Compendium of World History - Volume 1 - Chapter Eighteen - 1967

Herman L Hoeh

At first thought it may appear unusual that the Emerald Isle should have a recorded history far older than Rome. There is a reason. Unlike Italy, for example, which for centuries felt the ravages of foreign invaders who drove out, in successive waves, each predecessor, Ireland remained under the continuous dominion of one people. Irish history begins, not with the Tower of Babel, but at the end of the flood. Irish history is the only literature which specifically connects Israel with its past. It has long been assumed that late monks invented this relationship under Catholic influence. Nothing could be further from the truth. Catholic influence elsewhere never associated the ancient world with Israel — except the obvious case of Egypt. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library