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The first deals with the Five Races that invaded or colonized Ireland: Partholanians, Nemedians, Firbolgs, Gods, and Irish; in all of it I suspect the faint memories and membra disjecta of old, old manvantaras: indeed, the summing up of the history of created man. You will have noted that the number of the races, as in Theosophic teaching, is five.
Why, then, does Ireland identify itself with the one race, and discard the other as "foreign foes"? Because the Partholanians represent the first human race, but the Fomoroh or 'Water-men' were unhuman, and a kind of lusus naturae.
Mr. Judge's Bryan Kinnavan stories indicate that it was a grand stronghold of the former. The Nemedians were akin to the Partholanians: the Second Race to the First, both mindless: they came after their predecessors had all died out; and in their turn died or departed to the last man. So we find in The Secret Doctrine that the first two humanities passed utterly and left no trace.
But when the Partholanians fought with and defeated these Fomoroh, they were said to have "freed Ireland from a foreign foe"; this though the Fomorians were there first, and though the Partholanians were "invaders," and utterly ceased to be after a time, so that no drop of their blood runs in Irish veins.
This, too, is an echo of the secret doctrine; and incidentally indicates how tremendously far back that first invasion was thought to have been. The Partholanians came into Ireland from the Great Plain, the "Land of the Living," as the Irish called it, which is also the Land of the Dead: in other words, they came into this world, and not from another part of it.
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