In 1899, a group representing the so-called British-Israelite movement descended upon the ancient ceremonial burial site at the Hill Of Tara in County Meath, Ireland. This band of eccentric pseudo-archaeologists believed that the Anglo-Saxon British were the true descendants of the ten Lost Tribes of Israel, and that the fabled Arc Of The Covenant was hidden beneath this ancient Irish site. But they came up against some of the biggest names of the Irish celtic revival movement, then in full swing, to whom the Hill Of Tara was also of extreme symbolic significance.
Join Cian for a beer and a story at the cabin in the woods. By what twisted logic did these kooks connect themselves to the Ten Tribes? What is the appropriate song to use to ward off colonialist tomb raiders? And why did WB Yeats push Aleister Crowley down the stairs of the Golden Dawn temple in London? Find out in BRITISH ISRAELITES AND THE HUNT FOR THE ARK OF THE COVENANT IN IRELAND.
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British Israelism by J Wilson, 1968
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-954X.1968.tb01291.x
Tara And The Ark Of The Covenant by Maireid Carew & Aisling Flood, 2003
https://www.ria.ie/tara-and-ark-covenant
The History Of The Ten Lost Tribes by David Baron, 1915
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Ten_%22Lost%22_Tribes
Demolishing The Myths At Tara, Irish Times, 1998
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/demolishing-the-myths-at-tara-1.158532
Voices From The Dawn, Howard Goldbaum