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It consists of tales and poems about the god-like <a href="/wiki/Tuatha_D%C3%A9_Danann" title="Tuatha Dé Danann">Tuatha Dé Danann</a>, who are based on Ireland's pagan deities,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and other mythical races such as the <a href="/wiki/Fomorians" title="Fomorians">Fomorians</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Fir_Bolg" title="Fir Bolg">Fir Bolg</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Koch_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Koch-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is one of the four main story 'cycles' of <a href="/wiki/Early_Irish_literature" title="Early Irish literature">early Irish myth and legend</a>, along with the <a href="/wiki/Ulster_Cycle" title="Ulster Cycle">Ulster Cycle</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Fianna_Cycle" class="mw-redirect" title="Fianna Cycle">Fianna Cycle</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Cycles_of_the_Kings" title="Cycles of the Kings">Cycles of the Kings</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name "Mythological Cycle" seems to have gained currency with <a href="/wiki/Marie_Henri_d%27Arbois_de_Jubainville" title="Marie Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville">Arbois de Jubainville</a> <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1881–1883</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/James_MacKillop_(author)" title="James MacKillop (author)">James MacKillop</a> says the term is now "somewhat awkward",<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/John_T._Koch" title="John T. Koch">John T. Koch</a> notes it is "potentially misleading, in that the narratives in question represent only a small part of extant Irish mythology". He prefers T Ó Cathasaigh's name, <b>Cycle of the Gods</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-Koch_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Koch-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Important works in the cycle are the <i><a href="/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn" title="Lebor Gabála Érenn">Lebor Gabála Érenn</a></i> ("Book of Invasions"), the <i><a href="/wiki/Cath_Maige_Tuired" title="Cath Maige Tuired">Cath Maige Tuired</a></i> ("Battle of Moytura"), the <i>Aided Chlainne Lir</i> ("<a href="/wiki/Children_of_Lir" title="Children of Lir">Children of Lir</a>") and <i><a href="/wiki/Tochmarc_%C3%89ta%C3%ADne" title="Tochmarc Étaíne">Tochmarc Étaíne</a></i> ("The Wooing of Étaín"). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mythological_Cycle&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Overview"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The characters appearing in the cycle are essentially gods from the pre-Christian <a href="/wiki/Paganism" title="Paganism">pagan</a> past in Ireland. Commentators exercising caution, however, qualify them as representing only "godlike" beings, and not gods. This is because the Christian scribes who composed the writings were generally (though not always) careful not to refer to the Tuatha Dé Danann and other beings explicitly as <a href="/wiki/Deity" title="Deity">deities</a>. The disguises are thinly veiled nonetheless, and these writings contain discernible vestiges of early Irish <a href="/wiki/Polytheistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Polytheistic">polytheistic</a> <a href="/wiki/Cosmology" title="Cosmology">cosmology</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Examples of works from the cycle include numerous <a href="#prose_tales">prose tales</a>, <a href="#verse_texts">verse texts</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Pseudohistory" title="Pseudohistory">pseudo-historical</a> <a href="/wiki/Chronicle" title="Chronicle">chronicles</a> (primarily the <i><a href="/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn" title="Lebor Gabála Érenn">Lebor Gabála Érenn</a></i> (LGE), commonly called <i>The Book of Invasions</i>) found in <a href="/wiki/Medieval" class="mw-redirect" title="Medieval">medieval</a> <a href="/wiki/Vellum" title="Vellum">vellum</a> <a href="/wiki/Manuscripts" class="mw-redirect" title="Manuscripts">manuscripts</a> or later copies. Some of the romances are of later composition and found only in paper manuscripts dating to near-modern times (<i><a href="/wiki/Cath_Maige_Tuired" title="Cath Maige Tuired">Cath Maige Tuired</a></i> and <i>The Fate of the Children of <a href="/wiki/Tuireann" title="Tuireann">Tuireann</a></i>). </p><p>Near-modern histories such as the <a href="/wiki/Annals_of_the_Four_Masters" title="Annals of the Four Masters">Annals of the Four Masters</a> and <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Keating" title="Geoffrey Keating">Geoffrey Keating</a>'s <i>History of Ireland</i> (=<a href="/wiki/Seathr%C3%BAn_C%C3%A9itinn" class="mw-redirect" title="Seathrún Céitinn">Seathrún Céitinn</a>, <i>Foras Feasa ar Éirinn</i>) are also sometimes considered viable sources, since they may offer additional insights with their annotated and interpolated reworkings of <i><a href="/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn" title="Lebor Gabála Érenn">Lebor Gabála Érenn</a></i> accounts. </p><p>Orally transmitted folk-tales may also be, in a broad sense, considered mythological cycle material, notably, the folk-tales that describe <a href="/wiki/Cian" title="Cian">Cian</a>'s tryst with <a href="/wiki/Balor" title="Balor">Balor</a>'s daughter while attempting to recover the bountiful cow <a href="/wiki/Glas_Gaibhnenn" title="Glas Gaibhnenn">Glas Gaibhnenn</a>. </p><p>The god-folk of the successive invasions are "<a href="/wiki/Euhemerism" title="Euhemerism">euhemerised</a>", i.e., described as having dwelt terrestrially and ruling over Ireland in kingship before the age of mortal men (the <a href="/wiki/Milesians_(Irish)" title="Milesians (Irish)">Milesians</a>, or their descendants).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Afterwards, the Tuatha Dé Danann are said to have retreated into the <a href="/wiki/Sidhe" class="mw-redirect" title="Sidhe">sídhe</a> (fairy mounds), cloaking their presence by raising the <i>féth fiada</i> (fairy mist).<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Having disappeared but not died, the deities oftentimes make "guest appearances" in narratives categorised under other cycles. (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Lugh" title="Lugh">Lugh</a>'s appearance as the divine father and <a href="/wiki/Morr%C3%ADgan" class="mw-redirect" title="Morrígan">Morrígan</a> as nemesis to the Ulster hero <a href="/wiki/Cuchulainn" class="mw-redirect" title="Cuchulainn">Cuchulainn</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> encounters of Finnian characters with dwellers of the sidhe; <a href="/wiki/Cormac_mac_Airt" title="Cormac mac Airt">Cormac mac Airt</a>'s, or his grandfather's visits to the otherworldly realms.) </p><p>Collected <a href="#Lore">literature</a>, while they do not belong to the cycle in entirety, nevertheless capture tidbits of lore about the deities. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Lists_of_literature">Lists of literature</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mythological_Cycle&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Lists of literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following table is a summary of titles of all of the mythological texts that survive and are in print.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <table style="text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" class="wikitable"> <caption><b><span style="font-size:120%">Mythological texts</span></b> </caption> <tbody><tr style="vertical-align:bottom;"> <th>Irish title</th> <th>English title</th> <th>Remarks & Notes</th> <th>Sources </th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td><i>Lebor Gabala Erenn</i> </td> <td><i>The Book of the Taking of Ireland</i> </td> <td> <dl><dd><i>Introduction</i></dd> <dd><i>Redaction I</i></dd> <dd><i>Redaction II</i></dd> <dd><i>Redaction III</i></dd> <dd><i>Miniugad</i></dd> <dd><i>O'Cleric's Recension</i></dd></dl> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td><i>Cath Maige Tured Conga</i> </td> <td><i>The First Battle of Mag Tured</i> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td><i>Do Cath Mhuighe Tuireadh Ann So</i> </td> <td><i>The Second Battle of Mag Tured</i> </td> <td>Version A </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td><i>Do Cath Mhuighe Tuireadh Ann So</i> </td> <td><i>The Second Battle of Mag Tured</i> </td> <td>Version B </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td><i>Aided chloinne Tuireann</i> </td> <td><i>The Fate of the Children of Tuireann</i> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td><i>Aided Chloinne Lir</i> </td> <td><i>The Fate of the Children of Lir</i> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td> </td> <td><i>The Fate of