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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a once and future war correspondent and as a female, I have always admired warrior queens. And nearly every year of my life I have gone to Ireland, the country of my ancestors. My most recent ...

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 ...