Title: Have it; Don't read it
Product review: Many of the Annals books, including this one, of Ireland are essentially unreadable. The prose is so dry so as to dessicate the history it purports to record. They are bogged down (no Irish pun intended) in tribal minutiae so arcane and irrelevant that the books could almost be spoofs. Judging from its prevalence in these books, it must have been the style of that format at that time, but it is still deadly. Most buy these books because of a family affiliation. I am confident that the vast majority of these books end up on shelves unread past the fifth page. If you want to own this book so you can have a complete collection of annals from your part of Ireland do so, but don't even think about reading it.
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