Texts in Translation
Most of the important Ulster Cycle tales can be found in the following publications:
- Thomas Kinsella, The Táin, Oxford University Press, 1969
- Stephen Dunford, Táin Bó Flidhais or The Mayo Táin, Enniscrone, 2008
- Jeffrey Gantz, Early Irish Myths and Sagas, Penguin, 1981
- Tom Peete Cross & Clark Harris Slover, Ancient Irish Tales, Henry Holt & Company, 1936 (reprinted by Barnes & Noble, 1996)
- John T Koch & John Carey, The Celtic Heroic Age, Celtic Studies Publications, 2000
- Kuno Meyer, The Death-Tales of the Ulster Heroes, Todd Lecture Series, 1906
- A H Leahy, Heroic Romances of Ireland, 2 vols, 1905-1906 (Online at Sacred Texts)
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