Irish nationalist antiquarian and (mytho-)historical, literary, political, folklore, racial, and other range of commentaries about Ireland through the medium of “Iranian” referentialities (past and present) were among the many divergent instances of locating Ireland in a world historical setting. Both full-fledged and residual traces of theories of “oriental” origins of the Irish reappeared well into the early twentieth century, but with rapidly diminished frequency and declining power of persuasion, at least in Irish historical circles. Such works were still being produced during the Irish War of Independence (1919–21) and even after the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922. A case in point is the references to Scythians, Egyptians, and Phoenicians, in Seumas MacManus’ 1921 The Story of the Irish Race. This was despite the fact that such theories were compellingly cast aside as legendary and mythological in the new historiographic models that emerged in Ireland after the latter decades of the nineteenth century and were further reinforced by the likes of Patrick Weston Joyce, Eoin MacNeill, Mary Teresa Hayden and George Aloysius Moonan, or Alice Stopford Green in the early twentieth century. In her 1925 History of the Irish State to 1014, Alice Stopford Green noted the past appeal of legendary accounts of ancient Ireland by casting her glance over a much broader time frame than just the period since the eighteenth century: