How Long to Read The Irish Story : Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland

How Long Does it Take to Read The Irish Story : Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read The Irish Story : Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland by Oxford R. F. Foster Professor of Irish History and a Fellow Hertford College

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Roy Foster is one of the leaders of the iconoclastic generation of Irish historians. In this opinionated, entertaining book he examines how the Irish have written, understood, used, and misused their history over the past century. Foster argues that, over the centuries, Irish experience itself has been turned into story. He examines how and why the key moments of Ireland's past--the 1798 Rising, the Famine, the Celtic Revival, Easter 1916, the Troubles--have been worked into narratives, drawing on Ireland's powerful oral culture, on elements of myth, folklore, ghost stories and romance. The...

How long is The Irish Story : Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland?

The Irish Story : Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland by Oxford R. F. Foster Professor of Irish History and a Fellow Hertford College is 304 pages long, and a total of 77,216 words.

This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Irish Story : Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read The Irish Story : Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland aloud.

What Reading Level is The Irish Story : Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland?

The Irish Story : Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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