Chronicles of Eri

The Chronicles of Eri; Being the History of the Gaal Sciot Iber: or, the Irish People; Translated from the Original Manuscripts in the Phoenician Dialect of the Scythian Language is an 1822 book in two volumes by Roger O'Connor (1762–1834), purporting to detail the history of the Irish from the creation of the world.

The work contains multiple plates and maps and is prefaced with the author naming himself "head of his race" and "chief of the prostrated people of this nation".

[2] The first volume is presented as a translation of text written by "Eolus", who was "chief of the Gael-ag" from 1368-35 BC which is said to be fifty years after Moses.

Of the supposed original Phoenician manuscripts, the only evidence O'Connor ever produced for examination was an 18 in (460 mm)-long scroll purporting to be "a facsimile of part of the great roll of the Laws of Eri",[3] currently held in the John Rylands Library of the University of Manchester.

"[5] Alfred Webb in his A Compendium of Irish Biography (1878) was less charitable, deeming the Chronicles of Eri to be "a piece of gross literary forgery.