Tir na nOg has been called shee. Some have called it Land of youth. More have called it Land of Our Youth or Our earlier Land, or the Land We Came From, or Our Home Land. I have called it the shee land across the sea.
We can call the above, About Ireland. I hope to add more about Ireland just below.
Can "sidhe" and ''shee" be synonymous or nearly so?
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Here, I will begin to write about the people of Ireland.
One of these people are the Fomorians. They are probably one of the very first people in and around Ireland as the ice melted. They were probably a pre flood people of advanced culture. They were seamen, navigators, and perhaps sea raiders. Some of them were among the very first immigrants to the Emerald Island. There is strong evidence of Fomorians before 600 BC. I believe that they were there very long before that time.
They have been described as bad, dark, Danann, good, light. It is said that Partholon won a battle against them. It seem that they lost few battles.
Lugh was half Fomorian. Balor was a leader of Fomorians and built a fort for Bres. Indech mac de was king of Fomorians at the time.
There is more to say about these sea going people and I will try to add more about them right here.
Another early people of Ireland may be call Fir Bolg, Fir Blog may be translatable as bag men. The Fir Bolg may have known Greece. Nemid is said to have "fathered" them.
These Bolg divided the Island into provinces, like counties. We can begin to know the names of these people as we speak of these provinces. For example, Gan takes North Munster, Sengann takes south Munster, Genann takes what becomes Connacht, Rudraige takes what becomes Ulster, Slanga takes Leinster. The first High Kings of Ireland were the five takers of provinces.
Some have said that their father was related to Nemid. Their father may have been called Della.
Of the brothers Slaine may have rued in Leinster 1748 BC to 1703 BC. Ganann, son of Dela, and his brother Genann are said to have landed at Iber Dubglaaise and to have split Munster between them.
Gann and Genann were followed by Sengann, who was followed by Fiacha Cennfinnan. Sengann ruled from between about 1927 BC and 1507 BC to between 1921 BC and 1502 BC.
I intend to write more about Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Danann, Milesians, and perhaps others right here, updating these notes.
Some miscellany that it may be worth remembering are that Bress was a Danann king with Fomorian relatives. Prince Elatha of the Fomorians was the father of Bress.
Bress or Bres was High King of Ireland either from 1897 BC to 1890 BC or from 1477 Bc to 1470 BC. He was proceeded by Eochaid and succeeded Nuada.
They were in Ireland just before a people called the Danann.
The Fir Bolg left captivity in Greece and headed west via Iberia and continued to their ancient land of Ireland.
I know I am rambling about early Irish history and will probably continue to do so. I could ramble into some curious and interesting doings and happenings.
This may be a good place to begin to write about the Dan people. I'll call them Danann for now while I do some speculation.
I am beginning to believe that Irish and Dan fought on the side of the Phoenician against the advance of Roman legions. It seems impossible not to believe that the Danann were so real and alive that many Bronze Age Irish were related to them. I would like to know if there is anyway the Judaic tribe of Dan can be related to the Irish Danaan. And I am even suspecting connections between the Danes of Denmark and the great blue Danube. Help me out if you can and will.
I could use some company in trying to understand some of these relationships. It seems certain that Phoenician and Irish early became well known to one another.
There is a lot to learn we could go on to see if there is more evidence of the Scythian being known to Scot and Irish; Could Scott and Irish be pre-Celtic relatives who retained a conscious from before and through the Iron Age. There is a lot to learn and lots of dates to firm up.
I have lots of related areas I would like to know more about. Like how did the Iberian Peninsula come to be called the Iberian Peninsula and what could that have to do with Irish and Hebrew?
It will be interesting to get more clarifying info about early connections between Ireland and and Eastern Med cultures and beyond.
Here I may try t4o put together a few bits of information connected to that which the early Irish had to say about the early Irish. The Fomorian might prove interesting.
Here is a first attempt to list the groups of people who came to the Island.
Greeks were among the early comers and the came long before the Phoenicians were comers, but I do not know where to put them in the following list. I am not proud of this list, but I offer it as my first try at useful names and realistic order:
Fomorian
Nenidian
Fir
Dannan
Milesian
That's it my first list. I do want Milesian to stay as my most recent comer and the Tuatha De Dannan to come just before them. But what should I do with people of Cessair, people of Partholon, and people of Nemed?
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