{"id":29142,"date":"2015-12-14T08:36:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T08:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=29142"},"modified":"2025-09-21T17:42:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T16:42:54","slug":"ward-francis-j-francis-p-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ward-francis-j-francis-p-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Ward, Francis J. &#038; Francis P."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_29144\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Francis-Joseph-Ward.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29144\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29144\" class=\"wp-image-29144 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Francis-Joseph-Ward-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Francis Joseph Ward\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Francis-Joseph-Ward-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Francis-Joseph-Ward.jpg 551w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francis J. Ward<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Francis J.<\/strong> <strong>W<\/strong><strong>ard (1922- )<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Francis P.<\/strong> <strong>W<\/strong><strong>ard (1951- ) <\/strong>are an American father and son team who have taken up the idea of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ireland\/\">Ireland<\/a> being Plato&#8217;s Atlantis<sup>(a)<\/sup>. They quote from <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/erlingsson-dr-ulf\/\">Ulf Erlingsson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/erlingsson-dr-ulf\/\">Cedric R. Leonard <\/a>and the eccentric <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/macdari-conor-n\/\">Conor MacDari<\/a> in support of their view, which is that<strong> <em>&#8220;<\/em><\/strong><em>Atlantis was a global, maritime empire based in Ireland&#8221;.<\/em> They also modestly claim that <em>&#8220;Among other ancient mysteries, we have solved the hidden message of the Great Pyramid<\/em><sup>(b)<\/sup><em>, and the riddles of King Arthur and the Knights of the Roundtable, the Fisher King, Pahana\u2014the Lost White Brother, the Kalki incarnation of Vishnu, and the fulfillments of the Star, Branch, and World Ruler Prophecies.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Their first book, <em>The Truth Against the World-Red Phoenix Rising &amp; the Return of the Thunder Gods<\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/w-z\/\"><sup>1156<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup><em>, <\/em>but their supporting website<sup>(c)<\/sup> is currently offline, which may not be a bad thing!<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/beforeitsnews.com\/conspiracy-theories\/2012\/02\/the-lost-civilization-of-atlantis-is-ireland-1702516.html?currentSplittedPage=0\">https:\/\/beforeitsnews.com\/conspiracy-theories\/2012\/02\/the-lost-civilization-of-atlantis-is-ireland-1702516.html?currentSplittedPage=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.a-w-i-p.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/24\/the-hidden-message-of-the-great-pyramid (Link broken July 2o20) See: <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2835\/\">Archive 2835<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120327013830\/http:\/\/www.thetruthagainsttheworld.net\/\">http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120327013830\/http:\/\/www.thetruthagainsttheworld.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis J. Ward (1922- ) &amp; Francis P. Ward (1951- ) are an American father and son team who have taken up the idea of Ireland being Plato&#8217;s Atlantis(a). They quote from Ulf Erlingsson, Cedric R. Leonard and the eccentric Conor MacDari in support of their view, which is that &#8220;Atlantis was a global, maritime [&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":[2768,4352,4362,4363,472,294,539,1141],"class_list":["post-29142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cedric-r-leonard","tag-conor-macdari","tag-francis-j-ward","tag-francis-p-ward","tag-great-pyramid","tag-ireland","tag-king-arthur","tag-ulf-erlingsson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29142","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=29142"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64721,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29142\/revisions\/64721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}