Playing the Hero: Reading the Irish Saga Táin Bó Cúailnge by Ann Dooley

Playing the Hero: Reading the Irish Saga Táin Bó Cúailnge

Ann Dooley

298 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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In Playing the Hero, Ann Dooley examines the surviving manuscript versions of the greatest of the early Irish sagas, the Táin Bó Cúailnge (Cattle-Raid of Cooley), and creates a picture of the cultural conditions and literary mind-sets under whi...

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