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Padraic O’Farrell.
Ancient Irish Legends.
Published Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 3rd impression (previously issued 1995).
ISBN 0717122522;
ISBN-13: 9780717122523.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printed in Malaysia.
Size: 115x213x9mm.
Page count: 96pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has some indentations and mild creasing on the covers, a bit of wear on the edges and corners; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £2.00
plus P&P £2.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price for current edn. €6.95]
Weight without packaging: 140g.

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Re-tells fourteen stories from Irish myth. Contents: Children of Lir; Conán's woolly body; Cuchullain & Ferdia; Díarmuid & Gráinne; Another side of Conán; Salmon of knowledge; Fionn & the Scottish giant; Persecution of Étain; Déirdre of the Sorrows & the sons of Uisneach; Fionn & the duaghter of the King of Greece; Origins of Irish cattle; Sons of Tuireann; Cuchullain's death; Oisín in Tír na nÓg.

Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: 11 monochrome drawings by Fiona Fewer
Maps & plans: 1
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: yes
Bibliography: no
Index: no

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