The Red Branch Tales

Ulster Cycle (Volume 5)

Randy Lee Eickhoff

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Randy Lee Eickhoff continues his translation of the Ulster Cycle, often referred to as the Red Branch Cycle, the large corpus of work that is primarily responsible for establishing the cultural identity of today's Ireland.

In this collection of Ireland's famous myths, Eickhoff once again proves his mastery of translation and his ability to give these classic tales new life. Here he presents more than twenty stories that reveal ancient Irish culture as it's seldom been seen before.
All of the characters of Irish myth receive new life and are presented in vibrant and unique ways. In addition, by providing introductions to the tales, Eickhoff gives insight into the legends that formed the identity of a people.

In the pre-Christian era, when warriors fought from chariots, Druids provided the mystical answers to the universe, and men and women believed strongly in magic, these stories begin. Prepare to enter Randy Lee Eickhoff's Ireland.

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"Terrific verse that may remind some of Seamus Heaney's brookwater Anglo-Saxon in his recent Beowulf."-Kirkus reviews on The Destruction of the Inn
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Randy Lee Eickhoff

Randy Lee Eickhoff holds several graduate degrees, including a Ph.D. in Classics. He lives in El Paso, Texas where he works on translations in several languages, poetry, plays, and novels of which two have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His translation of Ireland's national epic is now a text in not only schools in the United States, but countries overseas as well. His nonfiction work on the Tigua Indians, Exiled, won the Southwest History Award. He has been inducted into the Paso Del Norte Writers Hall of Fame, the local chapter of the Texas Institute of Arts and Letters. He spends his time in El Paso, Ireland, and Italy, lecturing on Dante and The Ulster Cycle.

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The Red Branch Tales
Randy Lee Eickhoff

Trade Paperback

Trade Paperback
Tom Doherty Associates
Forge Books
March 2004
Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780312870188
ISBN10: 0312870183
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 400 pages
$17.95

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Hardcover
Tom Doherty Associates
Forge Books
March 2003
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780312870195
ISBN10: 0312870191
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 400 pages
$29.95

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Tom Doherty Associates
Forge Books
April 2010
e-Book Agency
ISBN: 9781429973434
ISBN10: 1429973439
400 pages
$6.99
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