The Tain
Description
When Queen Maeve's army marches north to steal the Brown Bull of Cooley, the leaders of Ulster are cast under a sleeping spell.
Just one boy comes out to face the warrior queen and her invading Connacht horde. A lad who has sworn to protect his homeland like a guard dog: the hero Cúchulainn. He's only a beardless youth against an army of men, but when he twists into his war-form, Cúchulainn is the fiercest fighter in Ireland.
A new translation of a 2000 year-old Irish legend, by award-winning author and Irish language expert Alan Titley.
This is Irish legend as you haven't read it before.
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Alan Titley is one of Ireland's most respected writers in both Irish and English. He has won prizes including the Children's Books Ireland Éilís Dillon Award. The Dirty Dust, his translation of Cré na Cille by Máirtín Ó Cadhain, was published by Yale University Press to international acclaim in 2015. He is the Emeritus Professor of Modern Irish, University College Cork and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Row
- 2. The Muster
- 3. The Learning
- 4. The Youngfella
- 5. The Skirmishing
- 6. One at a Time
- 7. The Morrigan
- 8. The Great Slaughter
- 9. Fighting Ferdia
- 10. Waking Up
- 11. The Reckoning
- Glossary