Sinann</i> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td><i>Scel Tuain maic Cairill do Finnan Maige Bile inso sis</i> </td> <td><i>Tuan mac Cairill's Story to Finnen of Moville here below</i> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td> </td> <td><i>The Colloquy between Fintan and the Hawk of Achill</i> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td> </td> <td><i>The Voyage of Bran</i> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td> </td> <td><i>The Tale of Etain</i> </td> <td> <dl><dd><i>The Wooing of Etain (version A)</i></dd> <dd><i>The Wooing of Etain (version B)</i></dd> <dd><i>The Wooing of Etain (version C)</i></dd> <dd><i>The Wooing of Etain (version D)</i></dd> <dd><i>The Nourishment of the House of the Two Pails</i></dd></dl> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td> </td> <td><i>The Taking of the Sid</i> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td> </td> <td><i>The Dream of Oengus</i> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td> </td> <td><i>The Tale of Mongan</i> </td> <td> <dl><dd><i>The Birth of Mongan</i></dd> <dd><i>A Story from which it is inferred that Mongan was Finn Mac Cumaill</i></dd> <dd><i>A Story of Mongan</i></dd> <dd><i>The Cause of Mongan's Frenzy</i></dd> <dd><i>The Conception of Mongan and Dub-Lacha's Love for Mongan</i></dd> <dd><i>Why Mongan was Deprived of Noble Issue</i></dd></dl> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td> </td> <td><i>The Settling of the Manor of Tara</i> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td> </td> <td><i>Fingen's Night Watch</i> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History_of_the_Mythological_Cycle">History of the Mythological Cycle</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mythological_Cycle&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: History of the Mythological Cycle"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The main source of mythology comes from <i>The Book of Invasions</i>, or <i><a href="/wiki/Lebor_Gabala_Erenn" class="mw-redirect" title="Lebor Gabala Erenn">Lebor Gabala Erenn</a></i>. It is an abridged compilation of both prose and poetry on the origins of Ireland and the extraordinary deities. The original was more expansive, but perished in what is to be assumed Viking raids, or being claimed during war time. </p><p>A supplemental text is attributed to a chronicler that goes by the name Keating, who published his book in the 17th century. He had access to materials that have not yet been published. Nennius and Eochaid Ua Flainn, chroniclers who lived during the 10th century, recorded mythological Irish history by way of poetry. Though their contributions are short and semi-vague, they contain a lot of precious information on Ireland's spiritual beliefs of the time. The Tuatha De Danann can be linked to the same origins as the gods in Greek mythology. <a href="/wiki/Hesiod" title="Hesiod">Hesiod</a> calls the Greek Gods "the Golden Race," and similar attributes are seen in the Celtic gods.<sup id="cite_ref-deJubainville-1884-Best-1903-CeltMyth_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-deJubainville-1884-Best-1903-CeltMyth-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Irish mythology, Ireland was subject to 6 invasions. The first 5 were from otherworldy beings, and the last was from Milesians.<sup id="cite_ref-Price-2008_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Price-2008-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Tuatha De Danann were known to come from the heavens, but that may be from scribes not knowing how to execute their origin. So the scribes borrowed from past religions like the Greek, Roman, and Eastern myth to create an origin story. The Gauls were thought to come from underneath the Earth. This information had been passed down from druids from Dispater, the God of the underworld. </p><p>Earth was thought to be a woman at the time, so this was thought to be a metaphorical birth, not ascending from hell. The earth, moon, and sun were thought to be created by druids, much like how Brahmans boasted the same cosmogony story. Much like preceding myth, the Gauls believed the trees and mountains held up the sky.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>These stories stayed in the <a href="/wiki/Oral_tradition" title="Oral tradition">oral tradition</a> because the Irish had not been invaded at the time, like surrounding countries. In conjunction, the druidic schools wanted to maintain the stories in verbal form. This kept the stories in circulation to the culture and public. When Christian scribes came to Ireland, they wrote down the stories in Latin. In succeeding centuries many of the texts were lost or destroyed during Viking raids. The remaining texts were re-recorded in manuscripts in the 11th and 12th century. Though previous manuscripts were are dated to 3-4 centuries earlier in the Irish language.<sup id="cite_ref-Heaney-1994_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Heaney-1994-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History_of_the_Tuatha_Dé_Danann"><span id="History_of_the_Tuatha_D.C3.A9_Danann"></span>History of the Tuatha Dé Danann</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mythological_Cycle&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: History of the Tuatha Dé Danann"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Tuatha_D%C3%A9_Danann" title="Tuatha Dé Danann">Tuatha Dé Danann</a> are divine beings that came to Ireland by ships and inhabited the country before the native Irish. They came to Ireland to take the land from the <a href="/wiki/Fir_Bolg" title="Fir Bolg">Fir Bolgs</a> that had already been residing in the north of Ireland at the time. The Tuatha were immediately perceived as gods for their superior skills: various arts of druidry, magic, prophecy and history. Their leader was named Nuada. He led them to war against the Fir Bolgs around the west shore of Ireland, where the Tuatha had arrived by ship. Many of the Tuatha died in this war, but thousands of Fir Bolgs died. Including their leader, Eochai Mac Erc. They come from another world, but reside in Ireland until they were pushed out by war with a semi-demonic race called the <a href="/wiki/Fomorian" class="mw-redirect" title="Fomorian">Fomorians</a>. Their king is known in the mythology as Balor. The Fomorians resided on the outskirts of Ireland. When the Tuatha Dé Danann were defeated in battle against the <a href="/wiki/Milesians_(Irish)" title="Milesians (Irish)">Milesians</a>, they were forced to live underground in the <a href="/wiki/Aos_S%C3%AD" title="Aos Sí">Sidhes</a>. The Sidhes were chambers under Ireland's surface. Though away from the mortal world, they still would come to surface on special days like Hallowe'en and May Day.<sup id="cite_ref-Heaney-1994_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Heaney-1994-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Verse_texts">Verse texts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mythological_Cycle&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Verse texts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Besides independent verses, a number of poems are embedded in prose tales, etc. A number of them are also preserved in the pseudohistorical <i><a href="/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn" title="Lebor Gabála Érenn">Lebor Gabála Érenn</a></i>, Keating, etc. </p> <ul><li><span title="Scottish Gaelic-language text"><i lang="gd">Arsaidh sin a eóuin Accla</i></span> ("Fintan and the Hawk of Aicill")</li> <li>Coire Érmai / Coire Goriath ("The Cauldron of Poesy")</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lore">Lore</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mythological_Cycle&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Lore"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Collected lore are not wholly of mythological content, but parts of it are. "The Fitness of Names" (#149–159, etc.) provides interesting explanations on names of <a href="/wiki/Dian_Cecht" title="Dian Cecht">Dian Cecht</a> among others. Irish <a href="/wiki/Onomastics" title="Onomastics">onomastica</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Dindshenchas" class="mw-redirect" title="Dindshenchas">Dindshenchas</a>, also include stories about deities such as <a href="/wiki/Boann" title="Boann">Boann</a> (under Inber Colptha), the <a href="/wiki/Dagda" class="mw-redirect" title="Dagda">Dagda</a> (under Fidh nGaible), Brecan (<a href="/wiki/Coire_Bhreacan" class="mw-redirect" title="Coire Bhreacan">Coire Brecain</a>), often in developed narrative verse or prose tales. Genealogical tracts and the <i>Roll of the Kings</i>, various glosses (e.g. to the law treatise <i>Senchus Mor</i>) may also be culled for information. </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Banshenchas" title="Banshenchas">Banshenchas</a></i> ("History of Women") <a href="#CITEREFDobbs1932">Dobbs 1932</a></li> <li>Cóir Anmann ("The Fitness of Names"): <a href="#CITEREFStokes1897">Stokes 1897</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dindsenchas" title="Dindsenchas">Dindsenchas</a> ("Lore of Places")</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sanas_Cormaic" title="Sanas Cormaic">Sanas Cormaic</a></i> ("Cormac's Glossary"): Nes[s] (Nescoit)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triads_of_Ireland" title="Triads of Ireland">Triads of Ireland</a>: mention of the indeoin Dagdai, ox of Díl, etc.