County Antrim, Tuesday, 14th June, 2022…
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The history of Ireland can be perplexing.
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On the one hand, there are ample materials
stretching far back in time…
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And on the other,
it is clear that the materials, which
have been translated, have also been fiddled with.
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Nowhere is this more evident
than in the Lebor Gabala Erenn,
or ‘Book of the Takings of Ireland’,
where the early history of Ireland
is unceremoniously crow-barred
into a biblical narrative
by monkish clerics tasked with retelling the story…
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Cudny kraj!