Download or read book Cuchulainn and the Crow Queen written by Bernard Kelly and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories have been told for 2,000 years. At their heart stands the great Ulster hero, Cúchulainn and on his shoulder sits a dark goddess in the form of a crow. She is the mistress of chaos, surveying the slaughter as he whirls in fury through an ancient yet still familiar world. Their dynamic force has helped shape the history of Ireland – its tribes, its warrior queens, its dispossessed kings. Harnessing the imagination of a modern storyteller, using often overlooked material, this work is an exhilarating retelling of an epic journey – following our champion from a disputed birth through to the battle of the bulls and beyond.
Download or read book The Great Queens written by Rosalind Clark and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though men dominated early Irish society, women dominated the supernatural. Goddesses of war, fertility, and sovereignty ordered human destiny. Christian monks, in recording the old stories, turned these pagan deities into saints, like St Brigit, or into mortal queens like Medb of Connacht. The Morrigan, the Great Queen, war goddess, remains a figure of awe, but her pagan functions are glossed over. She perches, crow of battle, on the dying warrior CuChulainn's pillar stone, but her role as his tutelary deity, and as planner and fomentor of the whole tremendous Tain, the war between Ulster and Connacht, is obscured. Unlike the Anglo-Irish authors who in modern times treated the same material in English, the good Irish monks were not shocked by her sexual aggressiveness. They show her coupling with the Dagda, the 'good god' of the Tuatha De Danann before the second battle of Mag Tuired, but they conceal that this act - by a goddess of war, fertility and sovereignty - gives the Dagda's people victory and the possession of Ireland. Or they reduce the sovereignty to allegory - when Niall of the Nine Hostages sleeps with the Hag she is allegorical of the trials of kingship! With the English invasion and colonization, the power of the goddesses diminishes further. The book shows the fall in status of the pagan goddesses, first under medieval Christianity and then under Anglo-Irish culture. That this fall shows a loss in the recognition of the roles of women seems evident from the texts. This human loss only begins to be restored when, presiding over the severed heads in Yeats's The Death of Cuchulain, the Morrigu declares, 'I arranged the Dance.'
Download or read book The Hounds of the Morrigan written by Pat O'Shea and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a ten-year-old boy finds an old book of magic in a bookshop in Ireland, the forces of good and evil gather to do battle over it.
Download or read book Cuchulainn the Irish Achilles written by Alfred Trübner Nutt and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Adventures of C chulainn written by Bairbre McCarthy and published by Mercier Press. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of Cuchulainn, Ireland's legendary hero, are retold here for readers of all ages: his boyhood at the court of King Conor; his travels of the Land of Shadows; how he became leader of the Red Branch warriors, and his ultimate victory over Queen Maeve of Connacht. It is a magical story of courage, loyalty and love, and in the end, good triumphs over evil.
Download or read book The Ancient Irish Epic Tale T in B C alnge written by Joseph Dunn and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1914 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book C Chulainn of Eir Book I written by Richard Roche and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Raven Queen written by Jules Watson and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dazzling retelling of one of Ireland’s most stirring legends, acclaimed author Jules Watson brings to life the story of Maeve, the raven queen, who is as fierce as she is captivating. She was born to be a pawn, used to secure her father’s royal hold on his land. She was forced to advance his will through marriage—her own desires always thwarted. But free-spirited Maeve will no longer endure the schemes of her latest husband, Conor, the cunning ruler of Ulster. And when her father’s death puts her homeland at the mercy of its greedy lords and Conor’s forces, Maeve knows she must at last come into her own power to save it. With secret skill and daring, Maeve proves herself the equal of any warrior on the battlefield. With intelligence and stealth, she learns the strategies—and sacrifices—of ruling a kingdom through treacherous alliances. And to draw on the dangerous magic of her country’s oldest gods, Maeve seeks out the wandering druid Ruan, whose unexpected passion and strange connection to the worlds of spirit imperil everything Maeve thought true about herself—and put her at war with both her duty and her fate.
Download or read book Cuchulain the Hound of Ulster written by Eleanor Hull and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster is a work by Eleanor Hull. It depicts the legends and myths concerning Cuchulain, an Irish mythical demigod who emerges in the stories of the Ulster Cycle, as well as in Scottish and Manx folklore.
