Silverio deMelo is an Azorean writer who with unrestrained pride, waxes lyrical about his native islands. He even claims that they are greener than Ireland(a). He also promotes the idea of the Azores as the location of a Celtic Atlantis and which in turn, he believes inspired the Irish legend of Hy-Brasil.

(a) http://ezinearticles.com/?No-Man-Is-a-Continent—We-Are-All-Islands&id=6042667