The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Grainne ...
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Page : 502 pages
File Size : 29,69 MB
Release : 1910
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Page : 502 pages
File Size : 29,69 MB
Release : 1910
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Author : Patrick Kennedy
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Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,2 MB
Release : 1866
Category : Folklore
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Author : Standish Hayes O'Grady
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Page : 340 pages
File Size : 12,84 MB
Release : 1857
Category : Early Irish Literature
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Author : Daniel Allison
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 16,47 MB
Release : 2021-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0750995858
The stories of Finn MacCoull and his warriors were once told at every fireside in Scotland and Ireland. After centuries in obscurity, this collection brings the tales soaring to life again. Here you will find Diarmuid, whom no woman can help but fall in love with, and Ossian, a warrior-poet raised in the woods by a wild deer. There is Grainne, ancient ancestor of Iseult and Guinevere, and Finn himself, whose name was once a byword for wisdom, generosity and beauty. Enter a world of feasting and fighting, battles and poetry, riddles and omens; join Finn and the Fianna on their never-ending quest to drink deeper and deeper of the cup of life.
Author : Austin Clarke
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Page : 72 pages
File Size : 46,34 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Epic literature, Irish
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Author : Marie Heaney
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 1995-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 057117518X
"Journalist Marie Heaney skillfully revives the glory of ancient Irish storytelling in this comprehensive volume from the great pre-Christian sequences to the more recent tales of the three patron saints Patrick, Brigid, and Colmcille."--Publisher's description.
Author : Patrick Kennedy
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Page : 388 pages
File Size : 23,17 MB
Release : 1866
Category : Folklore
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Author : James MacKillop
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 1985-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815623533
The Gaelic hero Fionn mac Cumhaill (often known in English as Finn MacCool) has had a long life. First cited in Old Irish chronicles from the early Christian era, he became the central hero of the Fenian Cycle which flourished in the high Middle Ages. Stories about Fionn and his warriors continue to be told by storytellers in Ireland and in Gaelic Scotland to this day. This book traces the development of Fionn's persona in Irish and Scottish texts and constructs a heroic biography of him. As aspects of the hero are borrowed into English and later world literature, his personality undergoes several changes. Seen as less than admirable, he may become either a buffoon or a blackguard. Somehow these contradictions exist side by side. Among the writers in English most interested in Fionn are James Macpherson, the "translator" of The Poems of Ossian ( 17601, William Carleton, the first great fiction writer of nineteenth-century Ireland, and Fiann O'Brien, the multifaceted author of At Swim-Two-Birds. Aspects of Fiann appear as far apart as Mendelssohn's "Hebrides (or Fingal 's Cave) Overture" and a contemporary rock opera. But the most complex use of Fionn's story in modern literature is James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
Author : Patrick Kennedy
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Page : 378 pages
File Size : 16,79 MB
Release : 1866
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Author : James MacKillop
Publisher : Oxford Reference Collection
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,90 MB
Release : 2017-01-14
Category : BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
ISBN : 9780198804840
This Dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format.A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology is a comprehensive and accessible survey of one of the world's richest mythological traditions. It covers the people, themes, concepts, places, and creatures of Celtic mythology, saga, legend, and folklore from both ancient pagan origins, and moderntraditions.