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Does Irish music have North African origins?

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The Atlantean Theory of Irish Origin

I'd love to think that inth in the late 17 hundreds, folk and trinityand sailors and and people from from antrom could actually speak with each other. But thats, it just seems a bit unlikely. What i do find fascinating, and i do think there is some something worth investigating and giving credence to, is the musical element. When that fellow was reading out the koran in the library and singing it, and then the irishman comes in an it and is able to sing it a dirge from the south of ireland, that sounds so similar. That's what excites me. There would have been tunisian sailors, but a british

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