Talk:Atlantean (film series)

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I'm not even sure what Quinn's thesis actually is. The Irish are the direct, pure descendants of a single Mesolithic wave of immigration to Ireland from North Africa, and no further immigration has occurred until modern times? The Irish language is unrelated to Continental Celtic (but rather to modern Berber) and goes all the way back to the end of the Pleistocene? (I wonder if Quinn has ever heard of Primitive Irish, or if he dismisses it as a racist scholarly fabrication.) Sounds like a rehash of the effectively ultra-nationalist "Paleolithic Continuity Theory". Face it, Quinn is not a maverick, he's a typical crank. (And projects his own racist, essentialist worldview on his critics: he cannot conceive of the Irish as being a mixed lot.) Just a crank who happens to (seemingly) agree with other "rebels" against the established consensus, who display similar confusion about (matters of, or what constitutes) "Celticity". Even the "Celtic from the West" gang does not contest the common origin of all the Celtic languages, only the consensus view about the geographic location of this common origin. Like so many, Quinn is confused by treating genetic, archaeological and linguistic data as congruent. (And the genetic and archaeological data as far less ambiguous than they really are.) But there is no reason to suppose that they are, that no migrations after the initial peopling, nor language shifts have occurred (prior to the modern age), and that the spoken language of Ireland has always been the same. Ireland's modern history is admonishment enough that ethnic origin and native language are not inseparably tied together at all. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 11:17, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

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