Atlantis... well, well, what next? On a technical point: 'we were the the only entire country to stay strong (the Golden Age)' We were not a unified country at that time. There were about 150 tuaithe (independent kingdoms) on the island. Really, the notion of one Ireland only became a reality during the early seventeenth century, when the loss of the nine years war paved the way for a total English takeover. Ah, the lessons of history! How much of an 'entire country' is Ireland now, I wonder? I was aware of those points; what I meant was that, there was an advanced civilization here (remember the ancient Greeks were never united under one government either), while on the Continent, there was period where even the most basic institutions (barring, of course, the Church), did not exist- the Dark Age was basically a period of total anarchy.