Irish sagas and folk-tales
Twenty-one stories from Ireland, including heroic sagas, ancestral tales of men and gods, stories about the Fianna, a band of warrior-athletes, and tales of fairies and leprechauns.
Main Author: | O'Faoláin, Eileen. |
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Other Authors: | Kiddell-Monroe, Joan, |
Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
Avenel Books : Distributed by Crown Pub.,
1982.
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Physical Description: |
iv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- The Quest of the Children of Turenn
- Midir and Etain
- The Children of Lir
- How Conor Mac Nessa Became King of Ulster
- The Cattle Raid of Cooley
- The Fate of the Sons of Usnach
- The Death of Cuchullin
- King Fergus Mac Leide and the Wee Folk
- The Young Finn
- How Finn Became Head of the Fianna
- Finn and the Fianna
- The Mother of Oisin
- The Pursuit of Dermot and Grania
- Oisin in the Land of the Ever Young
- The Black Thief
- The Palace in the Rath
- The Three Sons of the King of Antua
- The Haughty Princess
- The Bird of the Golden Land
- The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla
- Finn Mac Cool, the Giants and the Small Men.