{"id":13875,"date":"2011-02-23T08:31:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T08:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=13875"},"modified":"2026-03-21T18:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:42:23","slug":"irish-atlantology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/irish-atlantology\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Atlantology"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/strong>rish Atlantology, <\/strong>with a couple of notable exceptions, has not been overly productive. The man responsible for kick-starting \u2018modern\u2019 interest in Atlantis, Ignatius Donnelly<\/a> (1831-1901), was the son of an Irish emigrant to the United States and so, although he might have qualified for the Ireland Soccer Team, I must exclude him as a contributor to Irish Atlantology. Another excludee is Henry O\u2019Brien<\/a> (1807-1835) who, although unquestionably Irish, has been associated with the study of Atlantis by publishers who cynically retitled his The Round Towers of Ireland <\/em>[<\/sup>124<\/sup><\/a>] <\/sup>as The Round Towers of Atlantis<\/em> [<\/sup>125<\/sup><\/a>] <\/sup> although it does not contain a single reference to either Atlantis or Plato!<\/p>\n

Edward Hull<\/a> (1829-1917) was a noted geologist and like Donnelly supported the idea of the Azores<\/a> as remnants of Atlantis.<\/p>\n

Marion McMurrough Mulhall<\/a> published a number of books including Beginnings or Glimpses of Vanished Civilizations <\/em>[1343<\/a>]<\/sup>.\u00a0In this interesting, if rather dated work of 136 pages, she suggests that \u201cThe gods and goddesses of the ancient Greeks, the <\/em>Phoenicians<\/em>, the Hindoos, and the Scandinavians were simply the kings, queens, and heroes of Atlantis, and the acts attributed to them in mythology are a confused recollection of real historical events.<\/em><\/p>\n

Helen O\u2019Cleary\u00a0<\/a>in her book, Atlantis <\/em>[1248<\/a>]<\/sup>,<\/em>\u00a0aimed at younger readers, expressed the opinion that the early inhabitants of Ireland may have been refugees, rather than colonisers from Atlantis. She sees the gods of Egypt as having more in common with the Celts than with the pantheons of ancient Greece and Rome.<\/p>\n

The most famous Irish Atlantologist was unquestionably the late J. V.Luce<\/a> (1920-2011). He was a respected classicist and\u00a0a leading proponent of the Minoan Hypothesis<\/a> although he considered Plato\u2019s Atlantis story to be a mixture of fact and fiction [<\/sup>120<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

P. A. \u00d3 S\u00edoch\u00e1in<\/a> (1905-1995), a barrister, sought to link Atlantis with the Irish legend of Hy-Brasil<\/a> [<\/sup>498<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

The filmmaker Bob Quinn<\/a>, in his book Atlantean <\/em>[<\/sup>534<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup>, links the Irish megalith builders<\/a> with the culture of North Africa and the maritime heritage which connected both.<\/p>\n

Herbie Brennan<\/a> in The Atlantis Enigma<\/em> [<\/sup>030<\/sup><\/a>] <\/sup>offered a fairly general overview of ancient mysteries but does little to solve the when? where? or who? associated with Atlantis.<\/p>\n

Dubliner, Ronan Coghlan<\/a>, produced his Companion to Atlantis and Other Mystery Lands<\/em> [<\/sup>727<\/sup><\/a>] <\/sup>as an A-Z guide to Atlantis, Mu<\/a> and Lemuria<\/a>, which unfortunately includes a lot of dubious material which has emanated from \u2018psychics\u2019 and psychotics.<\/p>\n

A 2010 contribution to Irish Atlantology\u00a0was my own offering, Atlantipedia <\/em>[1668<\/a>]<\/sup>,\u00a0<\/em>which was intended not only to inform but also encourage and hopefully assist others to take up Atlantean research. I wish all well in such an endeavour, irrespective of nationality. Truth does not recognise borders.\u00a0It was a 500-page volume compared to the 2,100 pages that would be required to print the contents of this website now (May 2022).<\/p>\n

Ronnie Gallagher<\/a>, an admirer of Reginald Fessenden<\/a>, also located Atlantis in the Caucasus<\/a> region and believes that was inundated as a consequence of the creation of a vast \u2018flooded Eurasia\u2019 that resulted from the collapse of glacial ice-dams(b), comparable with the Lake Missoula<\/a> Floods in America.<\/p>\n

In November 2018, I published an ebook, Joining the Dots <\/em>[1590<\/a>]<\/sup>,\u00a0<\/em>which reflected the results of my own fifteen years of research. The book had the self-explanatory subtitle of Plato’s Atlantis in the Central Mediterranean.<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2021, Anthony Woods<\/a>, CEO of the unaccredited Keystone University(a)\u00a0 <\/sup>published Atlantis Ireland<\/em>, which is a pathetic attempt to identify Stone Age Ireland as a global hyperdiffusionist<\/a> centre. He claims that megalith building, language and religion, all spread globally from Ireland, also known as Atlantis!<\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.keystone.ie<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup> \u00a0https:\/\/grahamhancock.com\/gallagherr1\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Irish Atlantology, with a couple of notable exceptions, has not been overly productive. The man responsible for kick-starting \u2018modern\u2019 interest in Atlantis, Ignatius Donnelly (1831-1901), was the son of an Irish emigrant to the United States and so, although he might have qualified for the Ireland Soccer Team, I must exclude him as a contributor […]<\/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":[6614,3221,2010,1120,982,853,1729,108,7232,514,6393,119,1615,203,157,7233,881,558,1084],"class_list":["post-13875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anthony-woods","tag-bob-quinn","tag-caucasus","tag-helen-oclery","tag-henry-obrien","tag-herbie-brennan","tag-hy-brasil","tag-ignatius-donnelly","tag-irish-atlantology","tag-j-v-luce","tag-keystone-university","tag-lake-missoula","tag-marion-mcmurrough-mulhall","tag-megalith-builders","tag-minoan-hypothesis","tag-p-a-o-siochain","tag-reginald-fessenden","tag-ronan-coghlan","tag-ronnie-gallagher"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875","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=13875"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66900,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875\/revisions\/66900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}