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The Everything Irish History & Heritage Book: From Brian Boru and St. Patrick to Sinn Fein and the Troubles, All You Need to Know About the Emerald Isle (Everything Series)

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This book is good for giving you a basic understanding of the chronology of events of Ireland's history. It's a nice easy read that gives you a basic understanding before you try to read some harder and more specific books on Irish history or politics.

I enjoyed parts of the book, but I felt it could of been more informative about the country, and told more exciting bits of the folklore of Ireland. It talked more about the History than anything else, and I feel skipped many points of interest and excitement that we could of been reading instead. If the History is what you expected, it would of been informative, but the other aspects were dissapointing.

A easy to read book to learn about the history of the Irish people centuries ago. It is pleasant reading that makes the subject interesting as well as factual.

I received this book as a gift and was put off right away by the garish cover and was even more disappointed by the content. It's a very simplistic outline of Irish history, complete with dumbed-down definitions of "Catholic" and "Presbyterian" for the edification of the reader, who really should be no older than 12 to appreciate the cartoon-like artwork in the book. Coloring-book style drawings of such notables as St. Patrick, Cromwell and a generic leprechaun are included. The text is littered with big letter "E's" (for Eire, get it?) that are supposed to indicate something important. I don't know why they just didn't title it Ireland for Dummies. That was obviously what the authors thought about their subject.