I read Irish History for Dummies right after I read The Complete Idiot's Guide to Irish History and Culture and even between those two books for Idiots/Dummies I already found different views on what really happened. Even though the Dummies book was more focussed on Irish History than the Idiot's guide, I still thought the Idiot's guide was more useful to me in understanding books on the subject of Irish history that I read while in Ireland.