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pseudohistory">Pseudohistory</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mythological_Cycle&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Pseudohistory"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Chronicon_Scotorum" title="Chronicon Scotorum">Chronicon Scotorum</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn" title="Lebor Gabála Érenn">Lebor Gabála Érenn</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Folktales">Folktales</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mythological_Cycle&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Folktales"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Glas_Gaibhnenn" title="Glas Gaibhnenn">Glas Gaibhnenn</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prose_tales">Prose tales</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mythological_Cycle&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Prose tales"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following prose tales are described in greater depth in the following section. </p> <table style="text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" class="wikitable"> <caption><b><span style="font-size:120%">Prose tales and current sources</span></b> </caption> <tbody><tr style="vertical-align:bottom;"> <th>Irish title</th> <th>English title</th> <th>Remarks & Notes</th> <th>Sources </th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Aislinge_%C3%93enguso" class="mw-redirect" title="Aislinge Óenguso">Aislinge Óenguso</a></i> </td> <td>Dream of <a href="/wiki/Aengus" title="Aengus">Aengus</a> </td> <td>remscél to <i><a href="/wiki/T%C3%A1in_B%C3%B3_C%C3%BAailnge" title="Táin Bó Cúailnge">Táin Bó Cúailnge</a></i> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td><i>Altram Tige Dá Medar</i> </td> <td>The Fosterage of the House of Two [Milk-]Vessels </td> <td>alt. "Tale of Curchóg"<sup id="cite_ref-O-Curry-1862-Curchóg_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-O-Curry-1862-Curchóg-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDobbs1929_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDobbs1929-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td><i>Cath Muige Tuired Cunga</i> </td> <td>The [First] Battle of Mag Tuired of Cong </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Cath_Maige_Tuired" title="Cath Maige Tuired">Cath Maige Tuired</a></i> </td> <td>The Second Battle of Mag Tuired </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td><i>Ceithri cathracha i r-robadar Tuatha De Danand</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Four_Jewels_of_the_Tuatha_D%C3%A9_Danann" class="mw-redirect" title="Four Jewels of the Tuatha Dé Danann">Four Jewels of the Tuatha Dé Danann</a> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td><i>De Gabáil in t-Sída</i> </td> <td>The Taking of the Fairy Mound </td> <td>remscél to <i><a href="/wiki/T%C3%A1in_B%C3%B3_C%C3%BAailnge" title="Táin Bó Cúailnge">Táin Bó Cúailnge</a></i> </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHull1933_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHull1933-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td><i>Echtra Nera</i>[<i>i</i>] </td> <td>The Adventures of Nera] </td> <td>remscél to <i><a href="/wiki/T%C3%A1in_B%C3%B3_C%C3%BAailnge" title="Táin Bó Cúailnge">Táin Bó Cúailnge</a></i> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td><i>Eachtra Léithín</i> </td> <td>The Adventures of Léithín </td> <td>mod. versions </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHyde1915_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHyde1915-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td> </td> <td>How the <a href="/wiki/Dagda" class="mw-redirect" title="Dagda">Dagda</a> Got His Magic Staff (club) </td> <td> </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBergin1927_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBergin1927-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td><i>Oidheadh Chloinne Lir</i> </td> <td>The Fate of the <a href="/wiki/Children_of_Lir" title="Children of Lir">Children of Lir</a> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td><i>Oidheadh Chloinne Tuirenn</i> </td> <td>The Fate of the Children of <a href="/wiki/Tuireann" title="Tuireann">Tuirenn</a> </td> <td>late romance </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td><i>Scél Tuáin meic Chairill</i> </td> <td>The Story of Tuán son of Cairell </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td><i>Tochomlod Nemid co hErin</i> (?) </td> <td>The Invasion of Nemed </td> <td>frag. </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHull1935_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHull1935-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td><i>Tochomlod mac Miledh a hEspain i nErind</i> </td> <td>The Progress of the Sons of Mil from Spain to Ireland </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>f<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDobbs1937_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDobbs1937-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Survey_of_prose_tales">Survey of prose tales</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mythological_Cycle&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Survey of prose tales"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The euhemerised deities arrived in five sets of migrations (see <i><a href="/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn#Contents" title="Lebor Gabála Érenn">Lebor Gabála Érenn</a></i>), but none of the individual migrations tales (<i><a href="/wiki/Irish_language" title="Irish language">Irish</a>: <i lang="ga">tochomlada</i></i>; sing. <i>tochomlod</i>) survived intact.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>g<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>h<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Remnants of the migration tales are the summarised accounts given in the <i><a href="/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn" title="Lebor Gabála Érenn">Lebor Gabála Érenn</a></i> (<i>Book of Invasions</i>). Apart from these are the tale of <a href="/wiki/Tuan_mac_Cairill" title="Tuan mac Cairill">Tuan mac Cairill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fintan_mac_B%C3%B3chra" title="Fintan mac Bóchra">Fintan mac Bóchra</a> <a href="#Verse_texts">colloquy</a>. Tuan and Fintan are ancient beings from the Antediluvian past, who have reincaranted into different creatures, and are referred to in the <i><a href="/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn" title="Lebor Gabála Érenn">Lebor Gabála Érenn</a></i> as well.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Of the battle tales (<a href="/wiki/Irish_language" title="Irish language">Irish</a>: <i lang="ga">catha</i>; sing. cath), the full narratives of the First and Second Battle of Moytura (<a href="/wiki/Cath_Maige_Tuired" title="Cath Maige Tuired">Battles of Mag Tuired</a>) survive in relatively late (16th century) manuscripts.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>i<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other important battle tales such as the <i>Cath Tailten</i> (Battle of Tailten) or <i>Orgain Tuir Chonaind</i> ("Massacre of Conan's Tower") are lost, though abstracted in the <i><a href="/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn" title="Lebor Gabála Érenn">Lebor Gabála Érenn</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The late romance of <i>Oidheadh Chloinne Tuireann</i> ("The Fate of the Children of Tuireann") tells how <a href="/wiki/Lugh" title="Lugh">Lugh</a> fines the sons of <a href="/wiki/Tuireann" title="Tuireann">Tuireann</a> for his father <a href="/wiki/Cian" title="Cian">Cian</a>'s murder, compelling them to collect a series of magical objects and weapons which will be useful in the second battle of Mag Tuired against the <a href="/wiki/Fomorians" title="Fomorians">Fomorians</a>. An earlier version of this is recorded in the <i><a href="/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn" title="Lebor Gabála Érenn">Lebor Gabála Érenn</a></i>, with a somewhat different list of fines (<span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eiric&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eiric (page does not exist)">eiric</a></i></span>), with no indication the murder happened on the eve of the great battle.