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How the Irish Saved Civilization : The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe Demons But when their efforts toFrom the fall of Rome to the rise of Charlemagne the "dark ages" learning, scholarship, and culture disappeared from the European continent. The great heritage of western civilization from the Greek and Roman classics to Jewish and Christian works would have been utterly lost were it not for the holy men and women of unconquered Ireland. In this delightful and illuminating look into a crucial but little known "hinge" of history, Thomas Cahill takes us