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Sacred-Texts Legends and Sagas Celtic Folklore The Cattle-Raid of Cooley (Táin Bó Cúalnge) from "The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge" (1914) by Joseph Dunn, London: David Nutt. The Cattle-Raid of Cooley (Táin Bó Cúalnge) is the central epic of the Ulster cycle. Queen Medb of Connaught gathers an army in order to gain possession of the most famous bull in Ireland, which is the property of Daire, a chieftain of Ulster. Because the men of Ulster are afflicted by a debilitating curse, the seventeen-year-old Cuchulain must defend Ulster single-handedly. 1. Here Beginneth The Cualnge Cattle-raid 5,152 bytes 2. The Occaision of the Táin 8,500 bytes 3. The Rising-Out of the Men of Connacht at Cruachan Ai 3,802 bytes 4. The Foretelling 7,906 bytes 5. This is the Route of the Táin 2,597 bytes 6. The March Of The Host 37,902 bytes 7. The Youthful Exploits Of Cuchulain 7,995 bytes 7a. The Slaying Of The Smith's Hound By Cuchulain, And The Reason He Is Called Cuchulain 8,736 bytes 7b. (The Taking Of Arms By Cuchulain And) The Slaying Of The Three Sons Of Necht Scenè Is Now Told Here 27,455 bytes 8. The Slaying Of Orlam 2,767 bytes 8a. The Slaying Of The Three Macarach 1,290 bytes 8b. The Combat Of Lethan And Cuchulain 1,565 bytes 8c. The Killing of The Squirrel And of The Tame Bird 5,672 bytes 8d. The Slaying Of Lochè 948 bytes 8e. The Killing Of Uala 3,682 bytes 8f. The Harrying Of Cualnge Followeth Here Below 6,962 bytes 9. The Proposals 14,585 bytes 10. The Violent Death Of Etarcumul 11,822 bytes 11. The Slaying Of Nathcrantail 5,151 bytes 12. The Finding of The Bull 4,030 bytes 12a. The Death Of Forgemen 863 bytes 12b. Here Is Narrated The Slaying of Redg The Satirist 3,038 bytes 12c. Here Is Told The Meeting of Cuchulain And Finnabair 3,233 bytes 12d. Here The Combat of Munremar and Curoi 2,007 bytes 12e. The Slaughter of The Boy-Troop 2,358 bytes 12f. The Slaughter of The King's Bodyguard 998 bytes 13. The Combat Of Cûr With Cuchulain 4,427 bytes 14. The Slaying Of Ferbaeth ('The Witless') 4,425 bytes 14a. The Combat Of Larinè MacNois 5,299 bytes 15. The Slaying of Loch Son of Mofemis 8,770 bytes 16. The Violation of the Agreement 1,139 bytes 16a. The Healing Of The Morrigan 2,203 bytes 17. The Great Rout on The Plain of Murthemne 4,360 bytes 17a. The Slaughter of The Youths of Ulster 4,320 bytes 17b. The Scythed Chariot 11,839 bytes 17c. The Account Of The Appearance Of Cuchulain 3,468 bytes 17d. Dubthach's Jealousy 3,515 bytes 18. The Slaying Of Oengus Son Of Oenlam 1,145 bytes 18a. The Misthrow At Belach Eoin. 1,488 bytes 18b. The Disguising Of Tamon 1,312 bytes 19. The Battle Of Fergus And Cuchulain 3,489 bytes 19a. Here Now Cometh The Head-Place Of Ferchu 2,223 bytes 19b. Mann's Fight 1,959 bytes 19c. The Combat of Calatin's Children 6,342 bytes 20. The Combat of Ferdiad and Cuchulain 66,795 bytes 21. Cuchulain and the Rivers 1,362 bytes 22. Cethern's Strait Fight 5,018 bytes 22a. Cethern's Bloody Wounds 14,402 bytes 23. Here Followeth the Tooth-Fight of Fintan 2,371 bytes 23a. The Red-Shame of Menn Followeth Here 1,955 bytes 23b. Here Followeth the Accoutrement of the Charioteers 812 bytes 23c. The White-Fight of Rochad Now Followeth 2,996 bytes 23d. Here Followeth Iliach's Clump-Fight 3,868 bytes 23e. Here Now The Deer-Stalking of Amargin in Taltiu 3,764 bytes 24. The Repeated Warning of Sualtaim 6,512 bytes 24a. The Order of the Men of Ulster 6,186 bytes 24b. The Agitation of Celtchar 2,792 bytes 25. Here Followeth The Array of The Host 55,377 bytes 26. The Decision of the Battle 3,719 bytes 27. Now of The Battle of Garech 4,887 bytes 27a. Here Followeth The Muster of The Men of Erin 14,308 bytes 28. The Battle of The Bulls 3,797 bytes 29. The Account of The Brown Bull of Cualnge 3,328 bytes