The Flood and The Fire update

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

The Flood and The Fire update

As you might have guessed, The Flood and The Fire has been postponed. I have not done any more writing on the book for the past nine months. My publisher feels that the book market is very depressed and that we should hold off until things pick up. I will keep you updated if there is any change in this situation.

In the meantime, I am working on formulating some other new publishing projects which I will keep you posted about in due course.

Thanks for your patience.

Anthony Murphy

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The Flood and The Fire

The Flood and The Fire examines cosmogony and eschatology from the perspective of Irish myth and prophecy. What can Ireland's legends and mythology tell us of the beginning, or the creation, and indeed the end, the apocalypse, armageddon? While there is no single "creation myth" in the Irish texts, there is much about flooding, and even links to the Noah flood myth.

Ireland, the 'Island of the Setting Sun', is considered Atlantis by some scholars and authors, and there is much to be discovered about antediluvian civilisation in the copious texts and myths. But these texts are rich, too, in prophecy, some of it relating to future events and the end of the world.

The Saints, too, play their part, and a re-examination of the life of Saint Patrick gives us some interesting perspectives on eschatological study. The Irish, it seems, are set for a unique doom at the end of time.

The following quote is from Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel by Ignatius Donnelly. While not an Irish work, it signifies a worldwide belief that the world will end in fire: "In the same way there is an untaught but universal feeling which makes all mankind regard comets with fear and trembling, and which unites all races of men in a universal belief that some day the world will be destroyed by fire."

Wednesday, March 10, 2010