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Deidre of the Sorrows, by John Duncan
Deidre of the Sorrows, by John Duncan

Gods and Fighting Men

The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland,

by Lady Augusta Gregory

[1904]


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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."--J.B. Hare


Title Page
Dedication
Preface by W B Yeats

Part I

Part I Book I: Fight with the Firbolgs
Part 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 Finn
Part 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
Pronunciation and Place Names