FREE THE ATLANTEAN IRISH: IRELANDS ORIENTAL AND MARITIME HERITAGE PDF Bob Quinn | 256 pages | 15 Jan 2006 | The Lilliput Press Ltd | 9781843510246 | English | Dublin, Ireland Atlantean | Irish identity is best understood from a maritime perspective. For eight millennia the island has been a haven for explorers, settlers, colonists, navigators, pirates and traders, absorbing goods and peoples from all points of the compass. Over the past twenty years Bob Quinn has traced archaeological, linguistic, religious and economic connections from Egypt to Arann, from Morocco to Newgrange, from Cairo and Compostela to Carraroe. Taking Conamara sean-nos singing and its Arabic equivalents, and a North African linguistic stratum under the Irish tongue, Quinn marshalls evidence from field archaeology, boat-types, manuscript illuminations, weaving patterns, mythology, literature, art and artefacts to support a challenging thesis that cites, among The Atlantean Irish: Irelands Oriental and Maritime Heritage recent studies of the Irish genome, new mitochondrial DNA analysis in the Atlantic zone from north Iberia to west Scandinavia. The Atlantean Irish is a sumptuously illustrated, exciting, intervention in Irish cultural history. Forcefully debated, and wholly persuasive, it opens up a past beyond Europe, linking Orient to Occident. What began as a personal quest-narrative becomes a category-dissolving intellectual adventure of universal significance. It is a book whose time has arrived. Lilliput Press — July 18, This book revises and expands his thesis. Bob Quinn confronts received knowledge and upends the status quo. Living in a Conamara gaeltacht sincehis adopted locale inspired him to ask two questions that impelled the saga adapted in this update Dublin: The Lilliput Press,20 euro to his work, Atlantean. Quinn targets cultural echoes, archaeological evidence, and linguistic links tying Ireland not to the conventional La Tene-Celtic and thereafter European-centered diffusion pattern, but to a neglected nautical passage that, he reasoned, had long escaped the gaze of Continentally The Atlantean Irish: Irelands Oriental and Maritime Heritage scholars fixated on an Indo-European genesis for the peoples and crafts that entered into the island. Only source titles, not precise citations, fill his endnotes, frustratingly. He advances that the true impetus for Irish culture came from North African, Egyptian, and Mediterranean lands rather than Central Europe, the Roman empire, and its successors. While I lack the familiarity that Quinn has with his many sources, I wondered why, however, his use of mitochondrial DNA studies to support his claims cited Bryan Sykes his eloquent Seven Daughters of Eve. Goldsmith and colleagues, also depends on genetic markers still overwhelmingly present in natives to the West today. None of these researchers, active in the past decade, have been cited by Quinn, an obvious flaw. The evidence, as Quinn admits at times, for a maritime rather than continental dependence influencing Irish development depends far too often for academic scrutiny upon perhaps coincidental or random findings, albeit painstakingly and cleverly compiled by Quinn over three decades and more. Like the vicar, his collection impresses somewhat but also leaves the viewer muddle-headed as he examines many labels, evaluations, and connections between displays. Chapters on Wales, Vikings, and Sheela-na-Gigs sway uneasily beside steadier accounts of monastic art, mythmaking, and the pirate trade with Algiers and Morocco. The Berber-Irish parallels again smack of the type of overly enthusiastic detective fieldwork that Lorraine Evans Kingdoms of the Ark. Frustration emerges as Quinn recounts throughout his revised work the skepticism he faced from this establishment. Many today, in classrooms and libraries, may not pay much attention to such independent scholars and thinkers. Yet, I applaud Quinn in that he speaks boldly from his own, equally defensible, certainly progressive, sea-ready fastness. If we descended from the Atlantic fringe under a Celtic heritage, we can then boast our descent from Atlanteans! Anyone driving from Galway city through to, say, Carna, might agree with Quinn. You hug the sea more than the mountain in drawing your bearings, your domain, and your living. Its towns and enterprises meet the needs of those traditionally travelling by huicear and not Honda, currach and not Cortina. Commonsense shows, in what Quinn should have displayed with localised and more modern archaeological maps, that from Neolithic times contacts can be charted drawing the West and South of Ireland into Spanish ports and settlement and trade more than European markets. From the Arabic term for any trefoil, by the ways Quinn unveils, we import