Mac na Míchomhairle [crua] (secondhand)

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“Hardback, with a slightly worn dustjacket.

A variety of late romantic Irish literature. Sometimes seen as a kind of precursor to native novel-writing. The author drew on many sources in writing it: traditional literature – especially the Fenian Cycle, and poetry and prose from his time, and the oral tradition that he spread throughout his works. An increase came in the amount of literature of that type at the border of south Ulster from the end of the 17th century, and it’s from the writers of that area that we got the story in this book for the first time.The text of Mac an Míchomhairle is given here, along with an account of it, its literary background and its place in the tradition of manuscripts and in oral tradition. “