The Cattle-Raid of Cooley

Description

The Cattle Raid of Cooley is a legendary epic tale from early Irish literature. It tells of a war against Ulster by the Connacht queen Medb and her husband Ailill, who intend to steal the stud bull Donn Cuailnge, opposed only by the teenage Ulster hero Cú Chulainn. Traditionally set in the 1st century AD in the pre-Christian heroic age, the Táin is the central text of a group of tales known as the Ulster Cycle. Another translation of this story is The Cattle Raid of Cualnge by L. Winifred Faraday.

This book has 236 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1914.

Production notes: This ebook of The Cattle-Raid of Cooley was published by Global Grey in 2018.