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Children_of_Lir" title="Children of Lir">Oidheadh Chloinne Lir</a></i> ("The Fate of the Children of Lir"), the eponymous children are turned into swans by their jealous stepmother, and live in swan form into Christian times, when they are converted, transformed back into human form, and die of extreme old age. </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Tochmarc_%C3%89ta%C3%ADne" title="Tochmarc Étaíne">Tochmarc Étaíne</a></i> ("The Wooing of Étaín") tells first of the conception of <a href="/wiki/Aengus" title="Aengus">Aengus</a> through the adultery of the <a href="/wiki/Dagda" class="mw-redirect" title="Dagda">Dagda</a> and <a href="/wiki/Boann" title="Boann">Boann</a>, and how <a href="/wiki/Aengus" title="Aengus">Aengus</a> won the residence of the <i><a href="/wiki/Br%C3%BA_na_B%C3%B3inne" title="Brú na Bóinne">Brú na Bóinne</a></i> from Boann's husband <a href="/wiki/Elcmar" title="Elcmar">Elcmar</a>. It goes on to tell of the various lives of <a href="/wiki/%C3%89ta%C3%ADn" title="Étaín">Étaín</a>, wife of <a href="/wiki/Midir" title="Midir">Midir</a>, who is turned into a fly and driven away by Midir's jealous first wife <a href="/wiki/Fuamnach" title="Fuamnach">Fuamnach</a>. In her insect form she becomes the companion of Aengus, until Fuamnach once again drives her away, and she is swallowed by a mortal woman and reborn as her daughter. Her beauty attracts the attention of the <a href="/wiki/High_King_of_Ireland" title="High King of Ireland">High King</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eochaid_Airem" class="mw-redirect" title="Eochaid Airem">Eochaid Airem</a>, who marries her; ultimately her berift husband <a href="/wiki/Midir" title="Midir">Midir</a> uses magic and trickery to win her back. </p><p>There is also a curious account regarding <a href="/wiki/Go%C3%ADdel_Glas" title="Goídel Glas">Goídel Glas</a>, the legendary ancestor of the migratory races and eponymous creator of the Gaelic language, and how he was cured by Moses's rod from a snake bite, related to in the <i><a href="/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn" title="Lebor Gabála Érenn">Lebor Gabála Érenn</a></i>, although Macalister is dismissive of it as fiction invented by glossators.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mythological_Cycle&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_High_Kings_of_Ireland" title="List of High Kings of Ireland">List of High Kings of Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metrical_Dindshenchas" class="mw-redirect" title="Metrical Dindshenchas">Metrical Dindshenchas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Early_Irish_astrology" title="Early Irish astrology">Celtic astrology</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Footnotes">Footnotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mythological_Cycle&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Footnotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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used in any publication.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <a href="#CITEREFMackillop1998">Mackillop 1998</a>, mythological cycle "Somewhat awkward today, the phrase 'Mythological Cycle' was coined to describe those early stories that, in the absence of a Celtic cosmology, deal most with origins and the discernible remnants of pre-Christian religion; its first usage pre-dates the currency of 'Celtic Mythology'".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> "The Tuatha De Danann, also, after having been with visible body, sole masters of the earth, assume in a later age invisibility, and share with men folk the dominion of the world".<sup id="cite_ref-deJubainville-1884-Best-1903-CeltMyth_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-deJubainville-1884-Best-1903-CeltMyth-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page:  7">(p 7)</span></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <a href="#CITEREFMackillop1998">Mackillop 1998</a>, <i>féth fiada</i>, the story of the assigning by Mananán of the sidhe to individual TDD is found in the tale <i>Altrom Tighe Dá Medar</i>. But cf. <i>De Gabáil in t-Sída</i> [<i>The Taking of the Fairy Mound</i> (cited below). The <i><a href="/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn" title="Lebor Gabála Érenn">Lebor Gabála Érenn</a></i> explains away the magic fog as smoke from the ships the TDD burnt upon arrival.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Lugh appears in the <a href="/wiki/Compert_Con_Culainn" title="Compert Con Culainn">Compert Con Cúlainn</a>, the Great Queen in the <a href="/wiki/T%C3%A1in_B%C3%B3_C%C3%BAailnge" title="Táin Bó Cúailnge">Táin Bó Cúailnge</a> proper and possibly, under a different moniker, in the <i>Táin Bó Regamna</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> The text published in <a href="#CITEREFDobbs1937">Dobbs 1937</a> was noticed by O'Curry, but evidently he felt this was not a full-fledged migration tale, but an excerpted account only (on par with the <i><a href="/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn" title="Lebor Gabála Érenn">Lebor Gabála Érenn</a></i>), and characterized it as merely a source for the Battle of <a href="/wiki/Tailtiu" title="Tailtiu">Tailtiu</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Arbois de Jubainville & Best (1884, 1903)<sup id="cite_ref-deJubainville-1884-Best-1903-CeltMyth_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-deJubainville-1884-Best-1903-CeltMyth-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> write about he "catalogue of Irish epic literature" in the LL of and other mss., which is a listing of the important tales (primscéla). There is a sub-list under the heading "'Tochomoloda' or Emigration", and "of the thirteen pieces contained in this ... seven are mythological: 1. Tochomold Partholon ..." (p. 4); "Unfortunately, none of the seven pieces ... is now extant" (p. 12), except for the Nemed fragment (see list below). The author dates the compiling of the original catalogue to 700 CE, with later additions to the list around 950 CE.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> See <a href="#CITEREFO'Curry1878">O'Curry 1878</a>, pp. 243 ff for a discussion of the catalogue (ancient lists of story titles), and his Appendix LXXXIX, pp 584–593 for a transcription of the actual catalogue from the Book of Leinster; cf. Tochlomod. <dl><dd></dd></dl> Cf. however <a href="#CITEREFHull1935">Hull 1935</a> and <a href="#CITEREFDobbs1937">Dobbs 1937</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> The first battle in a unique manuscript <span class="nowrap">(TCD H 2.17);</span> second battle in Harl. 5280, and a <span class="nowrap">RIA 24 P 9</span> somewhat later (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1650</span>). See Scéla's site.<sup id="cite_ref-Scéla-site_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scéla-site-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mythological_Cycle&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 25em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMackillop1998">Mackillop 1998</a>, 'Tuatha Dé Danann' "..principal family of euhemerized pre-Christian Deities".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Koch-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Koch_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Koch_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKoch2006" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/John_T._Koch" title="John T. Koch">Koch, John</a> (2006). <i>Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia</i>. ABC-CLIO. p. 1326.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Celtic+Culture%3A+A+Historical+Encyclopedia&rft.pages=1326&rft.pub=ABC-CLIO&rft.date=2006&rft.aulast=Koch&rft.aufirst=John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMythological+Cycle" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMackillop1998">Mackillop 1998</a>, loc. cit.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMackillop1998">Mackillop 1998</a>, loc cit.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-deJubainville-1884-Best-1903-CeltMyth-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-deJubainville-1884-Best-1903-CeltMyth_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-deJubainville-1884-Best-1903-CeltMyth_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-deJubainville-1884-Best-1903-CeltMyth_7-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFArbois_de_Jubainville1884" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a href="/wiki/Marie_Henri_d%27Arbois_de_Jubainville" title="Marie Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville">Arbois de Jubainville, Marie Henri de</a> (1884). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=zFscAAAAMAAJ"><i>Le cycle mythologique irlandais et la mythologie celtique</i></a> [<i>The Irish mythological cycle and Celtic mythology</i>] (in French). Paris, FR: Ernest Thorin – via Google Books.