by Cahill, Thomas
The Irish get little credit for saving Western Civilization; yet when and how they did so is a captivating tale ? the kind of story that still delights the Irish today. Given their fierce Celtic heritage, it doesn?t seem likely that they would have preserved so much of what seemed irrevocably lost when the fall of Rome plunged Europe into its long night. The gentle (and, and for the time, unusual) form of Christianity brought to Ireland by St. Patrick, along with that love of a good story, humor, wisdom, and the enjoyment of language accounts, according to Cahill, for their culturally heroic feat.
- reviewed by Jim, Main Library, PLCMC

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The Irish get little credit for saving Western Civilization; yet when and how they did so is a captivating tale ? the kind of story that still delights the Irish today. Given their fierce Celtic heritage, it doesn?t seem likely that they would have preserved so much of what seemed irrevocably lost when the fall of Rome plunged Europe into its long night. The gentle (and, and for the time, unusual) form of Christianity brought to Ireland by St. Patrick, along with that love of a good story, humor, wisdom, and the enjoyment of language accounts, according to Cahill, for their culturally heroic feat.
- reviewed by Jim, Main Library, PLCMC

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