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Does Irish music have North African origins?

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The Lower Gabala Aron - A Mythical Text About the Origin of the Irish

The traditional understanding of how people got to ireland, cause we're an island. That's like the way britain was populated. But so you've got the lowergabala airan written in 400 which is a mythical text about the origin of the irish. And then 400 years before that, there's a fakan monkey from morocco in a fort in naven. So he didn't just land from space. Someone had to go to morocco, or someone was from moroc co and brought the monkey with him to the north of ireland. iwold be shocked if that's an isolated incident.

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