| An Leabhar Gabala (The Book of Invasions, c. | | | | leaders, establishing themselves as the dominant class. |
| eleventh century) details the origins of the Gaelic | | | | TF O'Rahilly proposed that the descent of the kings of |
| people. They descended from the Goideal Glas, who | | | | Ireland from the kings of Mil is a fiction created to |
| came from Scythia (a vast area covering present day | | | | provide legitimacy for the Goidels who invaded Irealand |
| Ukraine, South West Russia and Central Asia), and | | | | in the second century BC, giving them the same origin |
| Scota, a daughter of an Egyptian Pharaoh. Their | | | | as the people they dominated. As late as the |
| descendants left Egypt at the time of the Exodus of | | | | seventeenth century Geoffrey Keating utilised the |
| Moses, they wandered until they arrived in the Iberian | | | | myth to promote the claim of the Stuart dynasty to |
| Peninsula, where they settled. Breogan built a tower at | | | | reign over Ireland, demonstrating that Charles I was |
| Brigantia (in present day Galicia) from the top of which | | | | descended through Brian Boru, Eber and Galamh, from |
| his son Ith first saw Ireland. Ith made an expedition to | | | | Noah and from Adam. |
| Ireland but was killed by the Tuatha De Dannan, in | | | | |
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