A wonderfully objective view of the history of Ireland. The author explains how both folklore and writers - Trollope, Yeats, Elizabeth Bowen and later Gerry Adams and Frank McCourt - have embellished the Irish 'story' so that it is often closer to myth than reality. As most of my recent and distant forbears were Irish, I found this book absorbing and particularly recommend it to any readers who have Irish blood in their veins!
(Wendy Swann - bwl 18 April 2003 ) |
