Did you mean Devenish Island?
One of the oldest conspiracy theories, and one that makes chemtrails
look like Nobel Prize-winning research.
There is a story going around, and I’m embarrassed that a close relative
has fallen under its spell, that Jeremiah did come to Ireland, and that he
brought with him two (or another number of) Jewish princesses, the
daughters of Zedekiah, the last king of Judah, at least one of whom, Tea-
Tephi, married a figure in Irish legend, Heremon. While in Ireland,
Jeremiah supposedly took the name Ollamh Fodla.
This is a story that appears in British-Israelite literature. The British-
Israelite movement held/holds the belief that the people of the British
Isles (but especially Northern Ireland and England) are direct
descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel, and, most specifically, that the
Royal Family of Great Britain is descended from King David, via Tea-
Tephi, whose Irish descendants somehow married into British royalty.
They make spurious links, e.g., the Tuatha Dé Danaan were actually the
Tribe of Dan (rather than the ‘People of the Goddess Dana’, as it is
literally rendered), and many of their claims about British-Israelite history
are self-referential, appearing nowhere but in other British-Israelite
works.
Supposedly - for a wonder - the Jeremiah/Tea-Tephi stories are
‘confirmed’ in the Annals of the Four Masters. However,
The Annals is a late Mediaeval text, not contemporaneous,
While the Annals do mention Ollamh Fodla and Heremon, nowhere is it
suggested that this has anything to do with Jeremiah, and
A simple viewing of the text pretty much proves that these individuals
could not have had anything to do with Jeremiah.
Jeremiah is believed to have lived 6th century BC. Ollamh Fodla, as he
was supposedly known in Ireland, founded a great centre of learning,
instituted the Assemblies of Tara, fought many battles, reigned for 40
years, and left 4 sons to found the dynasty that would become the kings
of Ulster - not bad going for a man who was a doddering old coot at the
time he arrived in Ireland. For some reason, the Annals do not record
Ollamh Fodla’s greatest achievement, which was the invention of a time
machine to bring Jeremiah to Ireland a couple of centuries before his
own birth, nor do they record how an elderly Jewish prophet managed to
convince Fiach of the House of Ir that he, Jeremiah, was Fiach’s son.
The Annals are also silent on whether Jeremiah sent Princess Tea-Tephi
back a further 1,000 years, give or take, in order to meet and enamour
Heremon, or whether the happy couple were introduced by Jeremiah’s
new daddy, Fiach. Heremon, one of the original Milesian settlers of
Ireland, has been dated to 1200 or 1700 BC, which is surely either a love-
story to span the ages or the worst case of cradle-snatching ever.
Personally, I’d like to know why, if he became High King of Ireland, didn’t
a professional God-botherer like Jeremiah impose Judaism on the Irish.
It’s also a bit bizarre that the Irish Israelites, if indeed they ever existed,
never seem to have felt the same pull of the Promised Land that other
Jews feel. I mean, Ireland’s great and all, but the weather in Tel Aviv is
well better any time of year…
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