"A prime starter kit. Author Neil Hegarty artfully encapsulates this land of saints and scholars from 433 BC to 2010." --Boston Globe
"A fresh recasting of Irish history...A finely researched and timely celebration of Ireland's turbulent history and conservative people." --
Publishers Weekly "A balanced overview of the history of Ireland...Hegarty highlights the complexities underlying Ireland's ongoing conflicts...Recommended for general readers seeking a thourough, nonpartisan guide to...the history of this...country." --
Booklist "A most impressive sweep through the preceding centuries ...An engrossing and highly readable account of the sweep of Irish history." --
The Irish Sunday Independent "A new view of history...Everyone should read this." --
Evening Herald (UK) "An engaging, entertaining, and accessible history...Captures the complex state of a nation." --
RTEGuide (UK) "Hegarty's book is an admirably even-handed one, and though ... it may be generations before a 'new national memory' replaces the ingrained chronicle of repression and reprisal, we should be grateful for such an intelligent attempt to hasten it." --
Tablet (UK)
