literature fiction Lady Augusta Gregory · 1904 · Literature Fiction
GIFT OF
MICHAEL REESE
University of California * Berkeley
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
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3HJ. JO
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
iT'SE
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 —
tli f?A5pAm^oif -dp -Defy j?6in -o
map -ouitce ^sur- UlI\-n^-n-05 teif. '
"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.
PREFACE
I
A FEW months ago I was on the bare Hill of
Allen, "wide Almhuin of Leinster," where Finn and the Fianna lived, according to the stories, although there are no earthen mounds there like those that mark the sites of old buildings on s…