literature fiction Lady Augusta Gregory · 1902 · Literature Fiction
THOMAS P. O'NEILL, JR
LIBRARY
BOSTON COLLEGE
Ex Libris
Heinz Bluhm
CUCHULAIN OF MUIRTHEMNE
First Edition... April 1902
Second Edition... August 1903
CUCHULAIN OF MUIRTHEMNE:
THE STORY OF THE MEN OF
THE RED BRANCH OF ULSTER
ARRANGED AND PUT INTO
ENGLISH BY LADY GREGORY
WITH A PREFACE BY W. B. YEATS
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
153-157 FIFTH AVENUE
"t)eiI\im -An rh6iT) too beip mo rhuitinciIi," a^ COCtJl-Ain, ''50 mbeit) cp^Cc ^suf iomIA^*6 pOf ^fi mo jniomxjkftxMb-fe x^me^fs n^ n-^l^-o-jniorh -oo tiinne n^
5Air5i"6i5 If ct^eine."
*'l SWEAR BY THE OATH OF MY PEOPLE," SAID CUCHULPIN, *' I
WILL MAKE MY DOINGS BE SPOKEN OF AMONG THE GREAT DOINGS
OF HEROES IN THEIR STRENGTH.".r>*
Printed in Great Britain,
DEDICATION OF THE IRISH EDITION
TO THE PEOPLE OF KILTARTAN
My Dear Friends,
When I began to gather these stories together, it is of you I was thinking, that you would like to have them and to be reading them. For although you have not to go far to get stories of
Finn and Goll and Oisin from any old person in the place, there is very little of the history of Cuchulain and his friends left in the memory of the people, but only that they were brave men and good fighters, and that Deirdre was beautiful.
When I went looking for the stories in the old writings, I found that the Irish in them is too hard for any person to read that has not made a long study of it. Some…