuria, and the ante-diluvian epochs. We are certainly not supposed to look to the North-West for the origins of culture and civilization. We are only supposed to look Eastward even though the hard evidence for the Eastern origins of civilization is pitifully scarce to say the least. Yes, great structures such as the Giza Pyramid stand upon Egyptian soil, but the structure bears no hieroglyphs and has no dead Egyptian inside. Moreover, the vast majority of the "tombs" of Egypt were plundered not by poor scoundrels, as we are told, but by very rich and powerful ones from Rome hoping to occlude the facts concerning the origins of their architects. The demagogues of religion, this Roman (Atonist) priestarchy, own and control Ireland, the land they have long raped and humbled. Let there be no doubt about it.
 

There they sit controlling the schools, universities, media-networks, and minds of their "flock," hiding behind their various churches, seminaries, and "charities," making sure that no evidence or teaching comes to light that exposes them for the villains they are. No, we are not to look to the West. We are told to look only to the East for our answers. Any other kind of study or research is considered meaningless, useless, and even taboo. The vast majority of scholars, including most of the world's well-meaning revisionists, habitually look to the Middle-East and to officially accepted dates when composing their various intriguing theories. But what if culture and civilization did not originate in the Middle-East? What happens if the origins of all that we know, see, and read about when it comes to religion, technology, culture, and symbolism, etc, began in Ireland by way of the lost continents of old. What if the high civilization of Egypt did not originate in Egypt but further West, from the place known to Egyptians as the "sacred land of the setting sun?" Well, this was the theory expounded by the maverick scholars and alternative historians Anna Wilkes, Conor MacDari, and Comyns Beaumont. But we ask again, what would happen to our conception of history if we understood these aforementioned Eastward migrations to be a second and later wave coming after previous migrations into Southern and Eastern lands from the North-West? Does this idea not turn history, as we know it, upside-down? It does. And such a theory will upset most readers and researchers brought up on the fallacies concocted for them by the world's perfidious academic authorities. However, the same theories that unsettle the conformist mind inspires and liberates those who have always distrusted the official staples. Extremist revisionists, such as this writer, are more than suspicious of any theory disseminated by official sources. We distrust such theories on sight. The very fact that they are official, widely disseminated and accepted is, in our estimation, proof of their invalidity. As we approach the end of the "Piscean Age" of deception we know that such fallacies and lies will be exposed in favor of the Truth.

Elizabeth Tudor - The Queen of England who suppressed Irish culture by expressly forbidding Irish traditional modes such as poetry, music, and the Gaelic language. This suppression was age old. After the initial conquest of Ireland, the bards were methodically tracked down and murdered. The bards preserved the knowledge of the lineage of all Irish kings and nobles. Their annihilation ensured that the Irish nobility were gradually divorced from their ancient traditions. This deliberate campaign of suppression was well documented. Additionally, the Vatican forbade travel to the West in order to ensure that the existence of Ireland  and the presence and teachings of the Druids remained unknown

One of the first revisionist historians to offer forth theories on the Western origins of civilization was Conor MacDari. In books published during the early part of the twentieth century, he wrote:

To mar this sublime Pillar, this grand masterpiece of the Irish...was a part of a plot as selfish as any ever conceived. It was conceived and put into effect by the ruling spirits at the head of the Roman Catholic Church and State of their day, who cherished the ambitious and far-reaching idea of nothing less than universal rule for their Catholic Church - Conor MacDari

The story of the Roman Church is quite different and not a pleasant one to dwell upon. She made her advance through the medium of intrigue, war, fire and sword, persecution, torture, confiscations, and death, the exemplification of force and intolerance. By such means she gained control and increase in power and the Irish Church missionaries were gradually forced to withdraw from the continent. It was only by such forcible means that she could make gains against the Irish Church whose representatives surpassed hers in every field of peaceful endeavor...in learning, the sciences, philosophy and spiritual culture - Conor MacDari (The Bible: An Irish Book)

		Expert on Vatican intrigue, the great Avro Manhattan, detailed in his fine works how the Roman church had obscured the legacy of the ancient Irish. Through their agents, such as Oliver Cromwell, they commissioned the burning, looting, and wholesale destruction of the evidence that revealed what had been. There was to be no threat or hindrance to their advance toward world domination. That the Christian church had been born in Ireland, and that its devious hierarchs had appropriated their canon from the Irish Druids, were facts to be buried and hidden forever. On the subject of Ireland's desecration, Baron Manhattan wrote: Pagan temples were either closed, transformed into Christian shrines or demolished. Their properties were summarily added to the Church's patrimony. The wealth of sundry religions were mercilessly expropriated, their clergy dismissed or persecuted, when not civilly or even physically obliterated - (Vatican Billions) Once their "scorched earth" policy proved successful, the hierarchs of Rome could sit back and breathe easy. Their loyal lieutenants (the Jesuits) would rule Ireland in their name and the last remnants of the ancient stellar church would fade from the historical record and from the minds of men.
Baron Avro Manhattan (1940-1990): The Anti-Fascist author and expert on the Jesuit Order. His books reveal the full extent of Papist world tyranny

After Christians had spent years destroying books and libraries, St. John Chrysostom, the pre-eminent Greek Father of the Church, proudly declared, "Every trace of the old philosophy and literature of the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth - Helen Ellerbe (The Dark Side of Christian History)

From the sixth century AD onward the Christian monks of Ireland had set about obscuring the truth concerning the civilizations of the West. If we are in ignorance about the true history of the world, and particularly about the role of Britain and Ireland in world affairs, it is due entirely to the devices and designs of the Roman Church and the more secretive ancient organization that has used Judeo-Christianity as its front from the beginning.

