The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 487 pages of information about The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge.

The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 487 pages of information about The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge.
Romance and Folklore, No. 8, London, 1900.  The Celtic Magazine, Vol. xiii, pages 319-326, 351-359, Inverness, 1888, contains an English translation of a degenerated Scottish Gaelic version taken down by A.A.  Carmichael, in Benbecula; the Gaelic text was printed in the Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, Vol. ii.  In the same volume of the Celtic Magazine, pages 514-516, is a translation of a version of the Tain, taken down in the island of Eigg.  Eleanor Hull’s “Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster,” London, 1911, is a retelling of the story for younger readers.  The following, bearing more or less closely upon the Tain, are also to be mentioned:  Harry G. Tempest, “Dun Dealgan, Cuchulain’s Home Fort,” Dundalk, 1910; A.M.  Skelly, “Cuchulain of Muirtheimhne,” Dublin, 1908; Standish O’Grady, “The Coming of Cuculain,” London, 1894, “In the Gates of the North,” Kilkenny, 1901, “Cuculain, A Prose Epic,” London, 1882 and the same author’s “History of Ireland:  the Heroic Period,” London, 1878-80; “The High Deeds of Finn, and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland,” by T.W.  Rolleston, London, 1910; Stephen Gwynn, “Celtic Sagas Re-told,” in his “To-day and To-morrow in Ireland,” pages 38-58, Dublin, 1903; Edward Thomas, “Celtic Stories,” Oxford, 1911; “Children of Kings,” by W. Lorcan O’Byrne, London, 1904, and “The Boy Hero of Erin,” by Charles Squire, London, 1907.

Among the many poems which have taken their theme from the Tain and the deeds of Cuchulain may be mentioned:  “The Foray of Queen Meave,” by Aubrey de Vere, Poetic Works, London, 1882, vol. ii, pages 255-343; “The Old Age of Queen Maeve,” by William Butler Yeats, Collected Works, vol.  I, page 41, London, 1908; “The Defenders of the Ford,” by Alice Milligan, in her “Hero Lays,” page 50, Dublin, 1908; George Sigerson, “Bards of the Gael and the Gall,” London, 1897; “The Tain-Quest,” by Sir Samuel Ferguson, in his “Lays of the Western Gael and other Poems,” Dublin, 1897; “The Red Branch Crests, A Trilogy,” by Charles Leonard Moore, London, 1906; “The Laughter of Scathach,” by Fiona Macleod, in “The Washer of the Ford and Barbaric Tales”; Hector Maclean, “Ultonian Hero-Ballads collected in the Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland,” Glasgow, 1892; ballad versions from Scotland are found in Leabhar na Feinne, pages 1 and fol., in J.G.  Campbell’s “The Fians,” pages 6 and fol., and in the Book of the Dean of Lismore.

Finally, scenes from the Tain have been dramatized by Canon Peter O’Leary, in the Cork “Weekly Examiner,” April 14, 1900 and fol., by Sir Samuel Ferguson, “The Naming of Cuchulain:  A Dramatic Scene,” first played in Belfast, March 9, 1910; in “The Triumph of Maeve,” A Romance in dramatic form, 1906; “Cuchulain,” etc., (A Cycle of Plays, by S. and J. Varian, Dublin), and in “The Boy-Deeds of Cuchulain,” A Pageant in three Acts, performed in Dublin in 1909.

Copyrights
Project Gutenberg
The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge from Project Gutenberg. Public domain.