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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Cú Chulainn"”.
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The Heroic Biography of Cú Chulainn
Early Irish literature is romantic, idealised, stylised and gruesome. It shows a tension between reality and fantasy ’which seem to me to be usually an irresolvable dichotomy. The stories set themselves in pre-history. It presents these texts as a “window on the iron age”. The writers may have been …
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The role of Cú Chulainn in Old and Middle Irish narrative literature with particular reference to tales belonging to the Ulster Cycle.
… thesis considers the role and presentation of Cú Chulainn in a broad range of texts belonging to the Ulster Cycle. Chapter I offers a general introduction to the thesis. Relevant scholarly theories to date are presented along with an outline of the methodological approaches underpinning this …
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Heroes and heroism in medieval Irish literature
… and beyond the academy. These heroes, of whom Cú Chulainn and Finn mac Cumaill are certainly the best known, are frequently the topics of discussion in many different sub-branches of the field of Celtic Studies, and are included in discussions of related fields, such as in comparative analyses …
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Pivotal moments in the formation of the medieval Irish hero: conception/birth and death, and the case of Conall Cernach
… scholarship when compared (for example) with Cú Chulainn, Finn mac Cumaill, Conchobar mac Nessa and Cormac mac Airt. Moreover, Conall Cernach’s peculiar death tale includes many unheroic elements and seems to break the norms present in other Irish heroic biographies of prominent warrior …