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Author Cahill, Thomas.

Title How the Irish saved civilization : the untold story of Ireland's heroic role from the fall of Rome to the rise of medieval Europe / Thomas Cahill.

Publication Info. New York : Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, [1995]
©1995

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  941.5 CAH    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  941.501 CAH    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  941.501 C119    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  941.501 CAHILL    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  941.501 CAH    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  941.501 CAH    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  941.501 CAH    DUE 11-17-10 Assumed Lost
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  941.501 CAHILL    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  941.5 C11 c.2  Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  941.501 CAHILL c.2  Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description x, 246 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Contents Introduction: How Real Is History? -- I. The End of the World: How Rome Fell--And Why -- II. What Was Lost: The Complexities of the Classical Tradition -- III. A Shifting World of Darkness: Unholy Ireland -- IV. Good News from Far Off: The First Missionary -- V. A Solid World of Light: Holy Ireland -- VI. What Was Found: How the Irish Saved Civilization -- VII. The End of the World: Is There Any Hope?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Learning and scholarship -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500.
Civilization, Classical -- Study and teaching -- Ireland.
Books -- Ireland -- History -- 400-1450.
Manuscripts -- Ireland -- History.
Monastic libraries -- Ireland.
Transmission of texts.
Scriptoria -- Ireland.
Ireland -- Civilization -- To 1172.
Europe -- Civilization -- Irish influences.
ISBN 0385418485: $20.00
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