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Gods who came in clouds, a queen who became a crow, swans who sang for nine hundred years, and heroes who held a ford alone: the old stories of Ireland, retold with Philo, Sophia, Marcos and Demetria, with grammar at every level and a gamebook for each tale.
For the folk tales, see W. B. Yeats, Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888).
An introduction to the four great cycles of Irish mythology, and where the stories come from.
The Mythological, Ulster, Fenian and Kings cycles, the monks who wrote them down, and Yeats.
The gods of Ireland, the Tuatha Dé Danann, and the peoples who came before and after them.
The shining people, the silver hand, and Lugh against Balor of the Evil Eye.
The Great Queen of war and prophecy, the crow over the battlefield.
Four children turned into swans for nine hundred years.
The heroic age of Ulster, King Conchobar, Queen Medb, and the greatest warrior of all.
The boy who killed a hound, became the Hound of Culann, and chose glory over a long life.
Queen Medb, the Brown Bull of Cooley, one hero at the ford, and the death of Ferdiad.
Fionn mac Cumhaill, the Fianna, their hunts, their loves and their sorrows.
How the boy Fionn burned his thumb and gained all the wisdom of the world.
A road across the sea, a Scottish giant, a very large baby, and the real geology.
A king’s daughter, a sacred oath, sixteen years on the run, and the water that slipped through Fionn’s fingers.
Oisín rides west to the Land of the Young, and comes home three hundred years too late.
Kings half real and half legend, from Niall of the Nine Hostages to mad Suibhne among the birds.
Niall and the old woman at the well, Cormac the wise, and mad King Suibhne among the birds.
The fairy people under the hills, from the stories collected by Yeats and others.
The woman of the fairy mound whose cry is heard before a death, and the real tradition of keening.
The shape-shifter of the November nights, and why you mustn’t eat blackberries after Samhain.
The dark chieftain who would not stay in his grave, and the Dracula question.
The night when the doors to the Otherworld stood open: Fionn and Aillén the burner, Nera in the fairy mound.
The May fires, Saint Patrick on the Hill of Slane, and the superstitions of May Eve.
The little shoemaker, his crock of gold, and the Field of Boliauns.