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Cú Chulainn, Hero of the Irish - Mythillogical Podcast
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4:09:44Now PlayingHeroes arise to battle! Today, Charles the Victorious and Cassie the Nightmare Queen discover the exploits of Cú Chulainn, Ireland’s greatest warrior. Along the way, they tell of the mythical origins of the Irish people, the gods Lugh and The Morrigan, the enmity of the Ulstermen and the Connachta, and Ireland’s most famous epic, the Cattle Raid of Cooley.
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Sources:
Aspects of the Tain and In Search of the Irish Dreamtime by J. P. Mallory’s
The Prehistoric Archaeology of Ireland by John Waddell
Two Death Tales from the Ulster Cycle (Includes both the death of Coo Ree and Cu Chulainn), translated by Maria Tymoczko (pronounced Tymochko)
The Cath Ruis na Ríg fir Bóinn (Cah Rish na Reeg fir Booinn)
Serglige Con Culainn (Sher-glig-yuh Con Culinn) translated by H. A. Leahy
Fled Bricenn (Fled Bricken) translated by George Henderson
The Lebor Gabala Erenn, translation available on ancienttexts.org
The Caith Maige Tuired, or the Last Battle of Mag Tuired, translation available on CELT, the
corpus of electronic texts
The Caith Boinde, or Battle of the Boyne, old Irish poem
The Cuchullin Saga in Irish Literature, by Eleanor Hull
Cu Chulainn, The Hound of Ulster, also by Eleanor Hull
The essay “Upon the Irish vision of the happy otherworld and the celtic doctrine of rebirth”,
by Alfred Nutt, published in the 1895 book “The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the land of
the living, an Old Irish Saga”
The Tain Bo Cuilnge, translated by Ciaran Carson
Conailla Medb Michuru and the origins of the Tain, by Garret Olmsted
The History of Ireland, by Geoffrey Keating
The Irish Mythological Cycle and Celtic Mythology, by Henry d’Arbois de Jubainville,
translated from the original French by Richard Irvine Best
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