Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Unremarkable

If you already know that the Irish "saved civilization" through its monastic tradition, you are probably not going to learn much more through this book. Instead of telling us what is actually going on during the period, the author spends WAY too much time quoting select passages of from ancient Irish literature and then making generalizations about the Irish character from those passages. I could probably read the same books and pull passages that support the oppostite conclusions. The fact that the Irish literature from that period only represents a tiny fraction of the population makes this exercise all the more pointless. I could not find a mention of a single saved work of literature can be directly attributed to the Irish