I appreciate all of your recommendations particularly with the annotations indicating a little about the perspective of the author. I suspect in time I will begin to discern this for myself. I don’t mind alternating between the scholarly and the mainstream. While waiting for some of your recommended books to arrive I am reading “Wars of the Irish Kings” by David Willis McCullough. I am currently on the chapter that presents “The Cattle Raid of Cooley” as translated by byThomas Kinsella.