Quinn, Bob *

Bob Quinn (1935 – ) is an Irish filmmaker who was born in Dublin but now lives in Connemara in the west of Ireland. Although he does not concern himself with demonstrating the reality of Plato’s Atlantis, he published a book ^[534] based on his four TV documentaries^(a), which outline a wide range of ancient cultural connections between Ireland and North Africa, as well as other regions. The book and DVDs are a valuable source for those that see Atlantis as an echo of a prehistoric cultural ‘empire’ stretching along the North African coast and up the western seaboard of Europe. This would broadly coincide with those regions that are richest in megalithic remains.

The possibility of a North African link with Ireland would appear to be reinforced by a number of 19th-century reports of the Irish language being understood by visitors from North Africa^(d). Additionally, there have also been wild claims of black Africans coming to Ireland in very ancient times^(e).

Quinn visited the enormous stone circle at Mzora in Morocco and was struck by its similarity to Newgrange in Ireland^(b).

Edo Nyland credits Quinn’s book as having provided some of the inspiration for his own Odysseus and the Sea Peoples ^[394].

Commencing Sept 27^th 2011, the Irish TV channel TG4 broadcast a series of his documentaries every Tuesday, each one introduced by Quinn himself.

Quinn’s Atlantean documentary is available on YouTube^(c).

^(a) Atlantean | conamara.org (archive.org)  *

^(b) https://heritageaction.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/the-mysterious-moroccan-megalithic-menhirs-of-mzora/  (see the last comment)

^(c) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec0m88nT4G0

^(d) https://www.libraryireland.com/articles/IrishLanguageAfricaUJA7-1859/index.php

^(e) https://web.archive.org/web/20191220075306/https://libertywritersafrica.com/ireland-was-first-inhabited-by-a-black-twa-tribe-allegedly-killed-by-st-Patrick/