‘I will spout a jet of blood in your face’: Women’s words in the Tain Bo Cualinge, its pre-tales and the Fingal Ronan

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  • Claire Harrill University of York

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Irish Literature, Tain Bo Cualinge, Pre-modern, Gender Studies, Fingal Ronan, Ulster Cycle

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Primary Texts

Cross, T.P and Slover, C.H. eds. Ancient Irish Tales. Dublin, Allen Figgis, 1969.

Kinsella, Thomas The Tain. Oxford, 2002.

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‘I will spout a jet of blood in your face’: Women’s words in the Tain Bo Cualinge, its pre-tales and the Fingal Ronan. (2013). Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English, 27. https://postgradenglishjournal.awh.durham.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/pgenglish/article/view/109