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Books by Thomas Cahill

Thomas Cahill is an American scholar and writer of Irish descent. He is best known for “The Hinges of History” book series in which he recounts formative moments in Western civilization, in a witty, Gibbonesque fashion. As of 2021, the series includes six books, among them “How the Irish Saved Civilization,” “The Gifts of the Jews,” “Desire of the Everlasting Hills,” and “Heretics and Heroes.”

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How the Irish Saved Civilization

Thomas Cahill

When Alaric sacked Rome in 410, Ireland was “a rough, strange world” populated by “illiterate barbarians.” Just a few decades later, one of their former slaves would teach them to read and write and turn them into the saints and scholars who would preserve the West’s written treasury during the Dark Ages. “How the Irish Saved Civilization” by Thomas Cahill tells this remarkable story.

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