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Review title: Not My Historical Cup of Tea
Product review: Tripe. The Michener approach to historical fiction worked well enough in the first installment, The Princes of Ireland. The misty past, lacking historic record, is fertile ground for mythic fiction.This weighty tome (862 pages) exposes the flaws in attempting to personalize complex cultural, economic, religious, and political conflicts into a broad, sweeping panorama that lacks depth. The shallow plot attempts to mitigate centuries of sadistic oppression and trivialize pain, suffering, and death. It fails.The Georgian Dublin of the Anglo-Irish is pictured as a magical place with grand buildings and peopled by Ascendancy scholars, artists, and aristocrats. Other than the dangers of being mugged, little mention is made of the sorry lot of the majority of the city's inhabitants. Dublin was a disease infested hell-hole for most of the city dwellers at the dawn of the 20th century.Historical fiction can educate and enlighten. This book does neither.