If they (the Christians) hear of a place with something worth raping away, they immediately claim that someone is making sacrifices there and committing abominations, and pay the place a visit - you can see them scurrying there, these guardians of good order (for that is what they call themselves), these brigands, if brigands is not too mild a word; for brigands at least try to conceal what they have done: if you call them brigands, they are outraged, but these people, on the contrary, show pride in their exploits...they believe they deserve reward - (Protest to Rome, written in AD 386, from the book The Death of Classical Paganism)

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Atlantis and Ireland

...the generally accepted history of ancient times, such as is found on the shelves of our libraries and taught in our schools, is mostly fiction, made up of fables and myths cleverly composed into histories so nicely as to lull all suspicion in the mind of the reader or student as to the fraudulent character of it. Some wonderfully clever writers have been led astray by these deceptions of "history" - Conor MacDari

The official consensus is that approximately 7,000 years ago the ancestors of Irish "Celts" broke off from dispersing and migrating Indo-European tribes that originated in the Ukrainian steppes of Russia, and that may have been descendants of the Kurgans of that region. Although they were racially kindred with the early Romans, Greeks, and Germans, the various "Celtic" groups gradually formed their own separate identities and traditions. This theory was apparently strengthened after the discovery of stunningly sophisticated burial sites at Hallstatt in Austria and La Tene in Switzerland, constructed approximately 3,500 years ago. Old as they are, the civilizations revealed at Hallstatt and La Tene were related to Brythonic Celtic groups only and not, as was falsely implied, with those that frequented Ireland. Clearly, an earlier and more illustrious race or tribe was responsible for the prehistoric sites found throughout Ireland.

With regard to the La Tène civilization, certain archeologists and historians have made a mistake which must be corrected. The Celts have been the subject of a false argument in archaeology similar to those committed with regard to them in anthropology. Such indications as we possess have been given a too general significance, and they have been taken to mean that the La Tène civilization and the Celts were one and the same thing. One school has in this way abbreviated the history of the Celts in Ireland in the most misleading way, making it begin with the earliest La Tène objects found in the island. It is necessary here, at the outset, to state…that the civilization of La Tène really corresponds to only one of the groups of the Celts, who had split up long before the fifth century before Christ. It is the culture of the Continental Brythons, who afterwards became leaders of the other groups. It is not that of the Goidels of Ireland - M. R. Dobie (The Rise of the Celts)

...the Celts enter history from around 600 BC, they are already split into several language groups, and spread over much of Central Europe, the Iberian peninsula, Ireland and Britain, and studies now suggest that some of the Celtic peoples - including the ancestors of all the modern Celtic nations - had a largely pre-Celtic genetic ancestry, shared with the Basque people and possibly going back to the Paleolithic - (Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia)

The orthodox view of the origins of the Celts turns out to be an archaeological myth left over from the 19th century. Over the past 200 years, a myth has grown up of the Celts as a vast, culturally sophisticated but warlike people from central Europe, north of the Alps and the Danube, who invaded most of Europe, including the British Isles, during the iron age, around 300 BC...Many archaeologists still hold this view of a grand iron-age Celtic culture in the centre of the continent, which shrank to a western rump after Roman times. It is also the basis of a strong sense of ethnic identity that millions of members of the so-called Celtic diaspora hold. But there is absolutely no evidence, linguistic, archaeological or genetic, that identifies the Hallstatt or La Tène regions or cultures as Celtic homelands. The notion derives from a mistake made by the historian Herodotus 2,500 years ago when, in a passing remark about the "Keltoi," he placed them at the source of the Danube, which he thought was near the Pyrenees. Everything else about his description located the Keltoi in the region of Iberia - Stephen Oppenheimer (The Origins of the British: A Genetic Detective Story)

Despite the consensus of orthodox anthropologists, the fact is that neither the Irish nor their Druidic Elders descended from the Kurgans or early Ukrainian hunter-gatherers. They did not, as most stubborn historians and commentators believe, hail from the Steppes of Russia, Harz Mountains, Balkans, or Danube Valley. Their origins are to be found exactly where their own legends state, in the ancient civilizations that existed and thrived before recorded history. The vast majority of intellectuals and academics pay little mind to such times and places and, despite the plethora of archaeological evidence clearly proving the existence of pre-diluvian civilizations, they continue like amnesiacs to seek for answers where they are never to be found.

