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    The Return of Cuchulain (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
    The Return of Cuchulain (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
    The Return of Cuchulain (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
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    The Return of Cuchulain (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

    By Eimar O'Duffy

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    Many of the earliest Irish ghost stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9781473355484
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      The Return of Cuchulain (Fantasy and Horror Classics) - Eimar O'Duffy

      Cuchulain

      EIMAR O'DUFFY

      Eimar O'Duffy was born in Dublin in 1893. He was educated at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, and University College, Dublin, where he became interested in Irish cultural and political nationalism. He began publishing in his twenties, producing his first novel, The Wasted Island, in 1919. This early work, which examined critically the origins of the 1916 Easter Uprising in Ireland, exhibited the sharp satirical style – and scepticism towards the political direction of his native country – for which he was to become known.

      Much like other Irish writers such as James Joyce and Brinsley McNamara, O'Duffy's expression of his disillusionment with Ireland gained him as many detractors as it did fans. In 1925, having lost his job at Department of External Affairs in Dublin as a result of his outspoken views, he emigrated to England. Here, between 1926 and 1933, he produced his Cuandine trilogy, the works for which he is best remembered. A scathing, Swiftian denouncement of the ills of global capitalism and debt culture (O'Duffy was also an astute economist), the trilogy – made up of King Goshawk and the Birds (1926), The Spacious Adventures of the Man in the Street (1928), and Asses in Clover (1933) – is now seen as near-prophetic by some critics, and remains an acclaimed work of satire.

      Towards the end of his life, O'Duffy turned his hand to writing detective stories, with mixed success. He also displayed some talent as a literary critic, and was one of the first people to recognize James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) as a masterpiece. He died of duodenal ulcers in 1935, at the age of 42.

      THE RETURN OF CUCHULAIN

      The Philosopher came upon the spirits of the heroes walking in the meadows of asphodel in Tir na nOg. They were not like the spirit of Socrates, which resembled a still flame; but they had the forms of men, glorious and ethereal. A hero is a person of superabundant vitality and predominant will, with no sense of responsibility or humour, which makes him a nuisance on earth; but he is in his element in the third heaven. There the heroes take themselves and one another at their own valuation, regarding their weaknesses as strength, their defects as merits. Their life is in their fame:

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