County Antrim, Tuesday, 14th June, 2022…

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The history of Ireland can be perplexing.

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On the one hand, there are ample materials

stretching far back in time…

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And on the other,

it is clear that the materials, which

have been translated, have also been fiddled with.

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Nowhere is this more evident

than in the Lebor Gabala Erenn,

or ‘Book of the Takings of Ireland’,

where the early history of Ireland

is unceremoniously crow-barred

into a biblical narrative

by monkish clerics tasked with retelling the story…

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