Dwight Longenecker
Could the Duhare of North America have been the descendants of Irish explorers who ventured across the Atlantic long before the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria set sail?

Maybe it’s the Amish in me, but there’s an ornery streak that delights in eccentric theories, provoking the establishment, undermining the accepted narrative, pondering alternative histories, and subverting the certain certainties.
Many will be familiar with alternative theories about the discovery of the New World. Was it really Christopher Columbus who first set foot in the Americas or was it the Vikings? What about St Brendan the Navigator—the sixth-century Irish monk who some think sailed in his curragh across the Atlantic? His fantastic adventure was immortalized in the ninth-century Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis, which tells of sea creatures, a floating crystal pillar, and various mystical islands, including one thought to be a giant whale.
Could St Brendan have made it across the Atlantic in a curragh? British author/explorer Tim Severin thought so. In the 70s he researched medieval Irish boat building and constructed a craft that did indeed take him across the Atlantic, and told the tale in his best seller The Brendan Voyage.
Were Brendan and his monks the last Irishmen to find their way to North America? What if there were others and they didn’t go home to Ireland? Some Spanish explorers in the 1520s made an unusual discovery: Moving their way up the coast from Florida they discovered the Duhare tribe.
In 1520 Peter Martyr d’Anghiera, an Italian historian and professor, was appointed by King Charles V of Spain to chronicle the discoveries in the New World. In 1522, he interviewed explorers Francisco de Chicora, Gordillo, Quejo and Ayllón who had explored Florida and the coastal regions North to what is now the area of Charleston, South Carolina.  » Read More
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