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Carmel McCaffrey

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Dublin, Ireland, Ireland

Genre

History, Nonfiction

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Carmel McCaffrey is an Irish author and lecturer on Irish history, literature, culture, and language at Johns Hopkins University and at the Smithsonian Institution in Baltimore, Maryland.

She was born in Dublin and now lives in Mount Airy, Maryland. She is an Irish speaker and frequently travels to Ireland.

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Average rating: 3.98 · 962 ratings · 72 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	In Search of Ancient Ireland: The Origins of the Irish from Neolithic Times to the Coming of the English by Carmel McCaffrey, Leo Eaton 3.98 avg rating — 885 ratings — published 2002 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Search of Ireland's Heroes: The Story of the Irish from the English Invasion to the Present Day really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“God got angry at humanity for daring to build a tower to reach heaven. He made everyone speak different languages so no one understood anyone else. But this Irishman went around and talked to all the different people—unfortunately the story doesn't say how he did this—but he and his colleagues took the best bits of all the newly created languages and put them back together to create Irish. The inference is, 'We should write in Irish because it's made up of all the best bits of language created by God at the Tower of Babel. It's really the original language, so they must be speaking Irish in heaven.”
― Carmel McCaffrey, In Search of Ancient Ireland: The Origins of the Irish from Neolithic Times to the Coming of the English

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“Ireland has the oldest literature in Europe in a native language.”
― Carmel McCaffrey, In Search of Ancient Ireland: The Origins of the Irish from Neolithic Times to the Coming of the English

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“Today the Book of Kells is housed in Trinity College, Dublin, where it is displayed to tourists in its own interpretive center at the university. The book is in a protective glass case, and a new page is turned each day.”
― Carmel McCaffrey, In Search of Ancient Ireland: The Origins of the Irish from Neolithic Times to the Coming of the English

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