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you are here: > The Book of the Cuileann (Holly)
> Chapter 06
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Chapter 6 | |
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What then of the land of the Cualann, the hills, the plain? | |
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The Four Masters weave their skill to this very day. | |
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They paint the Cualann and the land not as the oldest, | |
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but coming after the age of the Tuatha De Dananns. | |
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Surely such trickery would be outed? | |
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Alas, the Annals are clear. | |
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For while they paint the the gods and kings Eramon and Eber ruling Ireland, | |
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no soul is accounted for the name Cualann. | |
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as if they were ghosts. | |
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Before the Mil. Before the Milesians. | |
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At the beginning of time, they place the Cualann, | |
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not a gods, nor as men, but as an empty house, | |
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A name without an owner, | |
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A story without a tale. | |
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In the year claimed in the age of the world of 3501, | |
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the Annals that Eremon did built a fort in the territory of the Cualann at Crich (final) Cualann. | |
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is claimed that great hero of much literature Amergin did make the causeway Inbher mor, | |
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in the territory of the Cualann. | |
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So too is claimed the erection of the fort of Deilginnsi, | |
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in the territory of Cualann, by Sedgha. | |
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Again and again, the land is spoken by name and title. | |
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Surely one scholar of note has an ounce of courage and sense to connect the Cualann and the Holly. | |
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Surely they must have been someone of importance for the heart of Ireland to be named after them. | |
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The lost druids as the term of denigration used today? | |
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The first teachers, the poets, the priests, the first kings? | |
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Alas, truth to the Cualann is cursed by rotten silence. | |
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And even a brief respite through the story of Uchadan, a master goldsmith of the Feara Cualann | |
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Under Tighearnmas who we are told was the first to smelt gold in Ireland. | |
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From the gods of modern history choose not a whisper. | |
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For the remains of the gold and its rush are there. | |
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And gold of the Cualann is found from Spain to Egypt. |
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From Asia to India. | |
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The truth of the land does not lie. | |
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The Hills of Wicklow, the land of the Cualann, the Cuileann reveals its secrets. | |
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Real treasure was discovered there in the darkest of days, | |
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That can never lose its shine. | |
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Yet the gods of history honour their forebears. |
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For few know that Ireland was the first to bring gold to Europe. | |
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With wisdom and knowledge of the Cualann. | |
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So precious the words, so powerful the Gold that forever since men have seen magic and power in it, | |
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Religions have fought for its control | |
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And many a modern scholar has blindly believed | |
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ancient treasure to be wealth, not wisdom. | |
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