A review by texreader
The Story We Carry in Our Bones: Irish History for Americans - Hardback by Juilene Osborne-McKnight

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

An Irish teacher wrote this book about Ireland’s history and it’s obvious. It’s well-researched and written, and most importantly it’s very interesting. I learned so much from the basic—who were the Celts? to the more recent—Ireland was neutral in WWII. I knew the English hadn’t treated Ireland well but I didn’t know the extent, and that the infamous potato famine was the result of onerous laws passed by the British government, which refused to undo the harm and instead the English people stepped up to volunteer and donate food and money during the crisis and tried to mitigate all the harm. I was dumbfounded at the centuries of abuse heaped on Ireland. I struggled with the narration by the author. The words were enunciated so much I struggled to listen to it. So I just kept speeding it up. But very glad I finished it; it’s an excellent book.