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This quotation comes from the “Dedication of the Irish Edition to the People of Kiltartan” as given in the first English edition of Cuchulain of Muirthemne. Lady Gregory makes clear what is meant by “the Irish Edition” later in the dedication, saying, “My friend and your friend the Craoibhin Aoibhin[n] has put Irish of to-day on some of these stories that I have set in order, for I am sure you will like to have the history of the heroes of Ireland told in the language of Ireland.”2
It is what I have tried to do, to take the best of the stories, or whatever parts of each will fit best one another, and in that way to give a fair account of Cuchulain’s life and death. I left out a good deal I thought you would not care about for one reason or another …1
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Lady Gregory, Ouchulain of Muirthenmae: the Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster Arranged and Put into English (London: John Murray, 1902) pp. v-vi. Hereinafter Gregory.
James F. Kenney, The Sources for the Early History of Ireland: An Introduction and Guide (New York: Columbia UP, 1929 ), 1 (all published): 75.
Douglas Hyde, A Literary History of Ireland from the Earliest Times to the Present Day ( London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899 ).
James Joyce, Ulysses ( Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books in association with The Bodley Head, rpt with corrections, 1971 ) 475.
Standish O’Grady, History of Ireland: The Heroic Period 1 (London: Sampson Low; Dublin: E. Ponsonby, 1878) 113–19. Hereinafter O’Grady.
J. M. Synge, Collected Works, vol. 2, Prose, ed. Alan Price ( London: Oxford University Press, 1966 ), p. 370.
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Mercier, V. (1987). The Morals of Deirdre. In: Gould, W. (eds) Yeats Annual No. 5. Yeats Annual. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06841-8_18
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