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By Eithne Massey,Jacques Le Goff,Pip Sides

This attractive e-book visits twenty-eight richly atmospheric websites and tells the mythological tales linked to them.

Woven into those landscapes are stories of affection and betrayal, greed and braveness, ardour and revenge, that includes the well-known characters of Celtic lore, comparable to Cú Chulainn, the kids of Lír and Queen Maeve.

The ancient and archaeological proof and the folks traditions of every old web site are explored. a few are well-known, reminiscent of Tara and Newgrange; others are much less renowned yet both fascinating similar to the Béara Peninsula in Cork.

In a global the place many have misplaced contact with the land and their prior, the mythical Irish panorama nonetheless survives and the tales are by no means particularly over so long as there are humans to inform them.

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