I looked at this book and wondered who on earth Daniel O’Connell was. A friend of mine picked it up and decided it must have been ‘that singer’. He was, in fact, one of Ireland’s heroes who didn’t get any glory for all his hard work. So I sat down to read this book. The cover didn’t really appeal to me, but I still read it. To be honest, it could be a bit boring. I really liked the bits about Daniel as a child, but after that, it just wasn’t my kind of book. I’m not really a big fan of history books for kids, so that’s only my opinion (I’m not a fan of the mega-popular Horrible Histories by Terry Deary.) This might appeal to some people. For one thing, I liked the storytelling , but felt it might have been better if people had actually talked, instead of a brief description of the scene. I know that we aren’t sure of the exact words that people said, but I wouldn’t have minded as long as it was something similar to what the people actually said. Oisín was going to help with the review of this book, but got to page fifty or something around that and then decided not to. He didn’t like this book. I enjoyed it a bit more. I found it interesting finding out where the weird band name Wolfe Tones came from. I would have liked a book on a different person in Irish history, maybe Arthur Griffith or Eamon de Valera, to name two people. Oisín says it ‘drags on a bit’ and I wouldn’t tell everybody to buy this, but perhaps to get it from a library, so as not to spend your money on it, as I can’t guarantee that most people will like this book. Oisín only gave it 2/10, but I enjoyed it a bit more and would give it something around 4/10. Overall, it’s not the one to go for.
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