Talk:Ulster Cycle

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I didn't notice any mention of when and by whom the Cycle was compiled...does anyone happen to know? --Solacium Christiana 16:33, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It's been a long time since this question was asked, but I thought I'd answer it anyway. It never really was, if by "compiled" you mean all the stories gathered together in an origanised way. Various stories appear more or less at random, mixed in with stories of other cycles, religious texts, poems etc, in manuscripts of various dates. The oldest surviving manuscript is Lebor na hUidre, dating from the beginning of the 12 century, and some of the stories in it are claimed to be copied from the Book of Druimm Snechta, which no longer exists but is believed to date from the beginning of the 8th century. There are poetic references to events and characters from the cycle dating to the early seventh. There were stories still being written as late as the 17th or 18th centuries, as well as linguistically older stories turning up in manuscripts of those centuries. The cycle is not entirely internally coherent - but when you consider the period of composition, it's more coherent than you might expect. --Nicknack009 (talk) 16:26, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This article is quite fine. It's so much better than the corresponding article for the Fenian Cycle. Perhaps the person responsible could turn his attention to that. I'd certainly be grateful. :) - Calgacus 01:46, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oh for crying out loud, "Ulster Cycle" is not a bicycle shop in Belfast!

So stop making those STOO-PID jokes!

69.39.172.24 18:10, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why was the information about the "Celtic Hero" program deleted from the "Adaptations" section of this article? The adaptations section includes books, poems, plays and webcomics which adapt stories from the Ulster Cycle. The "Celtic Hero" program was a modern radio adaptation of the "Wooing of Emer" story from the Ulster Cycle, as presented on National Public Radio. The adapted story is a faithful version of the tale from the Tochmarc Emire. How can this information be considered "spam"? Why was it deleted? Soundout (talk) 01:54, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I can't see any reason to delete it, much less to call it "spam", so I've put it back. The article linked to has been proposed for deletion, but so far all the comments have been to keep it, so I think someone's just got a bit overzealous. --Nicknack009 (talk) 12:01, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Does anyone know when the various stories of the Ulster Cycle were first printed? I want to add them to the list on the Editio princeps article, but I haven't been able to find any information on their early printing history. --49.177.229.185 (talk) 05:27, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Ulster Cycle category of the Selga catalogue of the CODECS Online Database for Celtic Studies might help you. Each text it catalogues, it lists manuscripts, editions, translations and secondary literature. --Nicknack009 (talk) 12:43, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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