Legend

Gods and Fighting Men

by Lady Gregory

Lady Gregory’s retelling, from 1904, of the stories of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the old gods of Ireland, and of Finn mac Cumhaill and the Fianna. She wrote it in the English of Kiltartan, the Galway countryside around her house at Coole, with the rhythm of Irish running under it. W. B. Yeats wrote the preface.

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Reading time

About 11 hr 30 min

Where to find it

On the Legend shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #14465. In the public domain in the United States.