CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

ELIN GOW, THE SWORDSMITH FROM ERIN, AND THE COW GLAS GAINACH.

MOR'S SONS AND THE HERDER FROM UNDER THE SEA.

SAUDAN OG AND THE DAUGHTER OF THE KING OF SPAIN; YOUNG CONAL AND THE YELLOW KING'S DAUGHTER.

THE BLACK THIEF AND KING CONAL'S THREE HORSES.

THE KING'S SON FROM ERIN, THE SPRISAWN, AND THE DARK KING.

THE AMADAN MOR AND THE GRUAGACH OF THE CASTLE OF GOLD.

THE KING'S SON AND THE WHITE-BEARDED SCOLOG.

DYEERMUD ULTA AND THE KING IN SOUTH ERIN.

CUD, CAD, AND MICAD, THREE SONS OF THE KING OF URHU.

CAHAL, SON OF KING CONOR, IN ERIN, AND BLOOM OF YOUTH, DAUGHTER OF THE KING OF HATHONY.

COLDFEET AND THE QUEEN OF LONESOME ISLAND.

LAWN DYARRIG, SON OF THE KING OF ERIN, AND THE KNIGHT OF TERRIBLE VALLEY.

BALOR ON TORY ISLAND.

BALOR OF THE EVIL EYE AND LUI LAVADA HIS GRANDSON.

ART, THE KING'S SON, AND BALOR BEIMENACH, TWO SONS-IN-LAW OF KING UNDER THE WAVE.

SHAWN MACBREOGAN AND THE KING OF THE WHITE NATION.

THE COTTER'S SON AND THE HALF SLIM CHAMPION.

BLAIMAN, SON OF APPLE, IN THE KINGDOM OF THE WHITE STRAND.

FIN MACCOOL AND THE DAUGHTER OF THE KING OF THE WHITE NATION.

FIN MACCOOL, THE THREE GIANTS, AND THE SMALL MEN.

FIN MACCOOL, CEADACH OG, AND THE FISH-HAG.

FIN MACCOOL, FAOLAN, AND THE MOUNTAIN OF HAPPINESS.

FIN MACCOOL, THE HARD GILLA, AND THE HIGH KING.

THE BATTLE OF VENTRY.

FOOTNOTES

NOTES.

Hero-Tales
of
Ireland

COLLECTED BY
JEREMIAH CURTIN

LONDON
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1894

University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.

TO
THE RIGHT HON. JOHN MORLEY,
Secretary of State for Ireland.

Sir,—

To you, a thinker who values every age of human history, and a statesman who takes deep interest in the nation which produced and kept these tales, I beg to dedicate this volume.

JEREMIAH CURTIN.