Donn Cuailnge
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In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology Donn Cúailnge, the Brown Bull of Cooley, was an extremely fertile stud bull over whom the Táin Bó Cúailnge was fought.
Donn Cuailnge
Táin Bó Cúailnge
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Táin Bó Cúailnge, commonly known as The Táin or less commonly as The Cattle Raid of Cooley, is an epic from Irish mythology. It is often called "the Irish Iliad", although like most other early Irish
Donn Cuailnge
…In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology Donn Cúailnge, the Brown Bull of Cooley, was an extremely fertile stud bull over whom the Táin Bó Cúailnge (Cattle Raid of Cooley) was fought. A ninth century rémscéla or foretale recounts how the tale came to be. In the 6th century, the poet Senchán Torpéist…
Cú Chulainn in battle, from T. W. Rolleston, Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race, 1911; illustration by J. C. Leyendecker
Events from the Táin in a mosaic mural in Dublin by Desmond Kinney
Finnbhennach (left) and Donn Cuailnge (right)