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Quotation from Cuchulain of Muirthemne by Lady Gregory
“the stories which it tells are a chief part of Ireland's gift to the imagination of the world — and it tells them perfectly for the first time.”
Cuchulain of Muirthemne, Preface, first paragraph (1907 John Murray edition (Internet Archive scan))
Yeats opens his preface by calling the book the best to come out of Ireland in his time.
Citation: "the stories which it tells are a chief part of Ireland's gift to the imagination of the world — and it tells them perfectly for the first time." — Lady Gregory, Cuchulain of Muirthemne, Preface, first paragraph (1907 John Murray edition (Internet Archive scan)). (id cuchulain-of-muirthemne-q2)
Portrait: Cuchulainn's death, illustration by Stephen Reid 1904, Stephen Reid, Public domain.
