Wes’s Reviews > How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe  > Status Update

Plays fast and loose with the history, to mostly entertaining results. However, it is replete with outright character assassinations of figures the author doesn’t fully approve of (Augustine and Cicero e.g.), as well as trite and obvious anti-Catholicism.