Download or read book C Chulainn of Eir Book I written by Richard Roche and published by Longstone Books Ireland. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His name was Setanta. Born into the most brutal era of mythical Eirú, the young warrior will strive to fulfil his destiny as champion of his people, fending off the threat of a foul invading race, and confronting the sinister agents of the dark powers that pit their will against him. The romance, drama and tragedy of his tale would ensure his place as the greatest hero of Celtic folklore, though all would come to know him by another name... Now, his story will be told as never before.
Download or read book Heroes Gods and Monsters of Celtic Mythology written by Fiona Macdonald and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroes, Gods and Monsters of Celtic Mythology' is a collection of classic myths from all over the Celtic world: from Scotland to Ireland to the Isle of Man to Wales and all the way to Brittany. These stories tell of the pride of warriors, the magic of gods and wars between clans. They tell of savage beasts and deadly chariots, of love lost and found, and of friendship and loyalty. An historical introduction explains who the Celts were, describing their beliefs and customs, and a 'Finding out more' section provides you with the tools you need to discover even more about this increidble civilisation and their beliefs.
Download or read book The Cattle raid of Cualnge written by and published by London, D. Nutt. This book was released on 1904 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remscela written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cu Chulainn was only a teenaged boy when he defeated the combined armies of Queen Maeve. Now, with nothing to fight, Ulster's warrior seems cursed--by a child he never knew he had; by the Sidhe sorceress Fand; by the goddess queen of Connacht herself, who has never forgiven him for his triumph; and by the three dark and evil sisters called The Morrigu. Long ago, the Druid Cathbad once gave him the choice of reknown for his great deeds or a long life. Cu Chulainn chose the former, and now it seems that the consequences of that choice have come due.
Download or read book Crimson Spear written by Gregory Frost and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04-15 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I see you all crimson... I see you all red."" So warns the faery seer of Cruachan. It is a warning no one will heed, because only on thing stands between the army of Maeve the Intoxicator and its goal: a small young warrior named Setanta. Maeve, with all her cunning, sees no problem in dispatching him. But Setanta is no normal defender. His father is a god, who has given him a monstrous power and a magical spear. Alone against all odds and all comers, he fights as strange a war as was ever undertaken - in the narrows of every stream the army must cross. But beware, Setanta. The faery's warning is for you, too. Defeating the lustful Maeve may have unexpected, lethal consequences. "Crimson Spear: The Blood of CÚ Chulainn "comprises two previously published novels --" Tain" and "Remscela." The two books derive from the Ulster Cycle of Celtic mythology, known also as the "Tá in Bó Cuailnge "(tahn bo koo al' nyah). It is the story of a cattle raid upon Ulster Provinceperpetrated by the royal couple of Connacht, its neighbor, and defense of the province by its semi-divine hero CÚ Chulainn.
Download or read book C Chulainn of Eir Book II written by Derek Fennell and published by Longstone Books Ireland. This book was released on 2022-10-21 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hound of Uladh returns. As Conchobar Mac Neasa seeks to extend the power of Eamhain Mhacha across Eirú his Red Branch Knights become locked in conflict with the might of Queen Medb and King Ailill of Connacht. The hero, CúChulainn, is called upon to undertake a mission that will take him right to the very heart of the enemy. But not all who once fought under the banner of Uladh are ready to spill more blood for the King’s growing ambitions... Meanwhile, the dark forces that linger amongst the mortals continue to spin their schemes in secret, and an old foe comes to wreak bloody vengeance upon the son of Lugh.
Download or read book The Adventures of Cuchulainn Champion of Ulster written by and published by Irish Books & Media. This book was released on 1989 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book C Chulainn of Eir Book III written by Richard Roche and published by Longstone Books Ireland. This book was released on 2023-10-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It all comes down to this. The Hound of Uladh, CúChulainn, faces his most hopeless hour as all the dark forces of the land close in on Eamhain Mhacha. He must pit himself against a multitude of foes - demonic fighters under the thrall of the ruthless Queen Medb, the dark spirit known as the Morrigan, even former blood-brothers who now side with the enemy. It is he alone who must stand against the tide. For his people, for his kingdom, for those he loves and for the SunGod Lugh, CúChulainn of the Red Branch must not break. And so, all of Eirú comes to him now with weapons drawn and violence in their hearts. Down to the ford, where CúChulainn waits... to deal with death one last time.
