I find it scary that if it were not for you and your one-man crusade to throw light upon actual Early Irish History, and the role of the Cruthin, the fiction that currently passes for Irish History could actually pass as truth. Now it can’t.

When I walk down a street in County Donegal and see most of the people passing me with the same pale skin, dark hair, and blue eyes, and not having any idea that they represent the original (post last Ice-age) inhabitants of Ireland, but cling to a fictional account of Irish history, it makes me feel sad at first and then angry.

Father Thomas O’Connor feels equally angry for a different reason. The Powers That Be in the Irish Republic are wantonly destroying the evidence of the great invasions of Ireland by the Fir Bolg into Connacht that correlate with the Tales of “The Ulster Cycle” and the struggles of the native Irish against the invaders.

Tara was a province of the ancient Kingdom of Ulster, which I am coming to believe was the last vestige of the “native Kingdom of Ireland” rather than a Northern “Ulster” Kingdom. That “Ulster” covered only the entire northern third of the island by the time of Ptolemy’s Map because of the Belgic invasion, but may have covered most of the island previously.

Certainly Ptolemy recorded only two Regia in Ireland – The Capital (at Emaim Macha) and the other Capital at Turoe (Temhroit, mirroring the Temhroit in Belgic Gaul)

The actual Irish history that your well-researched works have exposed is much more interesting and inspiring than the romantic nonsense that passes for Irish History today.

So, Ian, I salute you for your valiant efforts and your scholarly works.

But much more needs to be done, and I would love you and Tom O’Connor to meet, discuss all that you know, and produce a major authoritative piece reconciling the true history of Ireland into something that rings so true that the romantic pseudo-history nonsense will be consigned irrevocably to the dustbin of history