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    <body><![CDATA[Not a light, easy read, although it is easier to read than any history text I have had to tackle. I am reading this for pleasure, and it is an enjoyable book. It is written in a fast paced, novel-like style, but it is very involved and will take a while to finish.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I started reading this book about 10 years ago, but never got past the first couple of chapters. I'm not sure why, but I think it had to do mainly with the author's stilted and grandiose language, making it seem more like a propaganda work (which it surely was, being written during the Irish Civil W...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33235664">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As one review said, this book is written for Americans who know dittily about Irish history, myself included.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Here is the whole saga of the Irish from earliest times to the present. Learn about Irish history, culture, religion, laws, arts, antiquities, folklore, trade, literature, heroes, and more. Although a work of sound scholarship, it is as easy to read as a superb novel.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[i found a $20 bill on page 100 while looking at it at powells bookstore, so i bought it]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The whole saga of the Irish from earliest times to the present -- the various races from the time of Firbolg and the quest and occupation by the Milesians Spain through the various invasions; history, culture, religion, laws, arts, ties, folklore, trade, literature, heroes Fein, Easter Uprising, etc.  Sketches a rough and ready picture of the more prominent peaks that rise out of Ireland's past-the high spots in the story of the Irish race. Written especially for the American reader (whom the author found to be as unknowing about Ireland's past as about the past of Borneo)...  --alibris   ...  'Indispensable for anyone who wants to understand the Irish people--their political struggle, their magnificent literature, and their whole great contribution to Western Civilization, a contribution amazing in its richness and variety.&quot;  --from jacket flap.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pedantic approach but intersting and complete history of the Irish People]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[To understand modern Ireland one must understand the history of Ireland. Its legends, religious and political life, culture, and wider contributions to the world remain linked to its rich past. In The Story of the Irish Race, popular writer and storyteller Seumas MacManus provides a wide-ranging look at the development of Ireland and its people. Beginning with the early colonization by the Milesius of Spain, MacManus explores ancient stories about the Tuatha De Danann, Cuchullain, Fionn and the Fian, Irish invasions of Britain, St. Bridget and St. Patrick, Irish missionaries and scholars abroad, and life and culture in ancient and medieval Ireland. He also investigates more recent events and names in Irish history, such as Oliver Cromwell, &quot;The Wild Geese,&quot; Wolfe Tone, Daniel O'Connell, the Fenians, the Famine, Charles Stewart Parnell, and the Land League. From its earliest days to the Easter Rising, MacManus provides an entertaining and enlightening look at one of the most fascinating cultures we know.  SEUMAS MacMANUS was a prolific Donegal-based author who published a number of books in the U.S., including Donegal Fairy Stories, In Chimney-Corners, The Donegal Wonder-Book, The Well o' the World's End, and A Lad of the O'Friels. He contributed stories to some of the leading magazines of his day, including Harper's and The Century. He was married to Anna Johnson, who, under the pen name Ethna Carbery, published two volumes of verse, The Passionate Heart and The Four Winds of Erin.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Can be slow at times, but worthwhile if you make your way through it.]]></body>
    
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