Reviews for Blonds Law Guides

The average rating for Blonds Law Guides based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-05-18 00:00:00 Luis Dodson Obviously as an historical overview of Ireland from the neolithic period until today, this is not the most detailed and thorough history ever written, but with that in mind this is a very good history of Ireland. The book is broken up largely in chronological chapters, with the most chapters and detail focused on the 19th and 20th centuries--particularly the Famine and the build up to Irish independence. Then the last two chapters present the history of the Republic and Northern Ireland respectively since the partition. The book has generally good detail, providing a lot of information about the political, military, and colonial history of Ireland throughout time. However, this is definitely not a social history or anything like that, so while there are brief discussions of the status of women, or changes in labor, and so on, most of the history is political, martial, and about English/British colonialism.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-12-30 00:00:00 Claudio Varnerin A short history, but it was easy to get bogged down in all the detail of government elections, cabinets, etc., that occurred in the 1900s. I'm currently reading a historical fiction series on Ireland that spans the 1900s, so it was interesting to read the actual history and compare to the series for historical accuracy. I will say that this particular book needed a better proofreader - too many places had some very glaring punctuation and word placement errors, which I found very distracting.