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The Atlantean Irish: Ireland's Oriental and Maritime Heritage
Bob Quinn
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Description for The Atlantean Irish: Ireland's Oriental and Maritime Heritage
Paperback. The Irish are an amalgam of peoples, their culture and language shaped as much by Middle Eastern civilizations as by European ones. Bob Quinn traces these archaelogical, linguistic, religious and economic connections. Num Pages: 256 pages, colour and b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 165 x 236 x 15. Weight in Grams: 590.
Irish identity is best understood from a maritime perspective. For eight millennia the island has been a haven for explorers, settlers, colonists, navigators, pirates and traders, absorbing goods and peoples from all points of the compass. The reduction of the islanders to the exclusive category ‘Celtic’ has persisted for three hundred years, and is here rejected as impossibly narrow. No classical author ever described Ireland’s inhabitants as ‘Celts’, and neither did the Irish so describe themselves until recent times. The islanders’ sea-girt culture has been crucially shaped by Middle Eastern as well as by European civilizations, by an Islamic heritage ... Read more
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Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
587g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781843510246
SKU
V9781843510246
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 3 to 5 working days
Ref
99-92
About Bob Quinn
BOB QUINN, writer, photographer, film-maker and television director, is a member of Aosdana and has lived in Conamara in the West of Ireland since 1970. He is author of Sit Down and Be Counted (1969); Smokey Hollow (1991), a fictional memoir; An Tir Aneol (1995), a photographic record of Conamara; and Maverick (2001), a critique of modern broadcasting.
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