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Book SynopsisBetween 1878 and 1881, Standish O’Grady published a three-volume
History of Ireland. At the heart of this history was the figure of Cuculain, the great mythic hero who would inspire a generation of writers and revolutionaries. This critical edition of the Cuculain legend offers a concise, abridged version of the central story in
History of Ireland.
Trade Review“An immensely useful and long-needed critical resource which combines an edition of Standish O’Grady’s influential writings on the heroic figure of Cuculain with an excellent scholarly apparatus.”—Margaret Kelleher, chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama,University College Dublin.
“This [edition] makes available one of the seminal sources of the Irish Literary Revival. Its value is greatly enhanced by a number of essays which relate O’Grady’s treatment of Cuculain to the scholarly and antiquarian sources on which O’Grady drew.”—Patrick Maume, researcher for the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography.
“O’Grady’s work opens discussion into English literature, historiography, and political writing at large, which makes this volume provocative and useful for multiple audiences.”—Nicholas Allen, professor of English, University of Georgia.
