I am planting the seeds of the future of this site and giving Reddit Migrants escape pods to go and recreate their communities unhindered by corporate or political influence.
TL;DW - There are carvings, stories, genetic evidence, linguistic evidence, and historical accounts that collectively support the idea that contact by the Irish (and maybe other Europeans) occurred 1000 years before Columbus and this dude in Galway knew about it from trying and then might have been in cahoots with Columbus to go there, but Columbus took all the credit as an “accidental” discovery.
Mummy for Lummy?
This would make a great deep dive subject for someone with a lot of time on their hands for research.