The myths and legends of our ancestors were composed by people whose world was anything but stable and unchanging. The world they knew had been visited by disasters of inconceivable proportions. Even in relatively recent times volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, earthquakes, tornados, and similar natural occurrences have devastated landmasses and annihilated countless thousands of lives.

We have seen worlds in flames, and have felt a comet strike the earth. We have seen the whole coast of South America lifted up bodily ten or fifteen feet and let down again in an hour. We have seen the Andes sink 220 feet in seventy years...Vast transpositions have taken place in the coast-line of China. The ancient capital, located, in all probability, in an accessible position near the centre of the empire, has now become nearly surrounded by water, and its site is on the peninsula of Corea...There was a time when the rocky barriers of the Thracian Bosphorus gave way and the Black Sea subsided. It had covered a vast area in the north and east. Now this area became drained, and was known as the ancient Lectonia: it is now the prairie region of Russia, and the granary of Europe - Professor Winchell (The Preadamites)

There is ample geological evidence that at one time the entire area of Great Britain was submerged to the depth of at least seventeen hundred feet. Over the face of the submerged land was strewn thick beds of sand, gravel, and clay, termed by geologists "the Northern Drift." The British Islands rose again from the sea, bearing these water-deposits on their bosom. What is now Sicily once lay deep beneath the sea...subsequently rose 3000 feet above the sea-level. The Desert of Sahara was once under water, and its now burning sands are a deposit of the sea - Ignatius Donnelly (Atlantis: The AnteDiluvian World)

Research since the 1970s suggests that there were three global super-floods: 15,000 to 14,000 years ago; 12,000 to 11,000 years ago; and 8,000 to 7,000 years ago. The second period ties in with the date Plato ascribed in the Timaeus and Critias to the destruction by earthquakes and flooding of Atlantis, and with the Tamil myth of the submerging of the fabled land of Kumari Kandam. There is also strong evidence that nearly half the total meltwater released at the end of the last Ice Age was concentrated into these three relatively short periods. Such events would have had a momentous impact on the human inhabitants at that time, leaving a marked impression on oral tradition, the original transmitter of all ancient myths - Harry Young (Bridging the Myth and Science of the Flood)

The ancient civilization of the land we call Egypt has been pronounced by archaeologists as flawless of its type from the very first. It reveals none of the painful steps from primeval beginnings passing through the Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age, to that of Iron. It apparently burst upon the scene into exotic radiance, its perfected civilization accordingly having been described as a miracle. Science cannot admit any such miracle and another explanation must be forthcoming - Comyns Beaumont (The Riddle of Prehistoric Britain)

One interesting indication concerns the Egyptian rock-cut tumuli; with their various compartments, and the dolmen-passage tombs or long-chambered barrows of Britain, Brittany, Scandinavia, Portugal, and South-West France. If both types were derived from one original source, as generally accepted today, it follows that those of the North and West, more primitive constructions than the mastabas...must have preceded them. It would be manifestly absurd to argue that mastabas, perfected as they were, would be taken to the West in a far ruder and more primitive form. Thus the inference must be that the mastabas are a development of the earlier chambered barrows from the West and North - ibid

After detailed studies into antiquity Beaumont, like a few other brave alternative historians, was convinced that great civilizations of the past had been entirely decimated in some kind of universal upheaval of unimaginable proportions. It was, they conjectured, the survivors from a ruined world who transmitted the elements of civilization into the new world that arose from the ashes of the old. Since the survivors of the pre-diluvian empires had been displaced to various parts of the globe, we find the strikingly similar cultural elements appearing in every hemisphere. Suggestively, in many cases, we also find the earliest elements to be more sophisticated than later variants.

All we can see with certainty is that the earliest inventions of mankind are the most wonderful that the race has ever made...The first use of fire, and the discovery of the methods by which it can be kindled; the domestication of wild animals; and, above all, the processes by which the various cereals were first developed out of some wild grasses-these are all discoveries with which, in ingenuity and in importance, no subsequent discoveries may compare. They are all unknown to history - all lost in the light of an effulgent dawn - Professor Max Muller

And as this commerce could not, as we have seen, have been carried on by the Romans, Greeks, Etruscans, or Phoenicians, because their civilizations flourished during the Iron Age, to which this age of bronze was anterior, where then are we to look for a great maritime and commercial people, who carried vast quantities of copper, tin, and bronze (unalloyed by the lead of the south of Europe) to Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Ireland, England, France, Spain, Switzerland, and Italy? Where can we find them save in that people of Atlantis, whose ships, docks, canals, and commerce provoked the astonishment of the ancient Egyptians, as recorded by Plato - Ignatius Donnelly (Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, 1882)

Along with the American investigator Ignatius Donnelly, Comyns Beaumont found evidence to support the radical idea that situated the great pre-diluvian civilizations in the North-Western hemisphere. Britain and Ireland were the remnants, wrote Beaumont, of the empires of Atlantis. And it is from these regions that the most civilized and sophisticated peoples originated.

