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azuresparky 's review for:
This book is a good start if you want a general overview of Irish history before delving deeper into specific topics. Any book that covers 2000ish years of history in about 400 pages is going to be simply an overview. The downside for a non Irish reader is that it is written for an Irish audience, so they take for granted that you know certain things and people (as another reviewer mentioned a glossary for the non Irish might be helpful in the next edition). The early history is a good basis but the modern era chapters were written in a very apolitical fashion and ends up being a rather dry listing of who held what role in government when without a lot of the relevant context.