Beginning from the cromlechs and burial mounds that dot every country of Europe, O’Grady argues that Ireland alone preserved, in the songs of her bards, a memory of the heroes those monuments commemorate. He surveys the heroic literature, its demi-gods and warriors, its moral tone and the dialogues in which Ossian disputes with St. Patrick.
A short, passionate essay by the writer whose retellings helped spark the Irish Literary Revival. Download the free EPUB.