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Táin Bó Cúailgne Cattle Raid

One of the major Celtic legends is the Cattle Raid of Cooley, also known as Táin Bó Cúailgne, in which Queen Medb of Connacht takes a war band to Ulster to capture the brown bull of Cuailgne.
Táin Bó Cúalnge
English translation of Joseph Dunn (1914) with the Irish transcription of Ernst Windisch (1905) of the Cattle raid story side-by-side.

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