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THE
Irish epic tale Táin Bó Cúailnge (Cattle Raid of
Cooley) has all the ingredients of a modern bestseller with strands of
boyhood friendships, word given, treachery, adultery, greed, avarice,
war and finally a fight to the death of equals.
This site offers an Irish along with an English version of this story
on the page.
Drawn together by Steve Taylor at Vassar, the English translation is from
the ancient Irish epic tale Táin Bó Cúailnge
(1914) by Joseph Dunn, London: David Nutt. The Irish transcription is
from Die Altirische Heldensage Táin Bó Cúailnge
(1905) by Ernst Windisch, Leipzig: Verlag von S. Hirzel, according to
Taylor.
The cattle raid is the central epic of the Ulster cycle.
Queen Medb of Connaught’s army marches to take the most famous bull
in Ireland which is the property of Ulster chieftain Daire. But, his men
are afflicted by a debilitating curse and Cuchulain (17) defends Ulster
single-handedly. The battle between Cuchulain and his friend Ferdia is
one of the most famous passages in early Irish literature.
A modern statue of the dying warrior Cuchulain is displayed in a prominent
position in the GPO on O’Connell Street, Dublin.
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