Hollow Hills: The Gods, Heroes and Otherworld of Irish Myth

Most books about Irish myth are either too dry to enjoy or too eager to believe. This one refuses both. The Morrígan washing the armour of men about to die. Cú Chulainn lashed upright to a standing stone so he could meet death on his feet. A whole race of gods retreating underground to become the fairy-folk. These are among the greatest stories Europe ever told — and Ireland left the earliest and ...