The Imperishable Celtic Epic: An Tain - Cuchulain’s Saga.
Author: NEESON, Eoin.
Publisher: Dublin: Prestige Books, 2004. x, 307 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.
Here for the first time ever Ireland’s immortal literary Epic is fully fleshed out in a complete, resounding narrative for the modern reader by a master story-teller and doyen of his subject.
Eoin Neeson, probably the best equipped author to have undertaken this huge work, has given us a powerful and dynamic novel alive and redolent of the atmosphere and people of early Celtic Ireland.
Thanks to sedulous research and a lifetime’s command of his subject, his AN TAIN leaps from the page in graphic and modern prose to enthral readers as it unquestionably enthralled audiences a thousand years and more ago.
Nothing like it has ever been attempted or published before — the full and complete story of the mighty Epic now become a superb historical novel taking its rightful place in the world of books, to be read and enjoyed by every discerning reader.
AN TAIN is illustrated by the author and there is an Introduction outlining some of the difficulties encountered and an Addendum describing aspects of life in the iron-age Ireland in which the Epic is set.
ISBN: 0953378861