{"id":1532,"date":"2010-05-24T06:53:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T06:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/o-siochain-p-a\/"},"modified":"2019-12-12T11:59:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T11:59:06","slug":"o-siochain-p-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/o-siochain-p-a\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00d3 S\u00edoch\u00e1in, P. A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Padraig_A__O_Siochain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-26795\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Padraig_A__O_Siochain-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Padraig_A__O_Siochain\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Padraig_A__O_Siochain-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Padraig_A__O_Siochain.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a>Padraig A. <\/strong><strong>\u00d3&#8217;S<\/strong><strong>\u00edoch\u00e1in <\/strong><strong>(1905-1995)<\/strong> was an Irish barrister and author of a number of books on law and history. In addition, he has written about prehistoric <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ireland\/\">Ireland<\/a><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/n-r\/\"><sup>498<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> including a number of chapters linking Ireland or more particularly the story of the legendary <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/hi-brasil-or-hy-brasil\/\">Hi-Brasil<\/a> with the Atlanteans.<\/p>\n<p>He loved the Aran Islands where he perfected his fluency with the Irish language and about which he devoted another of his books<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/n-r\/\"><sup>499<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>He was firmly convinced that these islands had once been connected to the mainland and offers evidence in support of this view.\u00a0 <strong> \u00d3&#8217;S\u00edoch\u00e1in <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His sober account of Ireland\u2019s possible links with Atlantis is, in my view, a valuable addition to Atlantean literature. It contains some fascinating details such as the designs incorporated into the famous Aran knitwear being a possible reflection of motifs found incised on the megaliths at Newgrange and elsewhere. On a less serious note he also recounts that the Celts introduced soap to the Romans and Greeks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Padraig A. \u00d3&#8217;S\u00edoch\u00e1in (1905-1995) was an Irish barrister and author of a number of books on law and history. In addition, he has written about prehistoric Ireland[498] including a number of chapters linking Ireland or more particularly the story of the legendary Hi-Brasil with the Atlanteans. He loved the Aran Islands where he perfected his [&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":[2793,293,294,458,1904],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aran-islands","tag-hi-brasil","tag-ireland","tag-newgrange","tag-padraig-a-o-siochain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","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=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}