The Boys' Cuchulain

This book contain collection of 30 Short Stories:

How Conor Became King of Ulster
Queen Meave and the Woman-Seer
The Boy Corps of King Conor
How Cuchulain Got His Name
How Cuchulain Took Arms
Of Cuchulain's First Feats of Championship
Cuchulain's Adventures in Shadow-Land
How Cuchulain Wooed His Wife
Meave Demands the Brown Bull of Cooley
The Plucking Out of the Four-Pronged Pole
The Deer of Ill-Luck
Etarcomal's Well-Deserved Ftae
The Fight with Spits of Holly-Wood
The Combat with Ferdia
The Fall of Ferdia
Ulster, Awake!
The End of the Boy-Corps
The "Rising Out of Ulster"
The Humbling of Queen Meave
The Fairy Swan-Maidens
How Cuchulain Went to Fairy Land
Deirdre of Contentions
The Up-Bringing of Deirdre
The Sleep-Wanderer
The Wiles of King Conor
The Sorrowful Death of Usna's Sons
The Fight of Cuchulain with His Son Conla
The Hound at Bay
Fame Outlives Life
The Red Rout



About the Author:


Eleanor Henrietta Hull (1860-1935) was born in England, of a County Down family. She was educated at Alexandra College, Dublin and was a student of Irish Studies. She was a journalist and scholar of Old Irish and in 1899 was co-founder of the Irish Texts Society for the publication of early manuscripts. She was honorary secretary for nearly thirty years.


She wrote the English versification (known as the hymn "Be Thou My Vision”) for the Irish hymn "Bí Thusa 'mo Shúile" in 1912. She was president of the Irish Literary Society. She died in Wimbledon, England in 1935.