Thomas Kinsella’s version first appeared in 1969 by the Dolmen Press. Táin Bó Cúailnge A great army was mustered by the Connachtmen, that is, by Ailill and Medb, and word went from them to the three other provinces.


There’s lots of stories with Táin in the title, but this article relates specifically to the best known of them – the Táin Bó Cuailnge, or ‘Cattle Raid of Cooley’. Sources of the Táin. And yet, we will be forever indebted to Thomas Kinsella for making The Táin Bó Cuailnge accessible to all. Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition Táin Bó Cúalnge Recension 1 Author: [unknown] The version here given is an old one, though with some late additions, in later language. Táin Bó Cuailnge Page by Hantine Hsu This is the most famous and extensive of the legends of Cúchulainn and is the story of the war fought over the Brown Bull of Cooley ( Cualgne ).
The Táin Bó Cúailnge, a.k.a.The Cattle Raid of Cooley, is an ancient Irish story from the Ulster Cycle of Celtic Mythology.The oldest surviving manuscripts are in Middle Irish and date to the 12th century, but there are allusions to it in Old Irish poems of the 7th century, and elements of it are strikingly similar to things the Greeks and Romans used to say of the Celts. This edition first issued in 1970 by the Oxford University Press. Táin Bó Cuailnge The Cattle Raid of Cooley ... Táin Bó Ros, Táin Bó Ruanadh, Táin Bó Sailin, and Táin Bó Erc -- but the Táin Bó Cuailnge is the only one called The Táin. This banner text can have markup.. web; books; video; audio; software; images; Toggle navigation The Tain Bo Cuailnge survives, in whole or in part, in a considerable number of MSS., most of which are, however, late. The most important are three in number:— (1) Leabhar na h-Uidhri (LU), ‘The Book of the Dun Cow,’ a MS. dating from about 1100. It is the oldest vernacular epic in European literature; i.e., written in the language of the …