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 Táin Bό Cuailnge Summary
648 words, approx. 2 pages TÁIN BÓ CUAILNGE (The cattle raid of Cuailnge) is the longest and the most famous of the early Irish heroic tales. It exists in three recensions. The first of them is preserved in Lebhor na hUidhre (The book of the dun cow), dated circa... summary from source:
 The Tain (The Cattle Raid of Cooley) as translated Summary
5,398 words, approx. 18 pages The Tain (The Cattle Raid of Cooley) as translated by Thomas Kinsella Drawn from Irish oral tradition, the Tain Bo cuailnge, or “Cattle-Raid of cuailnge” (often anglicized as “Cooley”), invokes stories that may have been... summary from source:
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1,644 words, approx. 6 pages
Táin Bó Cúailnge ("the driving-off of cows of Cooley", more usually rendered The Cattle Raid of Cooley or The Táin) is the central tale in the Ulster Cycle, one of the four great cycles that make up the surviving corpus of Irish mythology. It is...
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Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Cecile Crovatt Gay Gray
26,218 words, approx. 87 pages
In the following excerpt, Gray enumerates the different narrative and structural elements, as well as character types, present in the Táin and compares the poem with other epic poems, including the Iliad, the Odyssey, Beowulf, the Chanson de Roland, and the Mabinogion.
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Critical Essay by Alan Bruford
14,268 words, approx. 48 pages
In the following essay, Bruford argues that the Tain was originally set down in writing by a cleric who intended it for secular aristocrats. According to Bruford, the popular interpretation of Cú Chulainn reveals the tension arising from the poem's exposure to a wider public.
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Critical Essay by Patricia Kelly
13,702 words, approx. 46 pages
In the essay that follows, Kelly analyzes the Táin in the general context of early Irish storytelling in order to discern its intended meaning and audience; in doing so, Kelly provides the background necessary to assess the poem's literary value.
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