Did ya know that the Irish Saved Civilization?

maveric

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Fri Mar-17-06 09:08 PM
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Did ya know that the Irish Saved Civilization?

http://www.monroe.edu/~mcq/rel/howirish.html
http://www.catholicity.com/mccloskey/articles/cahillreview.html
My Dad would tell me that when I was a kid and I never believed it till I read Cahill's book.
Fascinating!

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Gormy Cuss

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Fri Mar-17-06 09:46 PM
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1. Yes, our ancestors or their countrymen did.

If you aren't intimidated by the heft of the thing I recommend Thomas Keneally's " The Great Shame" about the diaspora.

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Wed Mar-22-06 03:47 PM
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2. Yeah, those bloody Ay-rabs had nothing to do with it

It was an interesting read, but glossed over A LOT of things (like how the Arabs preserved a lot of the ancient Roman & Greek knowledge through the European Dark Ages). Plus, it had a very heavily Christian bias which I found a little too preachy at times (and I AM a Christian).

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dr.strangelove

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Wed Mar-22-06 04:15 PM
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3. I'm an Irish-American and I save civilization every day.

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