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
Ulster Cycle
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The Ulster Cycle, formerly known as the Red Branch Cycle, is a body of medieval Irish heroic legends and sagas of the Ulaid. It is set far in the past, in what is now eastern Ulster and northern Leins
Deirdre
…Deirdre ( DEER-drə, -dree, Irish: ; Old Irish: Derdriu ) is a tragic heroine in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. She is also known by the epithet "Deirdre of the Sorrows" (Irish: Deirdre an Bhróin). Deirdre is a prominent figure in Irish legend…
"Cuchulain in Battle", illustration by J. C. Leyendecker in T. W. Rolleston's Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race, 1911