Cuchulain of Muirthemne. The Story of the Men of The Red Branch of Ulster. Arranged and put into English by Lady Gregory. With a preface by W.B. Yeats. London: John Murray, 1902. First Edition. Pp xvii, 360, [2]. Publisher’s blue cloth blocked in cream to spine and upper, top edge gilt; in the original dust jacket (repaired on verso) with title to spine. A fine bright copy, seldom found with jacket.

First edition of this notable contribution to the literature of the Celtic Revival by one of its key figures, Lady Augusta Gregory.

“From around 1901 on Lady Gregory began to pursue her own creative opportunities even more energetically. Her redaction of the Táin bó Cúailnge, published in ‘Kiltartan’ as Cuchulain of Muirthemne (1902), was fulsomely praised by Yeats as the best Irish book of his time, and became a vital source of legendary and imaginative material for him” (ODNB).

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