There are no signs of Paleolithic Man in the parts of Mesopotamia where civilization can be first detected, the region being generally young - Prof. W. J. Perry (Growth of Civilization)

From the intriguing accounts of Plato we glimpse indistinct images of the havoc that reduced man to the condition of the hunter-gatherer so beloved of the modern archaeologist and historian.

This vast power, gathered into one, endeavored to subdue with a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region…then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength among all mankind. She was preeminent in military skill and was the leader of the Hellenes…she defeated and triumphed over the invaders and preserved from slavery those who were not yet subjugated, and generously liberated all the rest of us who dwell between the Pillars. But afterwards, occurred violent earthquakes and floods and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth and the Island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea - Plato’s (Critias)

Similar accounts as those of the Athenian philosopher are to be found in the tribal myths and legends of every hemisphere. The historian of merit asks if there existed a single society that did not record the fact that the world had arisen from a pyre or that the world's upturning had ended the epoch of ancestral god-kings.

Down in the bottom of the sea are the proud cities and the worldly treasures corrupted with evil - Song of the Flood (Hopi Indian Saga)

Earthquakes shook the world and rent it…Creatures turned fierce, becoming beasts of prey, wherefore others turned timid…wretchedness and hunger abounded, black magic, war, and contention entered into the hearts of men and creatures - (Zuni Indian Legend)

…The pillars supporting the sky crumbled and the chains from which the earth was suspended shivered to pieces. Sun, moon, and stars poured down into the north-west, where the sky became low; rivers, seas and oceans rushed down to the south-east, where the earth sank - Chinese Legend (Source: T. Chi - Short History of Chinese Civilization)

The Moon’s chariot shall run amok in the Zodiac and the Pleiades will burst into tears. None of these will return to the duty expected of it. Ariadne will shut its door and be hidden within the enclosing cloud banks. In the twinkling of an eye the seas will rise up and the arena of the winds shall be opened once again. The winds shall do battle together with a blast of ill omen, making their din reverberate from one constellation to another - Geoffrey of Monmouth (Prophecies of Merlin: From History of the Kings of Britain)

The whole continent heaved and rolled like the ocean's waves. The land trembled and shook like the leaves of a tree in a storm. Temples and palaces came crashing to the ground and monuments and statues were overturned. The cities became heaps of ruins. As the land rose and fell, quivered and shook, the fires of the underneath burst forth, piercing the clouds in roaring flames three miles in diameter. There they were met by lightning shafts which filled the heavens. A thick black pall of smoke overshadowed the land. Huge cataclysmic waves rolled in over the shores and extended themselves over the plains. Cities and all things living went down to destruction before them. Agonizing cries of the multitude filled the air. The people sought refuge in their temples and citadels only to be driven out by fire and smoke, and the women and the men in their shining garments and precious stones cried: "Mu, save us!"'...During the night' the land was torn asunder and rent to pieces. With thunderous roarings the doomed land sank - James Churchward (The Lost Continent of Mu)

Like the great astronomer Edmund Halley, Charles Darwin, author of Origin of the Species and The Descent of Man, was one of a few men of science who pondered the evidence of global upheaval that met him everywhere he turned. His explanation for the innumerable anomalies that the Earth's geologic and archaeological record presented can be found in his travel journal:

What then has exterminated so many species and whole genera? The mind is at first irresistibly hurried into the belief of some great catastrophe; but thus to destroy animals both large and small…we must shake the entire framework of the globe. No lesser physical event could have brought about this wholesale destruction not only in the Americas but in the entire world…Certainly no fact in the long history of the world is so startling as the wide and repeated extermination of its inhabitants - (From journal, on his Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle)

Before modern anthropologists and archaeologists had begun their investigations, the only references to the early inhabitants of Europe and Britain came from incompetent Greek historians and duplicitous imperialist Roman documenters who never inquired into the origins of those predecessors of peoples regarded as barbaric, unruly, and irrepressibly aggressive. Little has changed in 2,000 years. To borrow an admonishing line from the Egyptians, our modern historian is, like his Greek and Roman sires, patently "young of mind."

...that in mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among you by ancient tradition, nor any science which is hoary with age - (Egyptian priest speaking to Solon, the father of Plato)

The story of the Irish people begins about ten thousand years ago when the first men arrived from Europe to what was then probably already an island. These wanderers from middle Europe were nomadic hunters, using flint for their arrows and knives. In their search for food they gradually spread to different parts of the island, living from hand to mouth along the coast, by rivers and lakes, competing with animals for the food needed to sustain life. These hunters have left little trace other than the primitive flint instruments they used - James Lydon (The Making of Ireland)

The university trained experts who strongly believe European "Celts" to have been a loose affiliation of Indo-European tribes fail to explain how those supposedly disconnected and tribally unrelated groups came to speak the same language of Gaelic. Linguists and philologists have noted that the many Indo-European languages appear to have been derived from a parent language.

