Science: Old Irish

While total war flames around Eire, Irish archeologists have peacefully dug into their country's prehistory. In 1934 some 30 excavation projects were set going by the Irish Government, to make work for laborers as well as to illuminate Eire's antiquity. Last week, with the 1940 season wound up at Lough Gur in County Limerick, word came from there that a continuous chain of human habitations had been traced back—through the Norman and Viking invasions, through the Bronze Age to the Stone Age—to the oldest known village site in Eire. It was dated at 2400...

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