# The Coming of Cuculain

Author: O'Grady, Standish, 1846-1928

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5092

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Coming+of+Cuculain+O%27Grady&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The Red Branch feasted one night in their great hall at Emain Macha. So vast was the hall that a man, such as men are now, standing in the centre and shouting his loudest, would not be heard at the circumference, yet the low laughter of the King sitting at one end was clearly audible to those who sat around the Champion at the other. The sons of Dithorba made it, giants of the elder time, labouring there under the brazen shoutings of Macha and the roar of her sounding thongs. Its length was a mile and nine furlongs and a cubit. With her brooch pin she ploughed its outline upon the plain, and its breadth was not much less. Trees such as the earth nourished then upheld the massy roof beneat...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coming-of-cuculain-5092/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coming-of-cuculain-5092/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coming-of-cuculain-5092/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coming-of-cuculain-5092/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coming-of-cuculain-5092/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coming-of-cuculain-5092/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coming-of-cuculain-5092/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coming-of-cuculain-5092/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coming-of-cuculain-5092/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coming-of-cuculain-5092/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coming-of-cuculain-5092/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coming-of-cuculain-5092/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coming-of-cuculain-5092/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coming-of-cuculain-5092/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coming-of-cuculain-5092/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coming-of-cuculain-5092/chapters/6/index.md)