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The Atlantean Irish: Ireland's Oriental and Maritime Heritage
Bob Quinn
ISBN: 978-1-84351-024-6
The Irish identity is best approached by sea. For eight thousand years the island has been a haven for intrepid navigators, a trading post absorbing goods and people from all points of the compass. The reduction of the Irish to the fanciful title of ‘Celts' has persisted for three hundred years too many and is here dismissed. No classical author ever called the Irish ‘Celts' and until quite recently neither did the Irish so describe themselves.These islanders are an amalgam of peoples; their culture and language are shaped as much by Middle Eastern civilizations as they are by Europe. The Gaelic language itself was not imported from Europe; it was forged over thousands of years of endless trading up and down the Atlantic seaways.
Over the past twenty years Bob Quinn has traced these archaeological, linguistic, religious and economic connections from Newgrange to Morocco, from Arann to Tatarstan, from Carraroe to Cairo. He has shown the similarity between Conamara sean-nós singing and its Middle Eastern equivalents. He has championed the North African linguistic stratum beneath the indigenous Gaelic language. This is the revised, expanded and newly illustrated edition of the text, originally published in 1986, which followed the famous Atlantean Trilogy of films.
The Author: Bob Quinn, writer, film-maker, director at RTE for many years, author of Maverick, an autobiography (2002).
Publication date: December 2010
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Bob Quinn
ISBN: 978-1-84351-024-6
The Irish identity is best approached by sea. For eight thousand years the island has been a haven for intrepid navigators, a trading post absorbing goods and people from all points of the compass. The reduction of the Irish to the fanciful title of ‘Celts' has persisted for three hundred years too many and is here dismissed. No classical author ever called the Irish ‘Celts' and until quite recently neither did the Irish so describe themselves.These islanders are an amalgam of peoples; their culture and language are shaped as much by Middle Eastern civilizations as they are by Europe. The Gaelic language itself was not imported from Europe; it was forged over thousands of years of endless trading up and down the Atlantic seaways.
Over the past twenty years Bob Quinn has traced these archaeological, linguistic, religious and economic connections from Newgrange to Morocco, from Arann to Tatarstan, from Carraroe to Cairo. He has shown the similarity between Conamara sean-nós singing and its Middle Eastern equivalents. He has championed the North African linguistic stratum beneath the indigenous Gaelic language. This is the revised, expanded and newly illustrated edition of the text, originally published in 1986, which followed the famous Atlantean Trilogy of films.
The Author: Bob Quinn, writer, film-maker, director at RTE for many years, author of Maverick, an autobiography (2002).
Publication date: December 2010
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