Irish Mythology
Internet Sources for the Readings


[Note that these sources usually omit the notes--often extensive--that accompanied the printed editions. The versions provided by the Celt Project at University College Cork are accompanied by comprehensive lists of published versions and associated literature. Those online sources listed below are not comprehensive; in several cases there are numerous others, but I have tried to provide a selection of translations.]

The tales have been listed here by the modern "cycle" assignments, but you should bear in mind that they were originally classified by tale type and some could be assigned to more than one of the cycles (the mythological cycle and Ulster cycle having considerable overlap). The translator, if known, is listed after each link.

Mythological Cycle

Lebor na Gabála Érenn (‘The Book of the Takings’) -
www.ancienttexts.org/library/celtic/irish/lebor.html (Macalister, Redaction 1)
www.ancienttexts.org/library/celtic/ctexts/leborgabala.html (Macalister, except the Milesian section is by Cross & Slover)
www.maryjones.us/jce/LGEoverview.pdf (Not a translation but an overview and outline, with a genealogical chart, by Lloyd D. Graham.)  

Cath Maige Tuired ('The Battle of Moytirra') -
www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T300011/index.html (Stokes)
www.ancienttexts.org/library/celtic/irish/2nd_moytura.html (Stokes )
www.ncf.carleton.ca/~dc920/tured.html (Stokes)
www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T300010/index.html (Gray )
www.sacred-texts.com/neu/cmt/cmteng.htm (Gray)
www.mythicalireland.com/mythology/secondbattleofmagtuired.htm (Gray)
www.ancienttexts.org/library/celtic/ctexts/2maghtured.html (Cross & Slover )

Tochmarc Étaíne ('The Wooing of Etaín') -
www.celtic-twilight.com/ireland/wooing_of_etain/index.htm (Bergin & Best)
www.sacred-texts.com/neu/hroi/index.htm (Leahy; two versions)
www.ancienttexts.org/library/celtic/ctexts/etain.html (Leahy [YBL])
www.maryjones.us/ctexts/etain.html (Leahy [YBL])
[See De Gabáil in t-Sída ('The Taking of the Síd') for an alternative version of the beginning of this tale; that found in Tochmarc Étaíne is almost certainly the original. - Unfortunately the only on-line translation is no longer available.]

Togail Bruidne Da Derga ('The Destruction of Da Derga’s Hostel') -
www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1100derga.html (Stokes)
www.bartleby.com/49/3/ (Stokes)
www.sacred-texts.com/neu/dddh/dddh.htm (Stokes)
www.mythicalireland.com/mythology/dederga.html (Stokes)
www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G301017/index.html (Irish only)

Oidhe Chloinne Tuireann ('Fate of the Children of Turenn') -
www.maryjones.us/ctexts/turenn.html (Cross & Slover)

Oidhe Chloinne Lir ('Fate of the Children of Lir') -
www.maryjones.us/ctexts/lir.html (Jacobs/Joyce)
mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/micsun/IrishResources/childlir.htm (Lady Gregory)
www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/cwt/cwt12.htm (retelling)

Aislinge Oenguso ('Dream of Oengus') -
www.maryjones.us/ctexts/oengus.html (Gantz)

Imram Bran ("The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living") -
www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/vob/vob02.htm (Meyer)

Ulster Cycle (tales of Cú Cuchulainn)

Entire cycle
homepage.ntlworld.com/patrick.brown/ulstercycle/index.html (Brown et al.)

Scéla Muicce Meic Da Thó ('The Story of Mac Dathó’s Pig') -
adminstaff.vassar.edu/sttaylor/MacDatho/ (Chadwick)

Fled Bricrenn ('Bricriu’s Feast') -
www.ncf.ca/~dc920/bricriu.html (Cross & Slover?)

Mesca Ulad ('The Intoxication of the Ulaid') -
No online translation is currently available. The most readily accessible translation is that by Jeffrey Gantz-- 1981 Early Irish Myths and Sagas, pp. 188-218. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin.

Togail Bruidnae Dá Choca ('The Destruction of Dá Choca's Hostel')
No online translation is available. The only available translation appears to be that by Whitley
Stokes--1900 Da Choca's Hostel. Revue Celtique 21:150-165, 312-327, 388-402.