...in 3000 B.C.E. the people who would later speak Hindi, Persian and Greek could quite possibly have communicated with one another freely, in languages similar enough to be understood by each, if indeed, the people were related to the language they spoke - Werner Keller (The Bible as History)

A few experts tacitly admit this parent language to have been proto-Gaelic. In any case, the similarity between apparently disparate tribes and nations is striking and intriguing. For instance, the word for king is found to be almost identical in several languages:

German - regent, konigreich
French - roi
Latin - rex
Sanskrit - raj, rajah
Celtic - rik
Irish Gaelic - ri

Additionally, the word for poet, seer, or bard, has been found to exist in similar form in several languages:

This striking similarity is easily explained, of course, once we realize that these so-called "Celtic" (or more properly Indo-European) tribes were originally, before their dispersal, much more homogenous a group than has been conjectured. It is explained once we understand that these cultures and tribes had common primordial ancestors who came from homelands not in Eastern Europe but in Ireland, Wales, England, and Scotland, and from decimated habitats that went the way of the land bridges once connecting Ireland to England and England to Western Europe. This Westward migratory movement also helps to explain why it is that no continental-type customs, buildings, or burial mounds have been discovered in Ireland corresponding to the dates given for the first major "Celtic" migrations into Ireland from the East. It certainly explains why late invaders and settlers on Ireland (the Goidelic and Brythonic Celts, and the Belgae, Picts, and Caledonians, etc) not only referred to their Megalithic predecessors as the "gods," but why they took these predecessors for gods.

Archaeologists cannot find support for any evident change in lifestyle between the older period and the period in which the Celts are supposed to have arrived...Whatever the explanation of this puzzle, there remains no direct evidence for a presence of continental Celtic peoples in Ireland - Carmel McCaffrey and Leo Eaton (In Search of Ancient Ireland)

The simple fact is that the relatively late Eastward migrations into Britain and Ireland of "Celtic" tribes are not to be considered the cause for the civilizations that arose and thrived there. And many anthropologists and historians know this. Nevertheless, due to pressure exercised from above, experts are often loath to question the origins of the sophisticated Megalithic culture they know existed and that was responsible for humankind's development, not just in Ireland and Britain, but throughout the world. The same stubborn attitude that exists in regards the so-called "Mound Builders" of America persists as regards the Megalithic Irish. In particular, the myths and legends of the races and nations that knew better are habitually dismissed or mistranslated. Barry Fell was told that the fascinating petrographs of North America, that he proved were Irish in origin, were merely doodles made by Indians high on hallucinogenic substances. The same attitude does not prevail regarding the hieroglyphics of Egypt because Egypt is in the East. Investigators, such as Fell and Velikovsky, who reverently employ data from the mythological archive to solve history's mysteries are ridiculed and labeled "unscientific." The East to West migration propaganda story is proffered forth and spluttered by "experts" ad infinitum.

The simplest things are always those the scholars see least. They go searching into the beyond, with infinite pains, neglecting the truth right under their noses - Fabre d'Olivet (La Langue hebraique restitutee)

Who shall thoroughly discern the truth from the fiction with which it is everywhere entwined, and in many places altogether overlaid? - Hayes O'Grady

It was primordial Irish customs and traditions that moved Eastwards to influence European "Celts," and not the other way around. Quandaries concerning the origins of the Irish "Celts" can be explained when we take heed of what the legends say, the authentic legends that is, rather than those concocted to reinforce the lie of an Eastern origin of the Irish. It is in these legends that speak of a Western origin that we find the truth concerning the ancient history of Ireland and the world. It is from the Irish legends that we find the most intriguing references to the lost pre-diluvian continent of Atlantis. In 1929, the author Elena Maria Whitshaw, wrote in her book Atlantis in Spain that the Spanish mariners and explorers, particularly during the time of Columbus, frequently visited the shores of Southern Ireland searching for evidence concerning the lost continent they referred to as Antilia. Clearly, the Spanish were in no doubt where to look for knowledge concerning the world that existed before the flood. Whitshaw wrote:

We might also add that, in our opinion, the great Tartessian ("Atlantean") ruins, galleries, wells, and forts of Andalucía, that Whitshaw studied for most of her life, and that inspired her book, are of Irish design. These ruins date from over 10,000 years ago and are marvels of Neolithic construction. Although they were subsequently built upon by settlers from Eastern lands, they are clearly of Western origins.

Certain researchers and experts on British prehistory have voiced doubts as to whether any so-called "Celtic" tribes ever actually invaded Ireland. L. A. Waddell and Beaumont found the idea preposterous. And the new science of DNA substantially corroborates their doubts concerning the spuriousness of "Celtic" East to West migration theories. Geneticist and genealogist, Professor Brian Sykes confirms, in his book Saxons, Vikings and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland, that the Celts did not contribute to the DNA of the original inhabitants of Ireland. He shows that migrations from the East had no substantial effect on the genetic makeup of the aboriginal Irish. Moreover, he confirms that 9,000 years ago the ancestors of the Irish, Welsh, Scots, and English, crossed land bridges connecting their lands to Europe. Moving Eastwards these tribes found Europe to be drastically underpopulated. Professor Sykes writes:

