Cuchulainn And The Crow Queen

Author : Bernard Kelly
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750958219
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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.

Author : Bernard Kelly
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750958219
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a time in Ireland's history when chivalry and chieftainry ruled the land. When the country was occupied by bands of warriors who spoke only their native tongue and who cherished their heritage and civilisation. This was the time of Cuchulainn. All of the warrior bands had their own Seanachie, a person responsible for recounting the deeds of times past, a chronicler of the ages. Cuchulainn was their most famous subject and hundreds of tales of his heroic and terrifying deeds, such as single-handedly defending Ulster at the age of seventeen, and his battle frenzy in which he knows neither ally nor enemy, have survived to this day. This is an exhilarating new telling of Cuchulainn for our time, full of valour, passion and bloodshed.

Author : Rosalind Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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.'

Author : Alfred Trübner Nutt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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:

Author : Eleanor Hull
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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.

Author : Whitley Stokes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Training of Cuchulainn written by Whitley Stokes and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bairbre McCarthy
Publisher : Mercier Press
ISBN 13 : 9781856353120
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Adventures of Cúchulainn 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.

Author : Eleanor Means Hull
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781436610636
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Boys' Cuchulain: Heroic Legends of Ireland (1910) written by Eleanor Means Hull and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Cuchulain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster written by Cuchulain and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gregory Frost
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0759523266
Total Pages : 1168 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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.