Gods and Fighting Men Index
Deidre of the Sorrows, by John Duncan |
Gods and Fighting MenThe Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland,by Lady Augusta Gregory[1904] |
This is Lady Augusta Gregory's retelling of the first and third cycles of the mythic history of Ireland: the Mythological and the Fenian. Yeats wrote that "I think this book is the best that has come out of Ireland in my time."--
Title Page
Dedication
Preface by W B Yeats
Part I
Part I Book I: Fight with the FirbolgsPart I Book I: Reign of Bres
Part I Book II: The Coming of Lugh
Part I Book II: The Sons of Tuireann
Part I Book III: The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh
Part I Book II: Hidden House of Lugh
Part I Book III: The Landing
Part I Book III: The Battle of Tailltin
Part I Book IV: Bodb Deag
Part I Book IV: The Dagda
Part I Book IV: Angus Og
Part I Book IV: The Morrigu
Part I Book IV: Aine
Part I Book IV: Aoibhell
Part I Book IV: Midhir and Etain
Part I Book IV: Manannan
Part I Book IV: Manannan at Play
Part I Book IV: His Call to Bran
Part I Book IV: His Three Calls to Cormac
Part I Book IV: Cliodna's Wave
Part I Book IV: Call to Connla
Part I Book IV: Tadg in Manannan's Islands
Part I Book IV: Laegaire in the Happy Plain
Part I Book V: Fate of the Children of Lir
Part II
Part II Book I: The Coming of FinnPart II Book I: Finns Household
Part II Book I: Birth of Bran
Part II Book I: Oisin's Mother
Part II Book I: The Best Men of the Fianna
Part II Book II: The Lad of the Skins
Part II Book II: Black, Brown, and Grey
Part II Book II: The Hound
Part II Book II: Red Ridge
Part II Book III: The Enemies of Ireland
Part II Book III: Cael and Credhe
Part II Book III: Conn Crither
Part II Book III: Glas Son of Dremen
Part II Book III: Help of the Men of Dea
Part II Book III: The March of the Fianna
Part II Book III: The First Fighters
Part II Book III: The King of Ulsters Son
Part II Book III: The High King's Son
Part II Book III: The King of Lochlann and his Sons
Part II Book III: Labran's Journey
Part II Book III: The Great Fight
Part II Book III: Credhe's Lament
Part II Book IV: King of Britains Son
Part II Book IV: Cave of Ceiscoran
Part II Book IV: Donn, Son of Midhir
Part II Book IV: Hospitality of Cuanna's House
Part II Book IV: Cats Heads and Dog Heads
Part II Book IV: Lomna's Head
Part II Book IV: Illbrec of Ess Ruadh
Part II Book IV: The Cave of Cruachan
Part II Book IV: The Wedding at Ceann Slieve
Part II Book IV: The Shadowy One
Part II Book IV: Finn's Madness
Part II Book IV: The Red Woman
Part II Book IV: Finn and the Phantoms
Part II Book IV: The Pigs of Angus
Part II Book IV: The Hunt of Slieve Cuilinn
Part II Book V: Oisin's Children
Part II Book VI: Birth of Diarmuid
Part II Book VI: How Diarmuid Got His Love-Spot
Part II Book VI: The Daughter of King Under-Wave
Part II Book VI: The Hard Servant
Part II Book VI: The House of the Quicken Trees
Part II Book VII: The Flight from Teamhair
Part II Book VII: The Pursuit
Part II Book VII: The Green Champions
Part II Book VII: The Wood of Dubhros
Part II Book VII: The Quarrel
Part II Book VII: The Wanderers
Part II Book VII: Fighting and Peace
Part II Book VII: The Boar of Beinn Gulbain
Part II Book VIII: Tailc, Son of Treon
Part II Book VIII: Meargach's Wife
Part II Book VIII: Ailne's Revenge
Part II Book IX: The Quarrel with the Sons of Morna
Part II Book IX: Death of Goll
Part II Book IX: The Battle of Gabhra
Part II Book X: The Death of Bran
Part II Book X: The Call of Oisin
Part II Book X: The Last of the Great Men
Part II Book XI: Oisin's Story
Part II Book XI: Oisin in Patrick's House
Part II Book XI: The Arguments
Part II Book XI: Oisin's Lament
Notes
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