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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...