Transactions of the Ossianic Society, Volume 3Printed under the direction of the Council, 1857 - Ireland Volumes 1-6 include the 1st-8th annual report of the society. |
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Page 67 - ... this wood until Fionn and the Fenians of Erin overtake us :" and fear and great dread seized Grainne when she heard that. 1 8. As for Fionn, I will tell [his] tidings clearly. He departed not from the tracking until he reached Doire dha bhoth, and he sent the tribe of Eamhuin^ in to search out the wood, and they saw Diarmuid and a woman by him. They returned back again where were Fionn and the Fenians of Erin, and Fionn asked of them whether Diarmuid or Grainne were in the wood. "Diarmuid is...
Page 113 - Fhionnchaidh,los so that each woman of them said that her own man was a better hurler than the other ; and the fruit of that dispute was that a great goaling match was set in order between the Tuatha De Danann and the Fenians of Erin, and the place where that goal was played was upon a fair plain by Loch Lein Limifhiachlach. 53. " The Fenians of Erin and the Tuatha Da Danann answered that tryste...