What a wonderful informative book of Irish history, The good The bad and The ugly.
I like the authors direct approach to researching and telling the reader what he found that supports or refutes stories and myths that have been handed down. I like his this is what I believe happened approach to re-writing history.
David Willis McCullough has edited and combined many, many original texts of Wars of the Irish Kings (so goes the title) that can be interesting, frustrating, dull or very dull depending on the particular source used. It is a little jarring to go from one of the source writers to another as their styles are often different and the short length of the excerpts does not allow enough time to get used to a particular format or way of expressing ideas before it is time to move on.
Interesting portrayal of the different leaders of Ireland. A book that I read because of my growing interest in the Irish heritage...
I can't say that it is a boring book, but I can't seem to stay interested. The translations maintain an archaic style without being unclear, and the explanations are interesting, but the subject is exactly what the title says, and I'm just not feeling it.