I can see no evidence at all of a large-scale immigration from central Europe to Ireland and west of the Isles generally, such as has been used to explain the presence there of the main body of ‘Gaels’ or ‘Celts.’ The ‘Celts’ of Ireland and the Western Isles are not, as far as I can see from the genetic evidence, related to the Celts who spread south and east to Italy, Greece and Turkey from the heartlands of Hallstadt and La Tène in the shadows of the Alps during the first millennium BC

Everyone has heard of Celts, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. And most of us are familiar with the idea that the English are descended from Anglo-Saxons, who invaded eastern England after the Romans left, while most of the people in the rest of the British Isles derive from indigenous Celtic ancestors with a sprinkling of Viking blood around the fringes. Yet there is no agreement among historians or archaeologists on the meaning of the words "Celtic" or "Anglo-Saxon." What is more, new evidence from genetic analysis (see note below) indicates that the Anglo-Saxons and Celts, to the extent that they can be defined genetically, were both small immigrant minorities. Neither group had much more impact on the British Isles gene pool than the Vikings, the Normans or, indeed, immigrants of the past 50 years - Stephen Oppenheimer (The Origins of the British: A Genetic Detective Story)

...scientific anthropologists and classic historians have proved that the "Celts" of history were the non-Aryan, round-headed, darkish small statured race of south Germany and Switzerland, and that the "Celts" properly so called are "totally lacking in the British Isles." Thus, to speak as is so commonly done, of "Celtic ancestry," the "Celtic "temperament," and "Celtic fire" amongst any section of the natives of these islands, is, according to anthropologists merely imagination. "The term "Celt" or "Celt" is entirely unknown as the designation of any race or racial element of language in the British Isles, until arbitrarily introduced there a few generations ago. Nor does the name even exist in the so-called "Celtic" languages, the Gaelic, Welsh and Irish. It is, on the contrary, the classic Greek and Latin title of a totally different race of a totally different physical type from that of the British Isles, and that the word was only produced there by unscientific philologists and ethnologists some decades ago - L. A. Waddell (Phoenician origin of Britons, Scots and Anglo-Saxons)

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The Atlanteans Arrive

The student who contemptuously or ignorantly dismisses the existence of Atlantis and other pre-diluvian civilizations will never come to understand the true history of Ireland. Recognition of the existence and importance of Atlantis in world affairs is an essential prerequisite to the study of the history of the world, and particularly of the British Isles and Scandinavia. To acknowledge the existence of pre-diluvian empires is to have the clouds of darkness over Ireland's prehistory disperse. The veils and webs of confusion are removed while scintillating beams of light illuminate the mysteries of that great country's ancient past. The history of Ireland is commonly divided into two main cycles - the "Mythological" and the "Historical." The former cycle deals with the ages when Ireland was colonized by fantastic races whose skills and sophistication confound modern historians who would rather we believe the accounts to be fanciful and inaccurate. Segmenting Ireland's prehistory in this manner was a cunning ruse to make it easier for historians and clerics to dismiss and denounce the many spectacular accounts of advanced weaponry and machinery, of advanced technical ability, and of aesthetic and magical prowess, to be found throughout the mythic accounts.

Unlike the natives of Britain and Scotland, the Irish in pre-Christian times were not brought into contact with Roman institutions or Roman culture. In consequence they created and developed a civilization of their own that was in some respects without equal. They were far advanced in the knowledge of metal-work and shipbuilding; they engaged in commerce; they loved music and had an acquaintance with letters; and when disputes arose among them, these were settled in duly constituted courts of justice, presided over by a trained lawyer, called a brehon, instead of being settled by the stern arbitrament of force. Druidism was their pagan creed. They believed in the immortality and in the transmigration of souls; they worshipped the sun and moon, and they venerated mountains, rivers, and wells; and it would be difficult to find any ministers of religion who were held in greater awe than the Druids - Joseph Dunn (Glories of Ireland, 1914)

The majority of the manuscripts that recount the history of Ireland were composed chiefly by monks between the 12th and 16th centuries AD, a long time after the events they refer to occurred. Among these old manuscripts are the following:

Book of the Dun Cow
Book of Leinster
Book of Ballymote
Book of Munster
Book of Lecan
Book of Lismore
Book of Fermoy
Book of Hy Maine (also known as the Book of the O'Kelleys)
Book of Deer
Book of MacRegol
Book of Durrow
Book of Lindisfarne
Cronicon Sectorum
Annals of Tighernach
Annals of Bally MacManus
Annals of Boyle
Annals of Connaught
Annals of Ulster
Annals of Innisfallen
The Lebar Gabala (Book of Invasions)
Book of Kells
The Mabinogion
Scotichronicon
Black Book of Caermarthen
Red Book of Hergest
Book of Aneurin
Triads of Taliesin
Annals of Clonmacnoise
Annals of the Four Masters

From the writings of the historians we discover that there were seven major phases or waves of "invasion" and colonization to Ireland after the great deluge believed to have occurred shortly after the creation. Although there has been little consensus over the order of visitations during the Mythological Cycle, the order of arrival and occupation usually delineated is as follows:

• The Fomorian Race - (considered cyclopean titans and adversaries of all who came after)