Aided Con Roi ('The Death of Cú Roi')
www.maryjones.us/ctexts/curoi.html

Aided Celtchar mac Uthechair ('The Death of Celtchair mac Uthechair')
www.maryjones.us/ctexts/celtchar.html

Compert Conchobuir ('The Conception of Conchobor')
www.maryjones.us/ctexts/conchobar1.html
homepage.ntlworld.com/patrick.brown/ulstercycle/con-con.html (Brown; versions 1 & 2)
www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G301013/index.html (Irish only)

Scéla Conchobair maic Nessa ('The Tale of Conchobor mac Nessa')
www.maryjones.us/ctexts/conchobar2.html

Compert Con Culainn 'Conception of Cú Chulainn'
www.maryjones.us/ctexts/cuchulain1.html (?; version 2)
www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G301013/index.html (Irish only)

'Boyhood Deeds of Cú Chulainn' -
www.ncf.carleton.ca/~dc920/boyd.html (Hull & O'Grady)
www.maryjones.us/ctexts/cuchulain2.html (Cross & Slover)

Tochmarc Emire ('Wooing of Emer') -
www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T301021/index.html (Meyer)
www.maryjones.us/ctexts/emer.html (Meyer)
homepage.ntlworld.com/patrick.brown/ulstercycle/emer.html (Brown?)

'The Training of Cú Chulainn'
homepage.ntlworld.com/patrick.brown/ulstercycle/train.html (Brown?)

Aided Connla ('Tragic Death of Connla'/Death of Aife's Only Son) -
www.maryjones.us/ctexts/aoife.html (?)
www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G301015/ (Irish only)

Táin Bó Fraich ('The Driving of Fraech's Cattle')
www.sacred-texts.com/neu/hroi/hroiv2.htm (Leahy)
www.maryjones.us/ctexts/leinster.html (Leahy)
www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G301006/G301006.html (Irish only)

Táin Bó Dartada ( 'The Driving of Dartaid's Cattle')
www.sacred-texts.com/neu/hroi/hroiv2.htm (Leahy)

Táin Bó Flidais ( 'The Driving of Flidais's Cattle')
www.sacred-texts.com/neu/hroi/hroiv2.htm (Leahy)
www.maryjones.us/ctexts/flidais.html (Leahy)

Táin Bó Regamon ('The Driving of Regamon's Cattle')
www.sacred-texts.com/neu/hroi/hroiv2.htm (Leahy)

Táin Bó Regamna ('The Driving of Regamna's Cattle')
www.sacred-texts.com/neu/hroi/hroiv2.htm (Leahy)

Echtrae Nerai ('The Adventure of Nera' - includes Táin Bó Aingen)
www.univie.ac.at/indogermanistik/download/texte/Echtrae_Nerai.htm (Gabay et al.)

'Tale of the Two Pig-keepers' -
www.ncf.carleton.ca/~dc920/tain.html (Kinsella?)

Táin Bó Cúalnge (‘The Cooley Cattle Raid’) -
www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T301012/index.html (Recension I, O'Rahilly )
www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T301035/index.html (Book of Leinster, O'Rahilly )
vassun.vassar.edu/~sttaylor/Cooley/ (Dunn)
www.mythicalireland.com/mythology/tain/index.html (Dunn)
adminstaff.vassar.edu/sttaylor/Cooley/Faraday/Contents.html (Faraday)

Loinges Mac n-Uislenn ('The Exile of the Sons of Uisliu'/Sorrows of Deirdre) -
www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T301020/index.html (Hyde )

Fenian Cycle (tales of Finn MacCumhall)

Macgnímartha Find ('Boyhood Deeds of Fionn mac Cumhaill') -
www.maryjones.us/ctexts/f02.html

Tóraigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne ('Pursuit of Diarmuit and Gráinne') -
www.ncf.ca/~dc920/darmuid.html [first of eight linked sections] (O'Grady?)
www.sacredfire.net/feniancycle.html (?)

Aided Finn ('Death of Finn MacCumaill') -
www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T303003/index.html (Meyer)

Oisin in Tír na nOg ('Oisin in the Land of the Young') -
www.shee-eire.com/Magic&Mythology/Myths/FinnMacCool/Oisin-TirnaNog/Page1.htm

Agallamh na Seanórach ('The Colloquy of the Old Men')

Historical Cycle/Cycles of the Kings

Orgain Dind Rig ('Destruction of Dind Rig') -
www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T302012A/index.html (Stokes )
www.maryjones.us/ctexts/dindrig.html

Other Documents

Imcallam in Da Thurad ('Colloquy of the Two Sages) -
www.maryjones.us/ctexts/colloquy.html (Stokes)

 Interesting versions of some of the tales as told and illustrated by Irish schoolchildren can be found at ireland.iol.ie/~scmhuire/myths/

('Ailill Aulom, Mac Con, and Find ua Báiscne') -
www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T302010/index.html

Revised Nov 07