Old friends : the lost tales of Fionn Mac Cumhaill
O'Neill, Tom2010
Books
Main title:
Old friends : the lost tales of Fionn Mac Cumhaill / Tom O'Neill.
Author:
Imprint:
Dublin : Little Island, 2010.
Collation:
436p. ; 20cm.
Notes:
Pronuncation guide p.432-6."Uprooted from city life by the death of his father, Dark is beckoned into a rath as he wanders the fields near his new home. There, he meets people big and small whose magnificent stories of warriors, monsters and the fairy people provide an escape from his crumbling school and home life and take him deep into the world of Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the Fianna."
Contents:
A place best left alone -- Calling the Banshee -- Arthur's ghost -- Weapons Woman and the Wolf Beo -- Helping hands -- Old friends -- The wolf -- Courting Fionn -- Goose fodder -- Fathach Island -- Mitching by the Brown River -- The luck of the Lúdramán -- No better than each other -- Bad and worse -- Minding Niamh -- Prize daughters -- Saving the wren -- The greatest battle that never was -- Losing control -- The festering Bronloider -- An ill wind -- The winter of the Black Wind -- A new hound -- Fiachra loses his fight -- Wishing to be away -- The hardy Sangster -- Doorways broken open -- Beatha's sacrifice -- Everything slipping away -- The bear who would be king -- Minding the secrets -- glossary -- list of place names and personal names.
ISBN:
1848409419 (pbk)9781848409415
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1386494