I played through this with a couple of other Irish players. It’s hard to describe how authentic and cathartic it felt to us.

BUT this is also THE one-shot I’d recommend to anyone from anywhere else, who wants to play something set in Ireland.

Its sense of place and time is intoxicating.

The pregens are unusually inspiring. I tend to groan a bit at pregens, I like making my own characters and they usually feel a bit like an NPC I'm stuck playing. Here, we had three players each choosing a pregen (one gender flipped and changed a couple of details but otherwise played as written) and we each felt absolutely plugged into the characters immediately.

I find Ireland is usually either not mentioned by roleplaying things, or else it's treated as a sort of side-attraction, and for all Vaesen's strengths, this supplement really addresses a weakness there. Even in the UK & Ireland expansion, Ireland is just sort of "the other place" and the headquarters are in London.

I'd really love to see this supplement turn into a compaign.

Finally: I thought the handouts were fantastic. Really evocative, and with just enough "Clues" to make us players feel awfully clever.