Irish Legends & Myths

I'm curious. I like reading about legends and myths. I saw the post about superstitions and prophecies but not one about legends. Does anyone know some neat myths or legends from Ireland. I once found a book at barnes and nobles about legends and briefly flipped through it, but I dont remember any of them. I was there to buy a book for a class I was taking so didnt have the money for th Irish legends..

Please pull take a stool, buy us a few pints (so we believe your story) and tell us your favorite myth or legend.

Ok, I just found a string on page three (at this time) about irish legends, however all the post I saw were about what is in Irish legends instead of the tale itself.

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Definately check out one of my favorite lengends...Tristan and Isolde (Iseult). There is a book written that translated the old tale called The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bieder and a Trilogy of books by Rosalind Miles. Book one is called Isolde two is...Maiden of the white hands I believe. And I forget what the third is called, but I don't think it came out yet.

I started this thread many months ago http://www.celticradio.net/php/forums/inde...?showtopic=1950, check it out and click on the provided URL to read the book on line. Some fun stories.

THANKS, I will have to check out both of these sites.

It's on my list of things to read...but MacPherson's Ossian would be a great start. Although he adapts things to make it take place in Scotland, they are the stories of Finn McCuil and Cuchulainn; Irish heroes who show up all the time in the ancient Irish Poetry.

Tain Bo Cuailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley) is probably one of the most famous poems of ancient Ireland.


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I don't remeber too many of them, but one of my particular favorites was the short story about the three children who were turned into swans. I haven't read it in a while but I liked it. You can find that story in most folk tale books.