shamrakh. From Egypt to Connemara, over decades, he has tracked down The Atlantean Irish: Irelands Oriental and Maritime Heritage volume of pre-Celtic connections to Ireland. It is The Atlantean Irish: Irelands Oriental and Maritime Heritage that his research rests on very broadly based, earlier studies. It is bizarre that this idea should still be considered controversial by most archaeologists in Ireland, when the Phoenicians The Atlantean Irish: Irelands Oriental and Maritime Heritage known to have traded for Cornish tin. He pulls apart the stagnant orthodoxy that is the study of early Irish history and breaths new life into the area. He charts the developement of Irish culture, through our Maritime past, our linguistic and culural History along the atlantic Seabord to the Iberian peninsula and North Africa. The Irish never called themselves Celts — it was the cabal in London that devised a plan to hide the true history of the Gaels. Something deep inside Quinn rejects the imposed colonial identity — He leaves Dublin and moves to Conamara — to the western edge of Ireland. It is becoming the case that if you want to get to the roots The Atlantean Irish: Irelands Oriental and Maritime Heritage Irish history you have to go outside the academic mainstream to enthusiasts like Quinn. Was it the case that Ireland was not the barbaric outpost passively soaking up influences from around the known world as suggested by so many — including Quinn — but was a mighty sea power that could resist all the great empires until the Anglo-Normans somehow over came them in the 12th centuryAD. Or maybe the Irish built the pyramids, like they built early European Christianity!? Crazy eh? Your Review. By: John Ryan. Please place your order and we will post books out as soon as possible, given the current restrictions. Based on NSAI guidelines, and with staff health and safety in mind, this means we can now post orders once a week. Thanks for all your support! Search Bookshop… My Account. Foreword by Barry Cunliffe, Professor of European Archaeology Irish identity is best understood from a maritime perspective. Rated 5 out of 5. ISBN Read More. Search Bookshop…. The Atlantean Irish: Ireland's Oriental and Maritime Heritage - Bob Quinn - Google книги The maritime perspective brings them a lot closer to mediterranean peoples - including Arabs and Berbers - than to the jaded fictions of 'Celts' or 'Aryans'. THE Atlantean Irish book and films show that the island of Ireland was never a remote outpost on the fringes of Europe. From the hunters and fishermen of the megalithic age, then the Carthaginians of the The Atlantean Irish: Irelands Oriental and Maritime Heritage Milennium to the crooked investors, carpetbaggers and drug smugglers of the modern age, from Eastern monks fleeing persecution to 19th century prosletysers, from the Mediterranean to the Baltic, the island has always been regarded as a lucrative trading post and a desirable residence. This Atlantean adventure, in the Bob Quinn version, is not the fanciful residue of a submerged continent or a racist fiction called 'Celts'. It is a revelation of Irish identity using much the same sources and scholarship that have been available for the past years to armchair scholars and writers. But here, for the first time, their conclusions are exposed to the light of commonsense i. ATLANTEAN can be viewed as an anti-racist polemic but because the first edition was published over 25 years ago - long before Ireland became an uneasily cosmopolitan society - it is much more than that. The basic principle is that the sea does not divide peoples - it unites all countries and human beings. For a couple of centuries the Vikings ruled the Atlantic waves from the mediterranean to Norway. Dublin was their slave emporium. They even kidnapped the entire population of Baltimore, Co. Cork and brought them back to Algiers. The island of Ireland was and is a traffic island. The project began innocently enough when, nearly thirty years ago, an Irish film maker, Bob Quinn, set out to show that the singing style of his neighbours in Gaelic-speaking Conamara in the West of Ireland was much more than a debased and incomprehensible version of ballad-singing - which was the attitude of anglophones. Over the following thirty years he showed how similar it was to North African and Afro-Asian singing and daringly went on to discover historic, religious, artistic, archaeological and linguistic similarities with Hamito-Semitic cultures. A trilogy of films ensued. They won several awards, were acclaimed internationally. The film maker wrote a book on the The Atlantean Irish: Irelands Oriental and Maritime Heritage which he recently updated and published with an introduction The Atlantean Irish: Irelands Oriental and Maritime