DUNN, Joseph. “The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge The Cualnge Cattle-raid.

Now for the first time done entire into English out of the Irish of the Book of Leinster and Allied Manuscripts. With two pages in facsimile of the manuscripts. London: Nutt, 1914. Royal octavo. pp. xxxvi, 382. Original green cloth, title in black on upper cover and in gilt on spine. Light browning to titlepage. Bookplate of E. A. Neary on front pastedown and neat blind ex libris of St. Mary's, Kilsooskey on half-title. A very good copy. The Cúalnge Cattle-raid is the wildest and most fascinating saga tale of the entire Celtic world and also one of the most precious monuments of the world's literature. Its importance lies in its poetic worth and for the light it throws on the life of the people from whom it originated and that of their ancestors centuries earlier. The Cattle Drive of Cooley – is the central story in the great old-Irish saga-cycle featuring the Sons of Usnech, Cuchulain, Ferdia, Maeve and the rival bulls of Connaught and Ulster, culminating in the 'battle of the bulls'.

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