Kilkenny writer Karina Tynan has rewritten the Irish epic "Táin", a heroic tale focused on the legendary figure Cúchulainn, from the women’s perspective. "TÁIN: The Women's Stories" is the first ...
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 ...
Epic:Frank O'Connor called it "a simply appalling text". It compares unfavourably with more elegant "national" epics, such as Beowulf, or Njal's Saga. Part of the problem is the complicated history of ...
One of the odder effects of the explosion of youth culture in the 1960s and early 1970s was what might be called a second Celtic Revival in Ireland. In the search for an alternative, ...