When I was young and foolish, I got lost in a labyrinthine story about the stealing of a cow and all the repercussions and ripples emanating from that. These ripples involve much fighting, poetry, sex ...

Researchers have used mathematics to conclude that ancient Irish epic, Táin Bó Cúailnge, may be more closely based on real-life societies than previously thought. The study takes a numerical look at ...

Violent, sometimes vulgar, confusing as it is tragic, The Táin - or the Táin Bó Cúailnge, the Cattle Raid of Cooley, to give it its full name - stands as one of the great tales of early Irish ...

It's one of the great tales in Irish mythology and now the Táin Bó Cúailnge - or the Cattle Raid of Cooley - has been recreated on a giant tapestry. Over 40 volunteers across counties Roscommon, ...

Central work of the mythological Ulster cycle re-enacted by a dedicated group who trace the route of the magical journey over 150 miles from Roscommon to Louth. Of all the Irish sagas, the “Táin Bó ...

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Within the West’s small but precious hoard of archaic literary epics, “The Tain” is surely the most complex and least known outside its native Ireland. Even in its homeland, it’s a work more often ...

The Táin: Translated from the Old Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge by Ciaran Carson 224pp, Penguin Classics, £15.99 Sometimes "heroic" seems the wrong word for much of the world's ancient heroic literature ...

Within the West’s small but precious hoard of archaic literary epics, “The Tain” is surely the most complex and least known outside its native Ireland. Even there, it’s a work more often respectfully ...