The Exile and Death of the Sons of Usnech (1954)

Author: Thomas Kinsella

Book ID: 68702

Price: 1,750.00

Longes Mac n-Usnig. Being the Exile and Death of the Sons of Usnech. Illustrated by Mia Cranwill. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1954.  Quarter green leather over decorated paper boards, title in gilt to spine. Housed in matching slipcase. Spine a trifle scuffed, otherwise a fine bright copy.

Limited Edition 25 Large Paper Copies, Signed by both the Author and Illustrator. 

Translated by Kinsella from the Irish text in the Book of Leinster. This, the most stunning tale ever written in Irish, is better known as the story of Deirdre, yet originally it was as much a story of treachery and honour as of romance.

‘The Exile of the Sons of Uisliu’ answers the question ‘Why were Fergus and so many other Ulster chieftains in Exile at the time of the cattle raid of Cuailnge?

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