McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 2005, 1^st thus.  ISBNs 0-7735-2890-3 and 0-7735-2891-1.  Both books are near fine, bindings sound with headbands.  Dust jackets have light edge and cover wear with a few impressions, and light rubs on rear panels.  Book interiors are clean and unmarked.  Volume 1 has 828 pages including Index, Volume 2 has 696 pages including Index.  Volumes appear unread.  ‘The world’s foremost scholar of the Irish diaspora fuses history and fiction into an iconoclastic chronicle of civilization through Irish eyes.  From St. Patrick to Woodie Guthrie, Constantine to John F. Kennedy, India to the Australian outback, Don Akenson’s An Irish History of Civilization takes up where Sir Walter Raleigh’s History of the world left off – but with shorter sentences.  It is about the Irish at home and abroad, the great and the small, the noble and the depraved, the wise and the foolish.’ (from rear panel)