The story is the Tain Bo Cuailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley) and it is the bedrock of Irish-language mythology. It’s a great, epic tale and it is central to Irish culture.

The ancient epic by that name is often called “Tain Bo Cuailnge” (The Cattle Raid of Cooley), and it is, as Carson explains in his introduction, “the longest and most important tale in the ...

IRELAND'S NATIONAL epic, the Táin Bó Cúailnge, has inspired writers, musicians, and artists for hundreds of years, and now two Dundalk artists have used this saga as the starting point for a ...

1. “The Tain” by the Decemberists. These Portland, Ore. indie rockers recently created an 18-minute music video for their 2004 ...

He also had a scholarly side; he translated ancient texts, including, in 1969, the Tain Bo Cuailnge, usually known in English as “The Cattle Raid of Cooley,” based on manuscripts in Old Irish ...

Herstory to launch "TÁIN: The Women's Stories" by Karina Tynan, a retelling of the famous Irish mythology tale focusing on the females involved.

The ancient epic by that name is often called Tain Bo Cuailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley) and it is, as Carson explains in his introduction, “the longest and most important tale in the Ulster ...

The legend of An Táin Bó Cuailnge is one of the great European epics and has inspired generations of writers, poets and artists. Now An Táin Arts Centre, which takes its name from the story, is ...

Researchers have used mathematics to conclude that ancient Irish epic, Táin Bó Cúailnge, may be more closely based on real-life societies than previously thought. The study takes a numerical ...

Within the West’s small but precious hoard of archaic literary epics, “The Tain” is surely the most complex and least known outside its native Ireland. Even there, it’s a wo… ...