• The People of Kesair - (granddaughter of Noah, daughter of Bith, she allegedly arrived 40 days before the great flood)

• The Children of Partholan - (Arrival dated 2550 BC, they came from the West, and were decimated by war and disease)

• The Children of Nemed - (Arrival dated 2859 BC. They are also said to have been wasted by war and disease)

• The Iberians - (Fir Bolg, Fir Gaileon, and Fir Domnann)

• The Tuatha De Danann - (Tribe of the Goddess Danu, from lost islands in the North-West. Their arrival date was presumed to be approximately 2000 BC)

• The Children of Mil, or Mile (Goidelic Celts presumed to have come from Scythia in the East around 1000 BC)

It is important for us to analyze this order and fathom what the monks who archived Ireland's myths were attempting to hide and distort. For let us not doubt that there has been considerable distortion from Christian sources when it comes to Ireland's prehistory, particularly in regards event dating. What has been written and codified is not as important as what was not written or admitted. And the omissions, once rediscovered and understood, change everything we know about the history of Ireland and the world. In our opinion, the tale concerning the second visitation to Ireland is a spurious interpolation with no historical veracity whatsoever. It was a cunning interpolation of Christian monks intended to insinuate an Eastern origin for the Irish. Kesair, we read, came to Ireland with a handful of people a mere forty days before the great flood sent by god. Allegedly, she was a daughter of a son of Noah. The only part of that account we can agree with is the details concerning the great flood. We accept wholeheartedly that such a deluge did occur in ancient times. The rest of the tale is nothing but a monkish concoction. After all, could this Kesair of the Christians and Jews be responsible for Ireland's innumerable astronomically aligned Megalithic sites? We think not. One could make a case for the spuriousness of other visitation accounts, particularly of Partholan and Nemed. The story of their arrival to Ireland (dated by the monks to 2520 BC) may be based on fact but there is something contrived about the accounts of their fate afterward. Conveniently, for the monkish mythmongers, and inconveniently for everyone else trying to make sense of ancient Irish history, both contingents - the Partholans and Nemedians - on completely separate occasions, are stricken with disease after their successful wars against the Fomorians. A short time after their arrival each group is entirely decimated by plague. Not one man, woman, or child survived. And so their people exist only in story form. They came, they conquered, and then they tragically died. Was this the device used by those monks eager to manufacture the kind of dramatic history that would corroborate their bible? No one will ever know for sure until the vaults and archives in Dublin, London, and Rome are opened to the world.

The accounts that describe the Fomorian race, allegedly the first inhabitants of the British Isles, are also to be reappraised. The chroniclers speak of this cyclopean race but state that the Fomorian kings (Elathan and his son Breas) were the most beautiful of men. According to the various legends, the Fomorians (who were also known as the Men of Lochlann) lived on or under the sea. As regards Ireland, they behaved like zealous and ruthless security guards. They belligerently attacked anyone who attempted to settle upon the land they considered their property. A reader might justifiably ask whether there is an ounce of truth behind the depictions of this strange warlike hybrid race of both great ugliness and beauty. Were the Fomorians another concoction of the monks, or is there something else we need to know about the pre-diluvian world?

In short, we have doubts concerning the archive of information presented to us by the monks. We suspect that there have been interpolations, distortions, omissions, and misinterpretations. We suspect that the truth concerning the history of the British Isles has hitherto not been fully set down. However, it is one thing to suspect that deception has occurred and another to discover the reasons for that deception. If the monks and chroniclers of Ireland's history were intentionally deceptive, as we believe them to have been, then what was it that they were intent on hiding? What facts about Ireland and its various races would have driven Christian monks to such lengths? Why, for instance, do we read that Ireland was an uninhabited land before the visitation of Kesair and the Nemedians? Is there not something markedly suspicious about the way Ireland was presented to us by its first historians?

We can accept the idea of Ireland's nakedness once we accept that it was caused by the cataclysm that science has proven to have occurred approximately 10,000 years ago. This terrific disaster, discussed at length in Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation, was recorded in the legends of old and by the monks who collated the myths and legends of the British Isles. When a natural disaster wreaks havoc it destroys and kills and, if sufficiently violent, it will force people to flee their habitats. The lands so afflicted are deserted by those who have lost homes and settlements to tsunami, hurricane, typhoon, or volcano. Those who are so displaced are compelled to seek refuge in less ravaged regions. So, when we read that Ireland was largely uninhabited after the time of the biblical flood, we understand that it was inhabited before that destructive event took place. It might also be logical to suspect those indigenous occupants to be the same people who were displaced by the upheavals and who returned to their homes after a semblance of normalcy returned to their ancestral homes. This is exactly what happens today during a natural disaster and during its aftermath. It happens today and it happened in the past. Once we accept this simple premise we can make sense of the convoluted stories composed by mythmongers regarding Ireland's prehistory. These deceptive writers sought to begin Ireland's history from the time of the returns. This falsity can no longer be accepted by anyone wishing to research the West to East movement of the elements of civilization.

