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
Leabharcham
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Leabharcham was charged by the Ulster king Conchobar mac Nessa with nursing Deirdre in seclusion until the girl was old enough to be his bride, after it was prophesied at Deirdre's birth: "The infant
Deirdre with her nurse, Leabharcham