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Le+cycle+mythologique+irlandais+et+la+mythologie+celtique&rft.place=Paris%2C+FR&rft.pub=Ernest+Thorin&rft.date=1884&rft.aulast=Arbois+de+Jubainville&rft.aufirst=Marie+Henri+de&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DzFscAAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMythological+Cycle" class="Z3988"></span> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFArbois_de_JubainvilleBest1903" class="citation book cs1">Arbois de Jubainville, Marie Henri de; Best, Richard Irvine (1903) [1884]. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=7EPXAAAAMAAJ"><i>Irish Mythological Cycle and Celtic Mythology</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(google)</span> (EN translation of FR orig 1884 ed.). Dublin, IE: O'Donoghue.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Irish+Mythological+Cycle+and+Celtic+Mythology&rft.place=Dublin%2C+IE&rft.edition=EN+translation+of+FR+orig+1884&rft.pub=O%27Donoghue&rft.date=1903&rft.aulast=Arbois+de+Jubainville&rft.aufirst=Marie+Henri+de&rft.au=Best%2C+Richard+Irvine&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D7EPXAAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMythological+Cycle" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Price-2008-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Price-2008_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPrice2008" class="citation book cs1">Price, Bill (2008). <i>Celtic Myths</i>. Pocket Essentials.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Celtic+Myths&rft.series=Pocket+Essentials&rft.date=2008&rft.aulast=Price&rft.aufirst=Bill&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMythological+Cycle" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMacCullough1911" class="citation book cs1">MacCullough, J.A. (1911). <i>The Religion of the Ancient Celts</i>. T & T Clark.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Religion+of+the+Ancient+Celts.&rft.pub=T+%26+T+Clark&rft.date=1911&rft.aulast=MacCullough&rft.aufirst=J.A.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMythological+Cycle" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Heaney-1994-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Heaney-1994_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Heaney-1994_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHeaney1994" class="citation book cs1">Heaney, Marie (1994). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/overninewavesboo00hean"><i>Over Nine Waves</i></a></span>. Faber and Faber. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780571142316" title="Special:BookSources/9780571142316"><bdi>9780571142316</bdi></a> – via Internet Archive (archive.org).</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Over+Nine+Waves&rft.pub=Faber+and+Faber&rft.date=1994&rft.isbn=9780571142316&rft.aulast=Heaney&rft.aufirst=Marie&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Foverninewavesboo00hean&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMythological+Cycle" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-O-Curry-1862-Curchóg-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-O-Curry-1862-Curchóg_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFO'Curry1862" class="citation magazine cs1">O'Curry (1862). "<span style="color:gray">[no title cited]</span>". <i>Atlantis</i>. Vol. III. pp. 384 ff.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Atlantis&rft.atitle=%3Cspan+style%3D%22color%3Agray%22%3E%5Bno+title+cited%5D%3C%2Fspan%3E&rft.volume=III&rft.pages=384+ff&rft.date=1862&rft.au=O%27Curry&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMythological+Cycle" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDobbs1929-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDobbs1929_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDobbs1929">Dobbs 1929</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHull1933-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHull1933_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHull1933">Hull 1933</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHyde1915-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHyde1915_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHyde1915">Hyde 1915</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBergin1927-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBergin1927_18-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBergin1927">Bergin 1927</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHull1935-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHull1935_19-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHull1935">Hull 1935</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDobbs1937-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDobbs1937_21-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDobbs1937">Dobbs 1937</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">e.g. at <a href="#CITEREFMacalister1956">Macalister 1956</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn" title="Lebor Gabála Érenn">Lebor Gabála Érenn</a></i>, Part 5, ¶385</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Scéla-site-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Scéla-site_25-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061231232352/http://www.volny.cz/enelen/sc.htm#c59">"Scéla"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://volny.cz/enelen/sc.htm#c59">the original</a> on 31 December 2006.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Sc%C3%A9la&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fvolny.cz%2Fenelen%2Fsc.htm%23c59&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMythological+Cycle" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFO'Curry1878">O'Curry 1878</a>, loc. cit. (p. 583 ff, catalogue from LL); see O'Curry's footnotes.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMacalister1941">Macalister 1941</a>, Part IV, §VII, ¶319</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMacalister1939">Macalister 1939</a>, vol. 2, p. 134 (= notes to ¶119), "... is glossarial"</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dictionaries">Dictionaries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mythological_Cycle&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Dictionaries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBergin1927" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Bergin, Osborn (1927). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100327222651/http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/dagda.html">"How the Dagda Got his Magic Staff"</a>. <i>Medieval Studies in Memory of <a href="/wiki/Gertrude_Schoepperle" title="Gertrude Schoepperle">Gertrude Schoepperle Loomis</a></i>. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 399–406. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/dagda.html">the original</a> on 27 March 2010<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">10 March</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=How+the+Dagda+Got+his+Magic+Staff&rft.btitle=Medieval+Studies+in+Memory+of+Gertrude+Schoepperle+Loomis&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=399-406&rft.pub=Columbia+University+Press&rft.date=1927&rft.aulast=Bergin&rft.aufirst=Osborn&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.maryjones.us%2Fctexts%2Fdagda.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMythological+Cycle" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMackillop1998" class="citation book cs1">Mackillop, James (1998). <i>Dictionary of Celtic Mythology</i>. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-280120-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-280120-1"><bdi>0-19-280120-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Dictionary+of+Celtic+Mythology&rft.place=New+York%2C+NY&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=0-19-280120-1&rft.aulast=Mackillop&rft.aufirst=James&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMythological+Cycle" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Critical_studies">Critical studies</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mythological_Cycle&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Critical studies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFArbois_de_Jubainville1884" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Marie_Henri_d%27Arbois_de_Jubainville" title="Marie Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville">Arbois de Jubainville, Marie Henri de</a> (1884). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=zFscAAAAMAAJ"><i>Le cycle mythologique irlandais et la mythologie celtique</i></a> [<i>The Irish mythological cycle and Celtic mythology</i>]. Paris, FR: Ernest Thorin – via Google Books.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Le+cycle+mythologique+irlandais+et+la+mythologie+celtique&rft.place=Paris%2C+FR&rft.pub=Ernest+Thorin&rft.date=1884&rft.aulast=Arbois+de+Jubainville&rft.aufirst=Marie+Henri+de&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DzFscAAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMythological+Cycle" class="Z3988"></span> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFArbois_de_JubainvilleBest1903" class="citation book cs1">Arbois de Jubainville, Marie Henri de; Best, Richard Irvine (1903). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=7EPXAAAAMAAJ"><i>The Irish mythological cycle and Celtic mythology</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(google)</span> (translation ed.). Dublin, IE: O'Donoghue.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Irish+mythological+cycle+and+Celtic+mythology&rft.place=Dublin%2C+IE&rft.edition=translation&rft.pub=O%27Donoghue&rft.date=1903&rft.aulast=Arbois+de+Jubainville&rft.aufirst=Marie+Henri+de&rft.au=Best%2C+Richard+Irvine&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D7EPXAAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMythological+Cycle" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFO'Curry1878" class="citation book cs1">O'Curry, Eugene (1878). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=HAMGAAAAQAAJ"><i>Lectures on the manuscript materials of ancient Irish history</i></a>. Dublin: William A. Hinch / Patrick Traynor – via Google Books.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lectures+on+the+manuscript+materials+of+ancient+Irish+history&rft.place=Dublin&rft.pub=William+A.+Hinch+%2F+Patrick+Traynor&rft.date=1878&rft.aulast=O%27Curry&rft.aufirst=Eugene&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DHAMGAAAAQAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMythological+Cycle" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Primary_sources">Primary sources</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mythological_Cycle&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Primary sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDobbs1929" class="citation journal cs1">Dobbs, Margaret E. (1929). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=EFIpAQAAIAAJ">"Altrom Tighi da Meadar"</a> [The Fosterage of the House of Two Goblets] <span class="cs1-format">(snippet)</span>. <i>Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie</i>. <b>18</b>: 187–230 – via Google Books.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Zeitschrift+f%C3%BCr+celtische+Philologie&rft.atitle=Altrom+Tighi+da+Meadar&rft.volume=18&rft.pages=187-230&rft.date=1929&rft.aulast=Dobbs&rft.aufirst=Margaret+E.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DEFIpAQAAIAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMythological+Cycle" class="Z3988"></span> (ed. & tr.) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/fosterage.html">(CLC, English)</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDobbs1932" class="citation journal cs1">Dobbs, Margaret E. 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Dublin: Irish Texts Society – via Internet Archive.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lebor+Gab%C3%A1la+%C3%89renn&rft.place=Dublin&rft.pub=Irish+Texts+Society&rft.date=1938&rft.aulast=Macalister&rft.aufirst=Robert+Alexander+Stewart&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fleborgablare01macauoft&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMythological+Cycle" class="Z3988"></span> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMacalister1939" class="citation book cs1">Macalister, Robert Alexander Stewart (1939). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=vS5KAAAAYAAJ"><i>Lebor Gabála Érenn</i></a> [<i>The Book of the Taking of Ireland</i>] <span class="cs1-format">(snippet)</span>. Vol. 2. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-870166-35-3" title="Special:BookSources/1-870166-35-3"><bdi>1-870166-35-3</bdi></a> – via Google Books.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lebor+Gab%C3%A1la+%C3%89renn&rft.date=1939&rft.isbn=1-870166-35-3&rft.aulast=Macalister&rft.aufirst=Robert+Alexander+Stewart&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DvS5KAAAAYAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMythological+Cycle" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMacalister1940" class="citation book cs1">Macalister, Robert Alexander Stewart (1940). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/leborgablare03macauoft"><i>Lebor Gabála Érenn</i></a> [<i>The Book of the Taking of Ireland</i>]. 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Hirzel: 285–444 – via Google Books.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Irische+Texte&rft.atitle=C%C3%B3ir+Anmann&rft.volume=3%2C+part+2&rft.pages=285-444&rft.date=1897&rft.aulast=Stokes&rft.aufirst=Whitley&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D7SkPAQAAMAAJ%26pg%3DPA285&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMythological+Cycle" class="Z3988"></span> (auth. = tr. & ed.)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHull1933" class="citation journal cs1">Hull, Vernam (1933). "De Gabáil in t-Sída" [Concerning the Seizure of the Fairy Mound]. <i>Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie</i>. <b>19</b>: 53–58.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Zeitschrift+f%C3%BCr+celtische+Philologie&rft.atitle=De+Gab%C3%A1il+in+t-S%C3%ADda&rft.volume=19&rft.pages=53-58&rft.date=1933&rft.aulast=Hull&rft.aufirst=Vernam&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMythological+Cycle" class="Z3988"></span> (auth. = tr. & ed.) cf. <i>The Taking of the Síd-mound</i> @ Paddy Brown's site.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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"The Invasion of Nemed". <i>Modern Philology</i>. <b>33</b> (2): 119–123. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1086%2F388185">10.1086/388185</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:161087706">161087706</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Modern+Philology&rft.atitle=The+Invasion+of+Nemed&rft.volume=33&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=119-123&rft.date=1935&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1086%2F388185&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A161087706%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Hull&rft.aufirst=Vernam&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMythological+Cycle" class="Z3988"></span> available via <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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title="The Dagda">Dagda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delb%C3%A1eth" title="Delbáeth">Delbáeth</a>-<a href="/wiki/Tuireann" title="Tuireann">Tuirenn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dian_Cecht" title="Dian Cecht">Dian Cecht</a>-<a href="/wiki/Miach" title="Miach">Miach</a>-<a href="/wiki/Airmed" title="Airmed">Airmed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ecne" title="Ecne">Ecne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernmas" title="Ernmas">Ernmas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89ta%C3%ADn" title="Étaín">Étaín</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89riu" title="Ériu">Ériu</a>-<a href="/wiki/Banba" title="Banba">Banba</a>-<a href="/wiki/F%C3%B3dla" title="Fódla">Fódla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fiacha_mac_Delba%C3%ADth" title="Fiacha mac Delbaíth">Fiacha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flidais" title="Flidais">Flidais</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fuamnach" title="Fuamnach">Fuamnach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9n" title="Lén">Lén</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lir" title="Lir">Lir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lugh" title="Lugh">Lug</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mac_Gr%C3%A9ine" title="Mac Gréine">Mac Gréine</a>-<a href="/wiki/Mac_Cuill" title="Mac Cuill">Mac Cuill</a>-<a href="/wiki/Mac_Cecht" title="Mac Cecht">Mac Cecht</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macha" title="Macha">Macha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manann%C3%A1n_mac_Lir" title="Manannán mac Lir">Manannán</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midir" title="Midir">Midir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Morr%C3%ADgan" title="The Morrígan">Morrígan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Badb" title="Badb">Badb</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nemain" title="Nemain">Nemain</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neit" title="Neit">Neit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nuada_Airgetl%C3%A1m" title="Nuada Airgetlám">Nuada</a> (<a href="/wiki/Nechtan_(mythology)" title="Nechtan (mythology)">Nechtan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elcmar" title="Elcmar">Elcmar</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ogma" title="Ogma">Ogma</a></li> <li>Trí Dé Dána (<a href="/wiki/Goibniu" title="Goibniu">Goibniu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Creidhne" 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Cennfinnán</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fodbgen" title="Fodbgen">Fodbgen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gann_mac_Dela" title="Gann