The first person to ever arrive in Ireland was a girl called Cesair, granddaughter of Noah. The legend revealed to her knowledge that there were no snakes in Ireland and the only possibility would have been their bringing from the Garden of Eden. She brought fifty maidens and three men- one man called Finntann. Next came Neimheadh, a Fomorian settler whose race of the sea was led by a fierce woman. His descendants left the country and went to Greece where they spent four hundred years carrying soil up mountains in bags for terraced gardens. They came to be known as the Firbolgs and returned to Ireland with the Fomorians before they were invaded by the strange race with magical powers called the Tuatha de Danaan.

The Isle of Eri came to be known from Eri of the Tuatha de Danaan. They brought the Stone of Destiny; the stone Jacob used for a pillow when he dreamed of the ladder to Heaven. Irish kings were crowned on it until one of them took it to Scotland. Then after 3,000 years the Celts came to Ireland. They were known as the Milesians, or the Children of Mil. One day, prince Ith sighted Ireland from the top of the town Briganza in Spain. He landed in Donegal and found the three sons of the King Dagda quarelling. Ith who if was not a myth of destiny, is the prototype of the Celtic visionary.

Ireland came into existence in one day, 8,000 years ago. It was populated by refugees from floods in China. Towards the end of the last Ice Age there was a great westward movement, migrations, have been the groundswell between waves of history; the rise of the Han dynasty and the arrival on the shores of the Danube. Their stone implements for farming rather than hunting was sought to exist between homesteaders and ranchers of the American West. It resulted in the hunters retreating into the north and west of Europe, now being released by the glaciers and reawakening to life. By 6000 BC, some of them had reached Scotland when it was attached to Ireland by a narrow land bridge until the glaciers melted faster from the level of the sea.

The first prehistoric settlements in Ireland have been traced to Counties Antrim and Down. The settlers found surroundings of forested pine and oak and melting ice which ran into marshes with packs of wolves and wild boar. The occasional Irish elk may have been left over from the semi-arctic days compared to nowadays, green slopes and blue hills where a once forest blocked the horizon. Along with fish, progression through use of copper and bronze to iron was everywhere else in Europe.