{"id":13441,"date":"2010-12-07T17:27:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T17:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=13441"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:26:14","slug":"coghlan-ronan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/coghlan-ronan\/","title":{"rendered":"Coghlan, Ronan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ronan Coghlan (1948- ) <\/strong>was born in Dublin and now lives in Bangor, Northern Ireland. He has been a teacher at a number of schools and has published books on a variety of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Ronan-Coghlan2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-26834\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Ronan-Coghlan2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ronan Coghlan2\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>subjects ranging from Fairies to King Arthur to Atlantis. His best-selling <em>Illustrated Encyclopedia of Arthurian <em>Legends<\/em><\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\">0793<\/a>]<\/sup><em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/em>\u00a0is reported to have sold 120,000 copies!<\/p>\n<p>Coghlan has also produced a <em>Companion to Atlantis and Other Mystery Lands, <\/em>which is an A-Z guide to Plato\u2019s island as well as the more contentious <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mu\/\">Mu<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/lemuria\/\">Lemuria<\/a>. My principal objection to this work is the inclusion of too many references to the ramblings of so many self-proclaimed psychics, obvious psychotics and downright fraudsters. It would be nitpicking to go any further, but on the positive side I found this book more informative than the A-Z Guide published by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cox-simon\/\">Simon Cox<\/a><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\">0251<\/a>]<\/sup> and free of\u00a0the ancient America bias of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/joseph-frank\/\">Frank Joseph\u2019s <\/a>offering<u><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/h-j\/\"><sup>0104<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup><\/u>.\u00a0 .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronan Coghlan (1948- ) was born in Dublin and now lives in Bangor, Northern Ireland. He has been a teacher at a number of schools and has published books on a variety of subjects ranging from Fairies to King Arthur to Atlantis. His best-selling Illustrated Encyclopedia of Arthurian Legends[0793]\u00a0\u00a0is reported to have sold 120,000 copies! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[124,539,388,271,558,406],"class_list":["post-13441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-frank-joseph","tag-king-arthur","tag-lemuria","tag-mu","tag-ronan-coghlan","tag-simon-cox"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66043,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13441\/revisions\/66043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}