tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post3753716799367489482..comments2024-03-27T18:12:22.027-07:00Comments on RAWIllumination.net: RAW's romantic Irish nationalism Cleveland Okie (Tom Jackson)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07810736442596736041noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-59631412289548756122019-11-13T01:48:18.443-08:002019-11-13T01:48:18.443-08:00I am Irish and grew up during the 60's. At sch...I am Irish and grew up during the 60's. At school we were taught the official Irish history (church and state sanctioned), the 'real history' of the fight against the oppressors,along with the mythological history of Finn McCool et al. Since then there has been an updating of all of these. For example unknown to many is the fact that Irish lesbians played a part in the 1916 Irish rising. I remember a history student telling me that there were rooms full of unread historical documents the content of which was unknown. So its understandable why there may be so many versions.Kevinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-12869160780075487972019-11-12T11:42:34.221-08:002019-11-12T11:42:34.221-08:00Sorry, a typo in one of the links. Last sentence ...Sorry, a typo in one of the links. Last sentence should read:<br /><br /> Fintan O’Toole also dismantles the ‘Celtic’ theory, <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/news/our-ancestors-weren-t-celts-they-were-copycats-1.1193485" rel="nofollow">here</a> but from a different perspective.Alias Bogushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10908752518788179717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-89071407659358750122019-11-12T07:23:45.753-08:002019-11-12T07:23:45.753-08:00It might amuse you to know of an alternative histo...It might amuse you to know of an alternative history of Ireland, put together by Bob Quinn. He, like Bucky Fuller, assumes that travel by sea formed a more important part of the spread of cultures, than travel over land. The Celts, or rather ‘Celtic Culture’ usually get described as reaching Ireland from the mainland of Europe, but Quinn’s theory implies that a common culture existed up and down the Atlantic seaboard, from Spain, to Brittany, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and around to Norway, etc (hence the Viking influence). He traces traditions of music, and the strange unaccompanied singing of the West Coast, knitting patterns of the traditional sweaters, the style of boats, the position of buildings on the peninsulas, rather than in the bays, and all sorts of fascinating corroboration.<br /><br />He wrote a book “The Atlantean Irish” with a lot more detail, and he also made <a href="http://conamara.org/index.php?page=atlantean" rel="nofollow">some documentaries</a>. I bought the full set from him years ago, but you can <a href="https://dai.ly/xscgzc" rel="nofollow">find episode one online</a>.<br /><br /><i>Of course</i>, he is considered a crank by many mainstream anthropologists and historians, clinging to their Celtic model (what Joyce called The Cultic Twalette). I don’t ask you to ‘believe’ anything he says.<br /><br /> Fintan O’Toole also dismantles the ‘Celtic’ theory, <a rel="nofollow">here</a> but from a different perspective.Alias Bogushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10908752518788179717noreply@blogger.com