The Cattle-Raid of Cooley

(Tain Bo Cualnge)

From "The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge" (1914) by Joseph Dunn, London: David Nutt. 
 
The Cattle-Raid of Cooley (Tain Bo Cualnge) 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.

1.1 Here Beginneth The Cualnge Cattle-Raid
1.2. The Occasion of the Táin
1.3. The Rising-Out of the Men of Connacht at Cruachan Ai
1.4. The Foretelling
1.5. This is the Route of the Táin
1.6. The March Of The Host
1.7. The Youthful Exploits Of Cuchulain
1.7a. The Slaying Of The Smith's Hound By Cuchulain, And The Reason He Is Called Cuchulain
1.7b. (The Taking Of Arms By Cuchulain And) The Slaying Of The Three Sons Of Necht Scene Is Now Told Here
1.8. The Slaying Of Orlam
1.8a. The Slaying Of The Three Macarach
1.8b. The Combat Of Lethan And Cuchulain
1.8c. The Killing of The Squirrel And of The Tame Bird
1.8d. The Slaying Of Loche
1.8e. The Killing Of Uala
1.8f. The Harrying Of Cualnge Followeth Here Below
1.9. The Proposals
2.1. The Violent Death Of Etarcumul
2.2. The Slaying Of Nathcrantail
2.3. The Finding of The Bull
2.3a. The Death Of Forgemen
2.3b. Here Is Narrated The Slaying of Redg The Satirist
2.3c. Here Is Told The Meeting of Cuchulain And Finnabair
2.3d. Here The Combat of Munremar and Curoi
2.3e. The Slaughter of The Boy-Troop
2.3f. The Slaughter of The King's Bodyguard
2.4. The Combat Of Cur With Cuchulain
2.5. The Slaying Of Ferbaeth ('The Witless')
2.5a. The Combat Of Larine MacNois
2.6. The Slaying of Loch Son of Mofemis
2.7. The Violation of the Agreement
2.7a. The Healing Of The Morrigan
2.8. The Great Rout on The Plain of Murthemne
2.8a. The Slaughter of The Youths of Ulster
2.8b. The Scythed Chariot
2.8c. The Account Of The Appearance Of Cuchulain
2.8d. Dubthach's Jealousy
2.9. The Slaying Of Oengus Son Of Oenlam
2.9a. The Misthrow At Belach Eoin
2.9b The Disguising Of Tamon
3.0 The Battle Of Fergus And Cuchulain
3.0a. Here Now Cometh The Head-Place Of Ferchu
3.0b. Mann's Fight
3.0c. The Combat of Calatin's Children
3.1a The Combat of Ferdiad and Cuchulain
3.1b The Combat of Ferdiad and Cuchulain
3.2 Cuchulain and the Rivers
3.3 Cethern's Strait Fight
3.3a Cethern's Bloody Wounds
3.4 Here Followeth the Tooth-Fight of Fintan
3.4a The Red-Shame of Menn Followeth Here
3.4b Here Followeth the Accoutrement of the Charioteers
3.4c The White-Fight of Rochad Now Followeth
3.4d Here Followeth Iliach's Clump-Fight
3.4e Here Now The Deer-Stalking of Amargin in Taltiu
3.5 The Repeated Warning of Sualtaim
3.5a The Order of the Men of Ulster
3.5b The Agitation of Celtchar
3.6 Here Followeth The Array of The Host
3.7 The Decision of the Battle
3.8 Now of The Battle of Garech
3.8a Here Followeth The Muster of The Men of Erin
3.9 The Battle of The Bulls
4.0 The Account of The Brown Bull of Cualnge