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                        THE ANCIENT IRISH EPIC TALE

                              TAIN BO CUALNGE

                         "THE CUALNGE CATTLE-RAID"


              Now for the first time done entire into English
                 out of the Irish of the Book of Leinster
                          and Allied Manuscripts

                                    By

                                JOSEPH DUNN
                   Professor at the Catholic University
                                Washington

              WITH TWO PAGES IN FACSIMILE OF THE MANUSCRIPTS

 [Illustration: "Daig concechlabat fin hErend & Alban inn ainm sin, & bat
             lana beoil fer n-hErend & Alban din anmun sin."]
                        Book of Leinster, fo. 64a.

               "For the men of Erin and Alba shall hear that
            name (Cuchulain) and the mouths of the men of Erin
                   and Alba shall be full of that name."


                                  LONDON
                                DAVID NUTT
                  17 GRAPE STREET, NEW OXFORD STREET, W.C
                                   1914


                             To the Memory of

                                 MY MOTHER

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[Illustration: FACSIMILE, PAGE 55--_from the Book of Leinster_.]

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CONTENTS

         Preface, xi.
     I   The Pillow-talk, 1.
    II   The Occasion of the Tain, 5.
   III   The Rising-out of the Men of Connacht at Cruachan Ai, 10.
    IV   The Foretelling, 13.
     V   The Route of the Tain, 19.
    VI   The March of the Host,