10 Celtic Irish Legends of Gods and Heroes

You know the names, Cú Chulainn, Finn, the Children of Lir, but every time you try to read the legends you hit a wall of unpronounceable genealogies and give up before the first sword is drawn.

Press play and the wall is gone. Each chapter is one full tale told in scene, with dialogue, tempers and stakes, from Lugh facing Balor on the plain of Moytura to Deirdre choosing love over a king and Oisín riding home from the Land of Youth to find three hundred years gone. Every character is introduced again the moment they appear, so you can start with any story and follow it cold. Tragedy sits beside comedy, war beside wonder, and the telling shows what these tales meant to the Irish who kept them alive and why they still bite today.

By the last chapter these gods and heroes will feel like people you have met. Choose a legend and let it start.