Deirdre
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Deirdre is a tragic heroine in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. She is also known by the epithet "Deirdre of the Sorrows".
A painting of Deirdre in A book of myths (1915), by Helen Stratton
Deirdre's Lament, drawing by J. H. Bacon, c. 1905
Medb
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Medb, later spelled Meadhbh, Méabh and Méibh, and often anglicised as Maeve, is queen of Connacht in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Her husband in the core stories of the cycle is Ailill mac Mát
Queen Maev by J. C. Leyendecker
Queen Meave and the Druid by Stephen Reid, from Eleanor Hull's The Boys' Cuchulainn (1904)
Miosgán Médhbh (Medb's cairn) at Knocknarea