These discussions about Barry Fell took place in late 1997. Yes, Barry was quite a character, a man of almost mythic proportions. His tireless dedication to his work was legendary. He often created big waves of publicity for himself and his work, and he inspired thousands of people to follow in his path, some of whom believed in him almost as if he was a guru of some sort. Perhaps one may say that his ego was quite proportionate to his undoubtable talents... And he was quite capable of cutting a few corners here and there in his research if he was "sure as sure can be" that he had The Answer to yet another obscure problem of ancient history.

Yet his substantial achievements in the area of transoceanic research seem clear to me.
• Here's my general opinion about Barry Fell.
• Here's my reply to what Ross Clark posted about Barry.
• This is a long and important post by Hu about Barry.
• In this reply to Bruce L. Grubb, I focus on Barry's general contribution to scholarship, as well as on Barry's very unique research on oghams.
• Another discussion with Ross Clark on the subject. Why do the mainstream academics love to hate Barry so much?
  

• A continuation of my discussion with Ross. Here I'm bringing up one of Barry's little known contributions in the specific area of Polynesian history, where Ross is very knowledgeable. This is the subject of the rather mysterious Carolines islands script.
• This concludes our discussion with Ross. Barry seemed to have discovered that the Carolines islands script is far older than the mainstream historians and linguists suppose. Ross seemed to think that there's something valid to this...

  Of course there were many more posts in that late '97 discussion about Barry. Most of them can be found in DejaNews.