How the Irish saved civilization, by Thomas Cahill

I was a little disappointed in this book and feel like the title was misleading. The author spent so much time on the end of the classical period, including the life of Augustine of Hippo, that he doesn't get to his thesis until the last 50 pages, and then it felt entirely too rushed. He claims that Greek literature would have been saved through other means, but that Latin literature would not have survived if not for the Irish monasteries where they copied and presumably distributed those manuscripts. I would have liked to learn much more about the Irish monasteries and scriptoria where they copied manuscripts. What all was saved? How were the manuscripts kept or shared? How many remain? How did historians learn of all of these activities? So many questions, but it was all rushed through with little detail.