The Great Book of Ireland: Interesting Stories, Irish History & Random Facts About Ireland (History & Fun Facts)

This book will get you in the mood for St.Patrick's Day. I discovered many things about Ireland I didn't know. My only problem with this book was a few editing errors, but they didn't take away from the book overall just slowed my reading down in about three or four spots. One thing that this book did was give me a glance into the rich history of Ireland and make me want to go there for a visit. I think I will enjoy St. Patrick's day a little bit more this year.

No reason to dislike Irish stories and trivia. An interesting people are the Irish and yes I am American with some Irish in my ancestry.

Great book full of lots of interesting and fascinating facts about the Emerald Isle. The book is well-organized, filled with lots of useful trivia. The writing was plain and straight-forward written, which I did enjoy, though some might think it was written at a too level for them. I did not. I do not like being overwhelmed with esoteric facts, phrases or vocabulary, which I have to stop to puzzle over. One thing that did distract me were the many grammatical and copy writing errors, which makes me wonder why the author did not use an editor for his book—or find someone to go through it with a fine-tooth comb to clean up some of the errors. My own background is not Irish, but my husband’s background is, so I took this opportunity to share some of the information I gleaned with the grand-kids and their parents on St. Patrick’s Day. In my opinion, it made the day just a little bit better. I hope to keep the book and use it whenever I am looking for something different, or whenever I am trying to help the family learn more about their heritage. I received this from Library Thing to read and review.

Author Bill O’Neill has a definite proficiency when it comes to compiling the myriad of useful and educational trivia books he’s published so far. While all of them have been meticulously organized to enhance the reading experience, his Great Book of the various states series I feel is his best since they each epitomizes how great America already is. In each of his Great State books the author sticks to a proven format which consists of the following six chapters [albeit the order might be somewhat different]: In each of the six chapters this book contains: 1- State’s History 2- State’s Pop Culture 3- State’s Attractions 4- State’s Inventions, Ideas and More 5- State’s Biggest Haunts, Supernatural and Other Weird Facts 6- State’s Sports Mr. O’Neill begins each chapter by taking an item regarding its topic and gives his readers a brief, yet informative description of about it, this is followed by some random facts, which is then culminated by his giving some questions related to the information which the chapter has just given, naturally the answers are given as well. With six states already written, Mr. O’Neill has decided to move on to writing books on an International level; and what country had he chosen to write about first. I believe, he has befittingly chosen to write about the country of his apparent ancestry, that of Ireland; and in doing so, has chosen to stick to this same format. And to get an idea of the multitude of items the author has written about, all one needs to do is to read the author’s own description, or better yet, peruse the preview pages for a complete listing of the topics being discussed in the pages of this book. For given his readers and myself, an enlightening trivia book about the country and people of Ireland, without giving any blarney in the process, I’m happy to give the author, Bill O’Neill, the 5 STAR he’s receiving.

I enjoyed the book. I enjoyed traveling to Ireland many years ago. I wish the Author wrote more about Ulster. I was traveling with Irish citizens when I in the Republic of Ireland but I would have had to go to Northern Ireland alone. Being Irish-American, me traveling with two native Irishmen accompanying an Irish American would have been difficult to explain to the British soldiers at the border. The book, happily, doesn't get bogged down in Irish politics.

This book is great! It made me aware of places I didn't know existed and facts about the landmarks. It even tickled my interest by giving me history so that I did further research. I can't wait to go!!

Purchased this for a school project. My grandson enjoyed the history facts.

Very Interesting. I love reading it. I love learning new things about places I Love.

Love the big print, and look forward to reading it.

Excellent read. I read it twice

Echo en falta alguna curiosidad más, pero es muy difícil incluirlo todo en un mismo libro... Aún así es muy interesante y habla de aspectos muy diversos de Irlanda y su historia, sus costumbres y algunos de sus personajes más destacados (Bram Stoker, por ejemplo). Muy recomendado.

gerne wieder

Good info!