A Guide to Irish Mythology

Fülszöveg

A Guide to Irish Mythology
This guide, structured alphabetically with a helpful cross-reference
system, allows the reader to delve into the ornate world of Irish mythology and its four cycles of tales: the Mythological Cycle, the Ulster Cycle, the Fenian or Ossianic Cycle, and the Historical Cycle or Cycle of Kings. The characters associated with each of these cycles are vividly brought to life—heroes such as Cuchulainn, Oisin, Cormac mac Airt, Conchobar mac Nessa, Finn and the Fianna.
Reviews of first edition
"This is the third such book to appear this year. It is far, far away the best of them, with much fuller information on all the major figures in Irish mythology and a wide range of facts on other aspects of it. Each of the longer entries is illustrated by pertinent quotations, both in prose and in poetry, from the Annals and elsewhere it deserves a wide readership" Irish Times.
"Invaluable book for anybody interested in the subject, or indeed for anybody who likes to... Tovább

Fülszöveg

A Guide to Irish Mythology
This guide, structured alphabetically with a helpful cross-reference
system, allows the reader to delve into the ornate world of Irish mythology and its four cycles of tales: the Mythological Cycle, the Ulster Cycle, the Fenian or Ossianic Cycle, and the Historical Cycle or Cycle of Kings. The characters associated with each of these cycles are vividly brought to life—heroes such as Cuchulainn, Oisin, Cormac mac Airt, Conchobar mac Nessa, Finn and the Fianna.
Reviews of first edition
"This is the third such book to appear this year. It is far, far away the best of them, with much fuller information on all the major figures in Irish mythology and a wide range of facts on other aspects of it. Each of the longer entries is illustrated by pertinent quotations, both in prose and in poetry, from the Annals and elsewhere it deserves a wide readership" Irish Times.
"Invaluable book for anybody interested in the subject, or indeed for anybody who likes to travel around Ireland and see a little bit more than some of the awful centres that are springing up and ruining national parks and monuments around the country. This is the real thing, not tourist drivel" Sunday Press.
"Daragh Smyth's Guide is scholarly, exact, carefully structured, really a miniature encyclopaedia" Books Ireland.
Daragh Smyth lectures in sociology and Irish cultural studies at the Dublin Institute of Technology, and is author of Places of Mythology. Vissza