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Ulster cycle

LC control no.n 95112440
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Uniform title headingUlster cycle
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Variant(s)Ulaid cycle
See alsoContainer of (work): Tochmarc Emire
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Container of (work): Táin bó Cúailnge
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Container of (work): Serglige Con Culainn
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Container of (work): Compert Con Culainn
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Container of (work): Aided Con Culainn
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Container of (work): Fled Bricrenn
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Container of (work): Fled Bricrenn ocus Loinges mac nDuíl Dermait
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Container of (work): Bruiden Da Choca
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Container of (work): Longes mac n-Uislenn
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Container of (work): Sgéal Chúchulainn ag Cuan Cárn
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Form of workEpic literature
Special noteApplies to editions of the collection. Individual works that make up the collection are entered under their own headings
Found inThe Ulster cycle, 1976: page 77 (tells about Ulster's great hero, Cuchulainn and the cattle raid into Ulster started by Queen Maeve of Connaught)
Two death tales from the Ulster cycle, 1981: page 20 (written in Old Irish)
Encyc. Brit., Micropaedia, c1984 (Ulster (Ulaid) cycle; in ancient Irish Gaelic literature, a group of legends and tales dealing with the heroic age of the Ulaids, a people of NE Ireland from whom the modern Ulster derives; stories were recorded from oral tradition between 8th and 11th centuries; are preserved in three manuscripts from the 12th and 14th centuries)
Marriage, law and Tochmarc Emire, 2013: page 4 (Tochmarc Emire is one of the longer narratives of the Ulster cycle)
Wikipedia, 4 June 2020 : (Táin Bó Cúailnge "the driving-off of cows of Cooley", commonly known as The Cattle Raid of Cooley or The Táin, is an epic from early Irish literature and is the central text of a group of tales known as the Ulster Cycle)
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A1in_B%C3%B3_C%C3%BAailnge>
Wikipedia, 4 June 2020 : (Serglige Con Culainn (English: The Sick-Bed of Cú Chulainn or The Wasting Sickness of Cúchulainn), also known as Oenét Emire (English: The Only Jealousy of Emer) is a narrative from the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology)
Wikipedia, 4 June 2020 : (Compert Con Culainn (English: The Conception of Cú Chulainn) is an early medieval Irish narrative about the conception and birth of the hero Cú Chulainn. Part of the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, it survives in two major versions)
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compert_Con_Culainn>
Website viewed, 4 June 2020 : (Bruiden Da Choca, 'Da Coca's hostel', a tale of the Ulster Cycle, set after the death of Conchobar. Known also as Togail Bruidne Da Choca(e), 'Th)e destruction of Da Coca's hostel')
   <https://www.vanhamel.nl/codecs/Bruiden_Da_Choca>
Website viewed, 4 June 2020 : (Longes mac n-Uislenn: The exile of the sons of Uisliu, remscéla to Táin bó Cúailnge)
   <https://www.vanhamel.nl/codecs/Longes_mac_nUislenn>
Website viewed, 4 June 2020 : (Fled Bricrenn & Loinges mac nDuíl Dermait. Ulster cycle, Late Old Irish)
   <https://www.vanhamel.nl/codecs/Fled_Bricrenn_ocus_Loinges_mac_nDu%C3%ADl_Dermait>
Wikipedia, 4 June 2020 : (Fled Bricrenn (Old Irish "Bricriu's Feast") is a story from the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology)
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fled_Bricrenn>