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The Raid: A Dramatic Retelling of Ireland's Epic Tale (Ulster Cycle, 1) Paperback – March 2, 2000

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Queen Maeve has declared war upon the province of Ulster in an effort to take possession of the Brown Bull of Cooley. Ultimately, this is an attempt to match the wealth of her husband, King Ailill of Connacht, who owns a magnificent white bull. Only Cuchulainn, a boy warrior, stands between Ulster and certain annihilation. Supported by the Morrigan, the goddess of war, he begins a reign of terror upon the Connacht warriors. In his heroic stand, the reader discovers the genesis of the determination of the Irish people, their will to stand alone against oppression.

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“An amazing piece of work. This version has a marvelous ring of authenticity. This is what those wild pagans were really like-before the priests got to them! It's a really magical narrative-a turn-on in every sense of the word.” ―Thomas Fleming, author of The Officers' Wives

“A tremendous achievement. You don't have to be Irish to be entranced by Eickhoff's earthy magical rendering of one of the world's most ancient epics.” ―Jeanne Williams, Spur Award-winning author of Home Again

About the Author

Randy Lee Eickhoff holds several graduate degrees, including a Ph.D. in Classics. He lives in El Paso, Texas where he works on novels, plays, poetry and translations in several languages. His translation of Ireland's national epic, the Ulster Cycle, is now a text used in schools in the United States and overseas. His novel And Not to Yield, based on the life of Wild Bill Hickok, was selected as the Best Novel of 2004 by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage. His nonfiction work on the Tigua Indians, Exiled, won the Southwest Book Award. He is also the author of Return to Ithaca, Then Came Christmas and The Quick and the Dead. He has been inducted into the Paso Del Norte Writers Hall of Fame, the local chapter of the Texas Institute of Arts and Letters. Eickhoff served with distinction in the early phases of the Vietnam War, and was awarded the Purple Heart, Silver Star and Bronze Star. He spends his time in El Paso, Ireland, and Italy, lecturing on Dante and The Ulster Cycle.

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Publisher : Forge Books; 1st edition (March 2, 2000)
Language : English
Paperback : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 0312851928
ISBN-13 : 978-0312851927
Item Weight : 12 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.64 x 8.5 inches

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Uailo Bodua

I very much enjoyed this book

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2016

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I very much enjoyed this book. The title announces that this is a dramatic retelling, so why there are reviewers complaining about the dramatics is a mystery to me. I thunjthe author did a great job inserting dialogue where we would otherwise have to use our own imagination. And if you have ever read anything from the Ulster or Mythological cycles for example, you would know that the Irish/Celts were very crude indeed. Sure it's a bit vulgar in spits and hilarious in my opinion. Its very entertaining way to learn a but about the history of this beautiful land. You can always supplement with more academics afterwards but thus book is plain fun . Why deny yourself?

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Irish Legends

Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2021

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I now have the whole set. Wonderful book. Unfortunately it came with a damaged front cover

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Andy Hill

Celtic myth

Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2019

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After dna testing showing Cetic ancestry, I chose to read this book. I usually read non-fiction adventure, but I LOVE THIS BOOK! A glorious and honorable time of myth based on the songs and poems passed down through time, I hope someone can turn these stories into a really good adult mini-series someday!

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Pleasurable and Insightful

Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2014

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I struggled between the 'reader' and 'scholar' in me. As a scholar, for certain I would give it 3 stars because of the liberties this text takes with the transcriptions--the author does, however, note in the beginning of the text the difficulties encountering with the translation of this text because of the various recensions and fragments available to the modern writer. As a 'reader' for pleasure I would give it 4 stars because it entertains and introduces the basics of one of Ireland's national tales of the cattle raid on Ulster. The 'best' way to read the 'real' tale is to read Eickhoff's books alongside of Kinsella's translation of The Táin.

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J. Rose

I'd like to read something between this kind of treatment and

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2014

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This account is a little too academic to appeal to a wide audience. Some of the repetition that was part of the old story-telling format could have been left out. Certainly the characters could have been less two-dimensional. I'd like to read something between this kind of treatment and, say, a Morgan Llywelyn style novel-esque treatment.

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Paul

Crude and not in a funny way

Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2015

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Get an editor to take out all the stupid, preferably one who has graduated kindergarten. Besides the constant fart 'jokes' and endless breast appreciation, the writing is terrible. It's like an awful aspiring novelist realizing they clearly couldn't write their own stuff and so decided to rip off Lady Gregory, practically wholesale, with a few vile additions. Go to the original, Lady Gregory is just as modern a read and much more beautiful.

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Erik Peterson

The Raid

Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2013

You could do worse than read this modernized version of The Cattle Raid of Cooley, if you are at all interested in the fantastical adventure tales told by our pre-Christian European ancestors.

The Raid is a very different sort of story from the Illiad, the Aenead, or the Odyssey, but it is easily as entertaining. Many of the characters are brought vividly to life in this worthy retelling.

As an added benefit, especially if you or some of your relatives are Irish, it may help you understand some behavioral characteristics you may have observed, or even acted out yourself.

It is said of the hero, `the Hound of Culann' (Cuchulainn), that you could tell when the bloody spirit of the battle goddess (The Morrigan) descended upon him:

`The warp-spasm, terrible to behold, came upon him. Each hair seemed hammered down like spikes into his head, the end of each tipped with a fire-spark that burned like brimstone. One eye squeezed shut like the eye of a needle, while the other opened as wide as a goblet's mouth. His lips peeled back to his eyeteeth until his gullet showed, and his jaw gaped wide to his ears...'

Sound familiar? Have fun with this book!

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C. Harrison

The Cattle Raid of Cooley!

Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2007

Eickhoff's works are all very well done. This work is no exception. He has taken the Celtic epic the Tain and dissected the work, giving it a proper and detailed treatment in telling the tales of Cuchullain, the Hound of Ulster, the single most important hero in Irish myth/history. I recommend getting all these books in the Ulster Cycle in hardback form because you will want to keep these and display them, then reread them again in a few years. Excellent work.

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