The 17th century Irish historian Roderick O'Flaherty continued the claim of the that the Irish descended from the Scythians in his history of Ireland titled , in which he identified Fénius Farsaid with the figure of Phoenix, who in Greek mythology was believed to have created the Phoenician alphabet. O'Flaherty elaborated on this by claiming that Fénius Farsaid also invented the Ogham script and the early Greek alphabet from which the Latin alphabet evolved.
The 17th century Irish historian Roderick O'Flaherty continued the claim of the that the Irish descended from the Scythians in his history of Irel,and titled , in which he identified Fénius Farsaid with the figure of Phoenix who in Greek mythology was believed to have created the Phoenician alphabet. O'Flaherty elaborated on this by claiming that Fénius Farsaid also invented the Ogham script and the early Greek alphabet from which the Latin alphabet evolved.