mac Dela">Gann</a>-<a href="/wiki/Genann" title="Genann">Genann</a>-<a href="/wiki/Sengann_mac_Dela" title="Sengann mac Dela">Sengann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rinnal" title="Rinnal">Rinnal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rudraige_mac_Dela" title="Rudraige mac Dela">Rudraige</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sl%C3%A1ine_mac_Dela" title="Sláine mac Dela">Sláine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sreng" title="Sreng">Sreng</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#c1e6c1;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Milesians_(Irish)" title="Milesians (Irish)">Milesians</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amergin_Gl%C3%BAingel" title="Amergin Glúingel">Amergin Glúingel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Breog%C3%A1n" 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title="List of Northern Ireland–related topics">topics</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="History" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/History_of_Ireland" title="History of Ireland">History</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.25em"><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_Irish_history" title="Timeline of Irish history">Timeline</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_Ireland" title="Prehistoric Ireland">Prehistory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protohistory_of_Ireland" title="Protohistory of Ireland">Protohistory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Ireland_(400%E2%80%93800)" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Ireland (400–800)">Early history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaelic_Ireland" title="Gaelic Ireland">Gaelic Ireland</a> / <a href="/wiki/Lordship_of_Ireland" title="Lordship of Ireland">Lordship of Ireland</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Ireland_(800%E2%80%931169)" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Ireland (800–1169)">800–1169</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Ireland_(1169%E2%80%931536)" title="History of Ireland (1169–1536)">1169–1536</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Ireland" title="Kingdom of Ireland">Kingdom of Ireland</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Ireland_(1536%E2%80%931691)" title="History of Ireland (1536–1691)">1536–1691</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Ireland_(1691%E2%80%931800)" title="History of Ireland (1691–1800)">1691–1800</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland">United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Ireland_(1801%E2%80%931923)" title="History of Ireland (1801–1923)">1801–1923</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irish_Republic" title="Irish Republic">Irish Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Ireland_(1921%E2%80%931922)" title="Southern Ireland (1921–1922)">Southern Ireland (1921–1922)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a> (1921–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Northern_Ireland" title="History of Northern Ireland">since 1922</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irish_Free_State" title="Irish Free State">Irish Free State (1922–1937)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="History of the Republic of Ireland">Ireland (since 1922)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.25em">Events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tara_(Ireland)" title="Battle of Tara (Ireland)">Battles of Tara</a> / <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Glenmama" title="Battle of Glenmama">Glenmama</a> / <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Clontarf" title="Battle of Clontarf">Clontarf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Norman_invasion_of_Ireland" title="Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland">Norman invasion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruce_campaign_in_Ireland" title="Bruce campaign in Ireland">Bruce campaign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Death" title="Black Death">Black Death</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tudor_conquest_of_Ireland" title="Tudor conquest of Ireland">Tudor conquest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Desmond_Rebellions" title="Desmond Rebellions">Desmond Rebellions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_Armada_in_Ireland" title="Spanish Armada in Ireland">Spanish Armada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nine_Years%27_War_(Ireland)" title="Nine Years' War (Ireland)">Tyrone's Rebellion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flight_of_the_Earls" title="Flight of the Earls">Flight of the Earls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plantation_of_Ulster" title="Plantation of Ulster">Plantation of Ulster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irish_Rebellion_of_1641" title="Irish Rebellion of 1641">1641 Rebellion</a> / <a href="/wiki/Irish_Confederate_Wars" title="Irish Confederate Wars">Confederate War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cromwellian_conquest_of_Ireland" title="Cromwellian conquest of Ireland">Cromwellian conquest</a> / <a href="/wiki/Act_for_the_Settlement_of_Ireland_1652" title="Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652">Settlement of 1652</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Williamite_War_in_Ireland" title="Williamite War in Ireland">Williamite War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penal_laws_(Ireland)" title="Penal laws (Ireland)">Penal Laws</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irish_Famine_(1740%E2%80%931741)" title="Irish Famine (1740–1741)">First Great Famine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irish_Rebellion_of_1798" title="Irish Rebellion of 1798">1798 Rebellion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Acts_of_Union_1800" title="Acts of Union 1800">Act of Union (1800)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irish_rebellion_of_1803" title="Irish rebellion of 1803">1803 Rebellion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tithe_War" title="Tithe War">Tithe War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)" title="Great Famine (Ireland)">Second Great Famine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Land_War" title="Land War">Land War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fenian_Rising" title="Fenian Rising">Fenian Rising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dublin_lock-out" title="Dublin lock-out">Dublin lock-out</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Government_of_Ireland_Act_1914" title="Government of Ireland Act 1914">Home Rule crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Easter_Rising" title="Easter Rising">Easter Rising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irish_War_of_Independence" title="Irish War of Independence">War of Independence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Irish_Treaty" title="Anglo-Irish Treaty">Anglo-Irish Treaty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irish_Civil_War" title="Irish Civil War">Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Emergency_(Ireland)" title="The Emergency (Ireland)">The Emergency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_campaign_(Irish_Republican_Army)" title="Northern campaign (Irish Republican Army)">IRA Northern Campaign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Border_campaign_(Irish_Republican_Army)" title="Border campaign (Irish Republican Army)">IRA Border Campaign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Troubles" title="The Troubles">The Troubles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_peace_process" title="Northern Ireland peace process">Peace process</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="Economy of the Republic of Ireland">Economy of the Republic of Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celtic_Tiger" title="Celtic Tiger">Celtic Tiger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Post-2008_Irish_economic_downturn" title="Post-2008 Irish economic downturn">Post-2008 Irish economic downturn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Post-2008_Irish_banking_crisis" title="Post-2008 Irish banking crisis">Post-2008 Irish banking crisis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.25em">Other topics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Ireland" title="List of conflicts in Ireland">List of conflicts in Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_ancient_Celtic_peoples_and_tribes#Goidels_/_Gaels_/_Hibernians" title="List of ancient Celtic peoples and tribes">List of Irish tribes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Irish_kingdoms" title="List of Irish kingdoms">List of Irish kingdoms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_High_Kings_of_Ireland" title="List of