{"id":29539,"date":"2016-02-04T07:47:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T07:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=29539"},"modified":"2026-05-07T09:34:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:34:42","slug":"lynch-patrick-neison-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/lynch-patrick-neison-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynch, Patrick Neison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Patrick_Lynch.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29542\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-29542\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Patrick_Lynch-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"Patrick_Lynch\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Patrick_Lynch-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Patrick_Lynch.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a>Patrick Neison<\/strong><strong> Lynch <\/strong><strong>(1817-1882) <\/strong>was the Irish-born third Catholic bishop of Charleston, South Carolina and a prominent slaveowner, having ninety-five slaves. He was appointed by Jefferson Davis, the Confederate President, to go to Rome to seek the recognition of the southern breakaway states by the Vatican, or more correctly the Papal States, as it was then.<\/p>\n<p>In a newspaper report of a lecture<sup>(a) <\/sup>that he gave\u00a0in 1867, Lynch declared <em>&#8220;I shall take it as an established fact that America was peopled by the sons of Japheth.&#8221;<\/em> whom he named more specifically as the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/phoenicians\/\">Phoenicians<\/a>. He also clearly attributed the ancient exploitation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/michigan\/\">Michigan<\/a> copper to the Phoenicians.<\/p>\n<p>Lynch also identified <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/america\/\">America<\/a> as Plato&#8217;s Atlantis, although he does not at any point refer to the Phoenicians as Atlanteans..<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/cdnc.ucr.edu\/cgi-bin\/cdnc?a=d&amp;d=MDA18670530.2.2&amp;srpos=7&amp;e=-------en--20--1-byDA-txt-txIN-Plato+Atlantis-------1\">https:\/\/cdnc.ucr.edu\/cgi-bin\/cdnc?a=d&amp;d=MDA18670530.2.2&amp;srpos=7&amp;e=&#8212;&#8212;-en&#8211;20&#8211;1-byDA-txt-txIN-Plato+Atlantis&#8212;&#8212;-1<\/a>\u00a0 or See <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-3902\/\">Archive 3902<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Neison Lynch (1817-1882) was the Irish-born third Catholic bishop of Charleston, South Carolina and a prominent slaveowner, having ninety-five slaves. He was appointed by Jefferson Davis, the Confederate President, to go to Rome to seek the recognition of the southern breakaway states by the Vatican, or more correctly the Papal States, as it was [&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":[43,2259,410,4478,6175,126,4477,90,132],"class_list":["post-29539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-america","tag-atlantis","tag-copper","tag-japheth","tag-jefferson-davis","tag-michigan","tag-patrick-neison-lynch","tag-phoenicians","tag-plato"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29539","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=29539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67360,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29539\/revisions\/67360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}