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Title: Might be helpful for grade-schoolers
Review: I received this book as a gift and was put off right away by the garish cover and was even more disappointed by the content. It's a very simplistic outline of Irish history, complete with dumbed-down definitions of "Catholic" and "Presbyterian" for the edification of the reader, who really should be no older than 12 to appreciate the cartoon-like artwork in the book. Coloring-book style drawings of such notables as St. Patrick, Cromwell and a generic leprechaun are included. The text is littered with big letter "E's" (for Eire, get it?) that are supposed to indicate something important. I don't know why they just didn't title it Ireland for Dummies. That was obviously what the authors thought about their subject.
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