Ireland from the coming of the Gael to the Norman invasion, told for children by the man who wrote the standard social history of ancient Ireland. P. W. Joyce was a schools inspector and a scholar of Irish place-names, and he keeps legend and record clearly apart. The chapters on the monastic schools and on Brian Boru are the fullest. Thirty-five plates by painters including James Arthur O'Connor and Nathaniel Hone the Younger carry the Irish landscape, coast and legend that fill these chapters, from moonlight to Saint Bride.