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Gods and Fighting Men / The story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland, arranged and put into English by Lady Gregory

Lady Gregory

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  • Book language: English
  • 422 pages

Gods and Fighting Men is Lady Gregory's 1905 retelling of Irish myths about the Tuatha Dé Danann and the Fianna. With a preface by W. B. Yeats, it moves from the coming of the gods to the deeds of Finn and his warriors, offering a rich introduction to Ireland's heroic tradition.

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GODS AND FIGHTING MEN:

THE STORY OF THE TUATHA DE DANAAN AND OF THE

FIANNA OF IRELAND,

ARRANGED AND PUT INTO ENGLISH BY LADY

GREGORY.

WITH A PREFACE BY W.B. YEATS

1905

DEDICATION TO THE MEMBERS OF THE

IRISH LITERARY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK

My Friends, those I know and those I do not know, I am glad in the year of the birth of your Society to have this book to offer you.

It has given great courage to many workers here—working to build up broken walls—to know you have such friendly thoughts of them in your minds. A few of you have already come to see us, and we begin to hope that one day the steamers across the Atlantic will not go out full, but come back full, until some of you find your real home is here, and say as some of us say, like Finn to the woman of enchantments—

Irish Gaelic.

"We would not give up our own country—Ireland—if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it." AUGUSTA GREGORY.

CONTENTS
DEDICATION
CONTENTS
PREFACE
PART ONE: THE GODS.
BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE TUATHA DE DANAAN.
CHAPTER I. THE FIGHT WITH THE FIRBOLGS
CHAPTER II. THE REIGN OF BRES
BOOK TWO: LUGH OF THE LONG HAND.
CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF LUGH
CHAPTER II. THE SONS OF TUIREANN
CHAPTER III. THE GREAT BATTLE OF MAGH
TUIREADH
CHAPTER IV. THE HIDDEN HOUSE OF LUGH
BOOK THREE: THE COMING OF THE GAEL.
CHAPTER I. THE LANDING
CHAPTER II. THE BATTLE OF TAILLTIN
BOOK FOUR: THE EVER-LIVING LIVING ONES.
CHAPTER I. BODB DEARG.
CHAPTER II. THE DAGDA

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  2. 1905

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