The size of the Green Island, the personification of the “Celtic spirit,” is small, but the history of this island is extremely rich. The Hills of the Faery Folk, Finn and his squad, the sacred stones of Tara and Emain Macha, the Vikings in Dublin, the English invasion, the “dirty Paddys”, the struggle for Home Rule, the potato famine, emigration to America, IRA fighters and the conflict in Ulster that lasted for many years - all this is Ireland, the poetic Erin, or Eriu, home of the valiant Cuchulainn and the bard Ossian, Jonathan Swift and Thomas Moore, Charles S. Parnell, William Yeats and James Joyce. And centuries-old Irish history comes to life on the pages of this book.