High Kings of Ireland">List of High Kings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaelic_Ireland#Dress" title="Gaelic Ireland">Gaelic clothing and fashion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="List of World Heritage Sites in the Republic of Ireland">List of World Heritage Sites in the Republic of Ireland</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Geography" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Ireland" title="Geography of Ireland">Geography</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.25em">Natural</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Climate_of_Ireland" title="Climate of Ireland">Climate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Climate_change_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="Climate change in the Republic of Ireland">Climate change</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coastal_landforms_of_Ireland" title="Coastal landforms of Ireland">Coastline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Extreme_points_of_Ireland" title="Extreme points of Ireland">Extreme points</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fauna_of_Ireland" title="Fauna of Ireland">Fauna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Ireland" title="List of islands of Ireland">Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_loughs_of_Ireland" title="List of loughs of Ireland">Loughs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_mountains_in_Ireland" title="Lists of mountains in Ireland">Mountains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rivers_of_Ireland" title="Rivers of Ireland">Rivers</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_rivers_of_Ireland" title="List of rivers of Ireland">list</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_national_parks_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="List of national parks of the Republic of Ireland">List of national parks of the Republic of Ireland</a> / <a href="/wiki/National_parks_of_the_United_Kingdom#National_parks_in_Northern_Ireland" title="National parks of the United Kingdom">in Northern Ireland</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.25em">Human</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Architecture_of_Ireland" title="Architecture of Ireland">Architecture</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_buildings_in_Ireland" title="List of buildings in Ireland">Notable buildings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_tallest_structures_in_Ireland" title="List of tallest structures in Ireland">Tallest buildings and structures</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_status_in_Ireland" title="City status in Ireland">Cities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Ireland" title="Counties of Ireland">Counties</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="Demographics of the Republic of Ireland">Demographics of the Republic of Ireland</a> / <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Northern_Ireland" title="Demographics of Northern Ireland">of Northern Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_ports_in_Ireland" title="List of ports in Ireland">Ports</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Ireland" title="Provinces of Ireland">Provinces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland%E2%80%93United_Kingdom_border" title="Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border">ROI–UK border</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_towns_in_Ireland" title="Lists of towns in Ireland">Towns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tourism_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="Tourism in the Republic of Ireland">Tourism in the Republic of Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_tourist_attractions_in_Ireland" title="List of tourist attractions in Ireland">Tourist attractions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transport_in_Ireland" title="Transport in Ireland">Transport</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Politics" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="Politics of the Republic of Ireland">Politics</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.25em">Ideologies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Irish_nationalism" title="Irish nationalism">Nationalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irish_republicanism" title="Irish republicanism">Republicanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulster_loyalism" title="Ulster loyalism">Ulster loyalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unionism_in_Ireland" title="Unionism in Ireland">Unionism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.25em"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="Politics of the Republic of Ireland">Republic of Ireland</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Ireland" title="Constitution of Ireland">Constitution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="Economy of the Republic of Ireland">Economy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Education_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="Education in the Republic of Ireland">Education</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Ireland" title="Foreign relations of Ireland">Foreign relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Government_of_Ireland" title="Government of Ireland">Government</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="Local government in the Republic of Ireland">local</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Law_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="Law of the Republic of Ireland">Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in the Republic of Ireland">LGBT rights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oireachtas" title="Oireachtas"><i>Oireachtas</i> <span style="font-size:85%;">parliament</span></a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/D%C3%A1il_%C3%89ireann" title="Dáil Éireann"><i>Dáil Éireann</i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(lower house)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seanad_%C3%89ireann" title="Seanad Éireann"><i>Seanad Éireann</i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(upper house)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/President_of_Ireland" title="President of Ireland">President</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taxation_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="Taxation in the Republic of Ireland">Taxation</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.25em"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Northern_Ireland" title="Politics of Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Assembly" title="Northern Ireland Assembly">Assembly</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/D%27Hondt_method" title="D'Hondt method">D'Hondt method</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Northern_Ireland" title="Economy of Northern Ireland">Economy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Education_in_Northern_Ireland" title="Education in Northern Ireland">Education</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Executive" title="Northern Ireland Executive">Government</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Northern_Ireland" title="Local government in Northern Ireland">local</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Northern_Ireland" title="LGBT rights in Northern Ireland">LGBT rights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_peace_process" title="Northern Ireland peace process">Peace process</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Culture" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Ireland" title="Culture of Ireland">Culture</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.25em"><a href="/wiki/Irish_cuisine" title="Irish cuisine">Cuisine</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Food</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Irish_dishes" title="List of Irish dishes">List of dishes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barmbrack" title="Barmbrack">Barmbrack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bacon_and_cabbage" title="Bacon and cabbage">Bacon and cabbage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boxty" title="Boxty">Boxty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Champ_(food)" title="Champ (food)">Champ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coddle" title="Coddle">Coddle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colcannon" title="Colcannon">Colcannon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drisheen" title="Drisheen">Drisheen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Full_breakfast#Ireland" title="Full breakfast">Irish fry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skirts_and_kidneys" title="Skirts and kidneys">Skirts and kidneys</a></li> <li><a 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