O’Grady retells the youth of Setanta, the boy who will become Cuculain, in the heroic world of the Red Branch knights of Ulster. The child runs away to join the boys of the Ultonians, wins his place among them, and at the smith Culain’s supper party earns the name he will carry into legend.
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