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Show Were the Irish First te Soe America? In a book about to be published in Loudon the well known tradition of a pre-Columbus Irish settlement in America Amer-ica receives startling support. With the discovery of certain Arabian and Scandinavian Scan-dinavian maps in the Casanatenis library li-brary in Rome, the habitation of America Amer-ica by the Celts before Columbus arrived ar-rived purports to be established beyond Question. The fact that the finder of this interesting in-teresting information is a woman and the only one of her sex to be appointed by the Pope to assist the commission for the revision of the vulgate only serves to intensify the general interest in the work she is about to lay before the public. Mrs. Marion Mulhall. the author of "The Celtic Sources of the Dlvina Corn-media," Corn-media," and numerous other works, is the discoverer of the hithorto only fabled fa-bled account of an early invasion of America by the Irish. The maps which she uncovered among I the musty archives of the Casanatenis library are of unquestioned authenticity authentici-ty and show that not only did the Irish establish a Christian colony in America, Amer-ica, but they gave the name of their native land to that part of the new country which they occupied. j Elsewhere in the' book,- which bears j the title "Explorers in the New World Before Columbus," are chapters on navigators nav-igators of the sixteenth century. Irish commanders in Chile and Peru, Hiber-no-Spanish notables and various episodes epi-sodes and personalities connected with the romantic conouet of South America. Amer-ica. The book omits no important name er event, and for the first time gives their due meed- to the Irish soldiers and statesmen who have borne such a notable part in South American history. his-tory. The concluding; chapter deals with the rise and fall eif the Jesuit mission in Paraguay. Mrs. Mulhall, who enjoys the signal honor of being the only woman of any nationality to have received the Pope's unique commendation, is one of Ireland's Ire-land's most distinguished women. By this recognition of her genius for research re-search the Holy Father has conferred a well merited honor, so her countrymen country-men declare, on one of the most gifted women of the day. Mrs. Mulhall is the widow of the late Dr. Michael Mulhall, famous as a statistician. |