Lady Gregory, Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland (1904)

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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

 

Pt I. THE GODS

 

 

 

Book I. The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan

I. The Fight with the Firbolgs
II. The Reign of Bres

     

 

Book II. Lugh of the Long Hand

I. The Coming of Lugh
II. The Sons of Tuireann
III. The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh
IV. The Hidden House of Lugh

     

 

Book III. The Coming of the Gael

I. The Landing 
II. The Battle of Tailltin

     

 

Book IV. The Ever-Living Living Ones

I. Bodb Dearg
II. The Dagda
III. Angus Og
IV. The Morrigu
V. Aine
VI. Aoibhell
VII. Midhir and Etain
VIII. Manannan
IX. Manannan at play
X. His Call to Bran
XI. His Three Calls to Cormac  
XII. Cliodna’s Wave
XIII. His Call to Connla
XIV. Tadg in Manannan’s Islands
XV. Laegaire in the Happy Plain

     

 

Book V. The Fate of The Children of Lir

 

     

Pt. II. THE FIANNA

 

 

 

Book I. Finn, Son of Cumhal

I. The Coming of Finn  
II. Finn’s Household
III. Birth of Bran
IV. Oisin’s Mother
V. The Best Men of the Fianna

     

 

Book II. Finn’s Helpers

I. The Lad of the Skins
II. Black, Brown, and Grey
III. The Hound   IV. Red Ridge

     

 

Book III. The Battle of the White Strand

I. The Enemies of Ireland
II. Cael and Credhe   III. Conn Crither
IV. Glas, Son of Dremen
V. The Help of the Men of Dea
VI. The March of the Fianna   VII. The First Fighters
VIII. The King of Ulster’s Son
IX. The High King’s Son
X. The King of Lochlann and his Sons
XI. Labran’s Journey   XII. The Great Fight
XIII. Credhe’s Lament

     

 

Book IV. Huntings and Enchantments

I. The King of Britain’s Son
II. The Cave of Ceiscoran
III. Donn, Son of Midhir
IV. The Hospitality of Cuanna’s House
V. Cat-Heads and Dog-Heads
VI. Lomna’s Head
VII. Ilbrec of Ess Ruadh  
VIII. The Cave of Cruachan
IX. The Wedding at Ceann Slieve
X. The Shadowy One
 XI. Finn’s Madness
XII. The Red Woman  
XIII. Finn and the Phantoms
XIV. The Pigs of Angus
XV. The Hunt of Slieve Cuilinn

 

Book V. Oisin’s Children

 

 

Book VI. Diarmuid

I. Birth of Diarmuid
II. How Diarmuid got his Love-Spot
III. The Daughter of King Under-Wave
V. The Hard Servant
V. The House of the Quicken Trees

     

 

Book VII. Diarmuid and Grania

I. The Flight from Teamhair
II. The Pursuit
III. The Green Champions
IV. The Wood of Dubhros
V. The Quarrel
VI. The Wanderers
VII. Fighting and Peace  
VIII. The Boar of Beinn Gulbain

 

Book VIII. Cnoc-an-Air

 

 

 

I. Tailc, Son of Treon
II. Meargach’s Wife  
III. Ailne’s Revenge

     

 

Book IX. The Wearing Away of the Fianna

I. The Quarrel with the Sons of Morna
II. Death of Goll  
III. The Battle of Gabhra

     

 

Book X. The End of the Fianna

I. Death of Bran
II. The Call of Oisin  
III. The Last of the Great Men

     

 

Book XI. Oisin and Patrick

I. Oisin’s Story
II. Oisin in Patrick’s House  
III. The Arguments
IV. Oisin’s Laments


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