Oidhead Chloinne hUisneach (The Violent Death of the Children of Uisneach).(Review)

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Oidhead Chloinne hUisneach (The Violent Death of the Children of Uisneach), ed. and trans. Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, Irish Texts Society 56 (London: Irish Texts Society, 1993). 219 pp. ISBN 1-870-16656-6. 30.00 [pounds sterling].

The story of Deirdre is one of the best known of all Irish tales, in part through its place in the Tain Bo Cuailnge, but chiefly through the perceived literary excellence of the oldest forms of the tale and the amenability of the story to modern adaptation. In contrast, the late medieval version of this story presented in this edition is almost ...

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