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    Old Friends: The Lost Tales of Fionn Mac Cumhaill
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    Old Friends: The Lost Tales of Fionn Mac Cumhaill
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    Old Friends: The Lost Tales of Fionn Mac Cumhaill

    By Tom O'Neill

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    Irish folklore is alive and well, as Arthur "Dark" McLean finds when he's wrenched from his city life and Playstation into a fairy fort and a world of legends

    Uprooted from city life by the death of his father, Arthur "Dark" McLean is beckoned into a rath—a circular settlement built during the Middle Ages—as he wanders the fields near his new home. There, he meets people big and small whose magnificent stories of warriors, monsters, and the fairy people provide an escape from his crumbling school and home life and take him deep into the world of Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the Fianna. O'Neill's powerful new tales of adventure, heroism, treachery, weakness, and redemption entwine with ancient Irish folklore as Dark realizes that he, like his eccentric uncle Connie, belongs to two very different worlds. Includes a map and glossary.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLittle Island Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2010
    ISBN9781908195081
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    Old Friends: The Lost Tales of Fionn Mac Cumhaill
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    Tom O'Neill

    Tom O’Neill is one of a very close knit family of eleven brought up on a farm in County Carlow. His working life started in science teacher training in impoverished schools in South Africa and he is currently involved in computer based education as well as running a farm in Kilkenny. Restoring the ancient Killahara castle in Tipperary and helping his father publish a social history reconnected him to stories and beliefs that were still vibrant in his own childhood and prompted him to pull together the Fionn Mac Cumhaill tales he had made up to entertain his own children en route to school.

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