Celtic Wonder Tales

ELLA YOUNG was an Irish poet, writer for children and mythologist who was educated at Trinity College Dublin. She later emigrated to the USA and held an academic post at the University of California. She was a friend of Patrick Pearse and supported the Republican movement.MAUD GONNE was an artist, actress, suffragette and activist in the Republican movement. She was a muse and inspiration for many works by W.B. Yeats, who proposed to her several times.MARK WILLIAMS is Fellow and Tutor in English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He is a specialist in medieval Irish and Welsh language and literature, and is the author of Ireland’s Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth (Princeton University Press, 2016), and The Celtic Myths That Shape the Way We Think (Thames & Hudson, 2021).

• INTRODUCTION 9FURTHER READING 17THE EARTH-SHAPERS 19THE SPEAR OF VICTORY 29A GOOD ACTION 35HOW THE SON OF THE GOBHAUN SAORSOLD THE SHEEPSKIN 47HOW THE SON OF THE GOBHAUN SAORSHORTENED THE ROAD 55THE COW OF PLENTY 67THE COMING OF LUGH 79THE ERIC-FINE OF LUGH 91THE GREAT BATTLE 115INISFAIL 127THE GOLDEN FLY 139THE CHILDREN OF LIR 155THE LUCK-CHILD 173CONARY MOR 183