HOW THE IRISH SAVED CIVILIZATION
This is real history, not fantasy, I just did some related podcast
history lessons last two summers especially, all related, on
Byzantium, Rome, Vikings, Crusades, Renaissance, all of this
overlaps and more than one University history professor referenced
this work for it's real history, most of these courses were great,
start off with, " why it matters ", and all of it overlaps, each course.
Maybe I will post them later.
To the Irish and for St. Patrick's day.
On a side note, Irish Scholars and Monks made the
Vikings famous in their works. Those vikings not smart
enough to hire the Irish are lost to history, and the
smart ones live in eternity through the writings of
Irish Scholars and religious people, pretty incredible.
HOW THE IRISH SAVED CIVILIZATION
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/cahill/irish.html
Written by Thomas Cahill
Category: History - Ireland
Imprint: Anchor
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Pub Date: February 1996
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 0-385-41849-3
The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe.
Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become "the isle of saints and scholars" -- and thus preserve Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians.
In this entertaining and compelling narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. Not only did Irish monks and scribes maintain the very record of Western civilization -- copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost -- they brought their uniquely Irish world-view to the task.
As Cahill delightfully illustrates, so much of the liveliness we associate with medieval culture has its roots in Ireland. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated.
In the tradition of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, How The Irish Saved Civilization reconstructs an era that few know about but which is central to understanding our past and our cultural heritage. But it conveys its knowledge with a winking wit that aptly captures the sensibility of the unsung Irish who relaunched civilization.
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"How the Irish Saved Civilization is a shamelessly engaging, effortlessly scholarly, utterly refreshing history of the origins of the Irish soul and its huge contribution to Western culture...For its portrait of St. Patrick alone, it will resonate in the memory."
--Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's List and The Great Shame
"Charming and poetic...lyrical, playful, penetrating and serious...An entirely engaging, delectable voyage into the distant past, a small treasure."
--The New York Times
"Cahill's lively prose breathes life into a 1,600-year-old history."
--Boston Globe
"A lovely and engrossing tale...Graceful and instructive."
--Los Angeles Times
"An utterly absorbing and entertaining chronicle of a virtually neglected episode in the annals of Western civilation."
--Booklist
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Remember the movie "Soylent Green?".........there were a bunch of old people that were saving the culture by saving books about the culture............and another movie where some people were the actual books because they were able to recite a given book word by word?..........and the new movie "Elia?", he knew the Bible word by word and was able to saved it from being lost.
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The Legend of King Arthur is directly related to all of this as well.
There is a movie, and it is based on real history, whether or not
King Arthur really existed or just a legendary account of this
history written in allegory of real events, the destruction of Rome,
civilization, a call for help to Rome to stop invaders, Rome responds,
a famous quote, you are on your own, we are destroyed, slowly
emergence from the dark ages brought by invaders pushed to
middle Europe by earth changing events and Hun Mongol invasions.
Constantine left this area as well, he saw the future and prepared.
Some podcasts I did, all of them overlap.
These are proper titles, search them, easy to find as torrents.
World of Byzantium (Kenneth W. Harl)
Era of the Crusades - Kenneth Harl
TMS - Empire of Gold, A History of the Byzantine Empire, Madden
Rome and the Barbarians
TTC - The Vikings
St. Patrick- The Patron Saint of Ireland
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I just dedicated this thread to Horn.
Apparently he is Irish.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Horn
Quote:
Originally Posted by DMac
Eisenhower was a demon.
I see the Greeks are starting to sway my Irish brothers with their Demagogy.
Let us just pray that we all too, don't fall prey to such nationalistic tendencies.
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Originally Posted by MAGNES
I just dedicated this thread to Horn.
Apparently he is Irish.
LOL
I can't speak for Horn but I'm half irish (half english) (have the birth records to prove it) and I appreciate this thread, I'm actually getting the book now so I will have a listen as time permits.
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Originally Posted by NordicBerserker
Quote:
Originally Posted by MAGNES
I just dedicated this thread to Horn.
Apparently he is Irish.
LOL
I can't speak for Horn but I'm half irish (half english) (have the birth records to prove it) and I appreciate this thread, I'm actually getting the book now so I will have a listen as time permits.
Well my Irish friend, The Fighting Irish, I am not surprised you are, those titles I gave are podcasts
you can find online easily, some are very big, they all overlap, some more interesting than
others, I listened to them as podcasts on my radio on my long drives in the last 2 summers, my new
radio has USB port I love, just plug in a microSD, what an education,
the Irish were big contributors to the birth of knowledge on the European Continent, very important
and significant history, real fighters and survivors, freedom fighters, Charles the Great did this as well
and the Byzantines, this history flies in the face of propaganda against Christian Europe, it is the
Christians that saved and spread knowledge that mattered despite other crimes and corruption.
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Originally Posted by MAGNES
I just dedicated this thread to Horn.
Apparently he is Irish.
You still deny my mother's maiden was Ferry?
Why, I pray?
As if some God is going to descend down from the heavens & clear up this misunderstanding.
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