GODS AND FIGHTING MEN:

THE STORY OF THE TUATHA DE DANAANAND OF THE FIANNA OF IRELAND,

ARRANGED AND PUT INTO ENGLISH BY LADY GREGORY.

WITH A PREFACE BY W.B. YEATS

1905

DEDICATION TO THE MEMBERS OF THE IRISH LITERARY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK

My Friends, those I know and those I do not know, I am glad in the yearof the birth of your Society to have this book to offer you.

It has given great courage to many workers here—working to build upbroken walls—to know you have such friendly thoughts of them in yourminds. A few of you have already come to see us, and we begin to hopethat one day the steamers across the Atlantic will not go out full, butcome back full, until some of you find your real home is here, and sayas some of us say, like Finn to the woman of enchantments—

"We would not give up our own country—Ireland—if we were to get thewhole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it."AUGUSTA GREGORY.

CONTENTS

• DEDICATION
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• PART ONE: THE GODS.
• BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE TUATHA DE DANAAN.
  • CHAPTER I. THE FIGHT WITH THE FIRBOLGS
  • CHAPTER II. THE REIGN OF BRES
• BOOK TWO: LUGH OF THE LONG HAND.
  • CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF LUGH
  • CHAPTER II. THE SONS OF TUIREANN
  • CHAPTER III. THE GREAT BATTLE OF MAGH TUIREADH
  • CHAPTER IV. THE HIDDEN HOUSE OF LUGH
• BOOK THREE: THE COMING OF THE GAEL.
  • CHAPTER I. THE LANDING
  • CHAPTER II. THE BATTLE OF TAILLTIN
• BOOK FOUR: THE EVER-LIVING LIVING ONES.
  • CHAPTER I. BODB DEARG.
  • CHAPTER II. THE DAGDA
  • CHAPTER III. ANGUS OG
  • CHAPTER IV. THE MORRIGU
  • CHAPTER V. AINE
  • CHAPTER VI. AOIBHELL
  • CHAPTER VII. MIDHIR AND ETAIN
  • CHAPTER VIII. MANANNAN
  • CHAPTER IX. MANANNAN AT PLAY
  • CHAPTER X. HIS CALL TO BRAN
  • CHAPTER XI. HIS THREE CALLS TO CORMAC
  • CHAPTER XII. CLIODNA'S WAVE
  • CHAPTER XIII. HIS CALL TO CONNLA
  • CHAPTER XIV. TADG IN MANANNAN'S ISLANDS
  • CHAPTER XV. LAEGAIRE IN THE HAPPY PLAIN
• BOOK FIVE: THE FATE OF THE CHILDREN OF LIR...