218 pages.I was recommended this book by James Hallman, the same James Hallman that did not visit me in Yellowstone.
Anyways when he mentioned the book numerous jokes swelled in my mind. "That must be a short book." "Is it science-fiction?" But to my pleasant surprise it was a pleasing book on history and mostly early Irish culture and how it came about to evangelize Europe in the Dark Ages. I kind of ruined the mystery of the book, but they saved civilization by reintroducing ancient literature and Christianity to Europe. Many of the early monasteries were the direct result of a group of Irish monks going abroad.
The title of the book has a light case of hyperbole. How would we be different if not for the Irish? That is something hard to tell. Questions like that are never posed by Thomas Cahill, instead he goes about gently elucidating certain cultural traits of the Irish that made them Europe's great redeemers.
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