Those monks who were busy editing Ireland's history were not interested in having their readers find out that advanced pre-diluvian civilizations existed long before the time posited for the biblical creation. And so they were compelled to write their histories as we find them today. They were bound to present Ireland as an unpopulated country frequented by demonic titans who preferred to live on remote islands and high seas. And most importantly, they were bound to have the world believe that Ireland was first inhabited by migrants from the East. This deception has worked its magic. This is exactly what the vast majority of historians and interested parties believe about Ireland. What needs to be understood, and what we are adamantly convinced must be now disclosed to the world, is that these migrations from the East did indeed occur. The tribes of the mythological cycle of Irish prehistory did indeed enter Ireland from the East. But they were not coming to Ireland from that direction for the first time. They were returning after a prolonged period of forced exodus. They were the indigenous people of Ireland returning to their wrecked homes in order to begin the resettlement of their ancestral habitat. Once back they would have found their aspirations compromised by the return of other migrants from the East, and the arrival of those coming in for the first time in order to invade and conquer. The maintenance of order and security would have been dependent upon constant vigilance and a concerted aggressive resistance against hostile newcomers. This is what we deduce from various legends. In this regard, at least, we can assume the records of battles between rival races, common to the mythological cycle, to be generally accurate.

In our reappraisal, we conclude that the Fomorians were Atlanteans. We conclude that the British Isles and Scandinavia were part of the Hyperborean or Atlantean civilization. The Fomorians were also known as the Men of Lochlann. This is a reference to Norway, the land of lakes. Clearly, the Fomorians had taken to the seas in order to survive the after-effects of the deluge but did not evacuate the North-Western climes as other tribes had. They made use of whatever landmasses remained above the water level. They attempted, as best they could, to police those lands that, though wrecked by disaster, would again be habitable. They attempted to aggressively repel any tribe or contingent trying to return and resettle on lands they claimed either by right or might. We conclude that the Megalithic people, the original inhabitants of Ireland, hurriedly evacuated the torn lands by fleeing across the land bridges into Europe. Later, after a semblance of normality returned to the North-West, the descendants of the indigenous but displaced inhabitants of Ireland and England made their way back across the same land bridges now lost beneath the waves of the Irish and North Sea. What we deny, and deny utterly, is that these indigenous people (of whatever race) were visiting the British Isles from the East for the first time. We adamantly maintain that the Partholans, Nemedians, and De Danann of the history books had occupied Ireland millennia before the "Age of Catastrophe" dispersed them to the corners of the world, and that they originated in Western climes. To the Eastern lands they went, taking with them their skills and expertise in so many areas. And there they may have remained for as long a period as 5,000 years. In that time they, as inveterate rovers and intrepid explorers, visited France, Spain, Babylon, Syria, Africa, Egypt, China, and places further afield. We believe they maintained settlements in the Indus Valley until the drying up of the great Saraswati River. Nowadays, not a month goes by without evidence coming forth confirming the presence of Western men in the far off reaches of the world.

The father of King Partholan was known as Sera. Although this word means "West," it was also the term Egyptians gave to their kings whom the Greeks and Romans referred to by the term "pharaoh." In Punjabi, the term sera is close to the words for the "sun" (surya) and for "lion" (shera). We conclude that the Partholans had frequented Egypt and were regarded as nobility there. The name of Partholan's father was actually his title. Partholan was probably the son of a pharaoh (possibly of the 2nd or 3rd dynasty); one whose ancestors went to Egypt from Ireland.

Partholan is said to have come into Ireland from the West, where beyond the vast, unsailed Atlantic Ocean the Irish Fairyland, the Land of the Living - i.e., the land of the Happy Dead - was placed. His father's name was Sera (meaning - the West) - Thomas Rolleston (Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race, 1911)

For all these peoples, whether Hyperboreans, Cimmerians, Cimbrian, or even Tuatha de Danann are represented as belonging to a race of mysterious origins which lives at the ends of the earth and was supposedly driven from its original home. In mythological terms they are all Tuatha de Danann...The Tuatha de Danann were the ancient inhabitants of Ireland who were forced to give way to the Gaels and to become the gods of Celtic imagination, the lords of the subterranean world. There is no doubt that the name Tuatha de Danann was given to the pre-Celtic inhabitants of Ireland and that it must have been they who built the megaliths. Their uncertain origins combined with their curious stone constructions give them a cloak of mystery...If the Celts drove out the megalithic peoples of Ireland, there is no reason why the same thing should not have happened on the continent, where much of the region occupied by the Celts still bears traces of megalithic monuments - Jean Markale (The Celts)

Despite the best efforts of clerics and historians it is only the last group of invaders - the Milesians - who can positively be shown to have come to Ireland from the East for the first time. The story of the visitation of the Milesians is of central importance to our work. We will explore it in greater detail in another chapter. What interests us is that these Milesians, the descendants of Celts from Scythia, have been linked with the Israelites whose exodus from Egypt occurred after the fall of Akhenaton around 1300 BC. Historians date the Milesian invasion of Ireland to approximately 1000 BC, but we believe it to have occurred at a few hundred years earlie