Classic Celtic Tales: The Hunt for Diarmaid and Grainne.
Author: Mac UISTIN, Liam (Illustrated by Laura Cronin).
Dublin: O’Brien Press, 2000 (reprint). 79 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.
From the treasury of ancient Celtic myth comes a wild tale of love and adventure….
Grainne is to marry the ageing warrior lord of the Fianna, Fionn Mac Cumhaill. But at their marriage feast she falls in love with another member of the Fianna, a handsome young man called Diarmaid O Duibhne. Together they run away to the West. When Fionn finds the pair have gone, he is mad with rage and swears he will hunt them down. A magical chase begins which leads Diarmaid and Grainne into many dangers….
ISBN: 0862784808
The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Grainne is inluded in the stories from In the Celtic Past by Ethna Carbery which is available to read online.