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Reading Irish Mythology I: Classifications

4th August 2017 Brian Antiquity

Even though Cycles are how we primarily categorise the stories of Irish Mythology, there exists no specific reference to the different cycles in the early Irish manuscripts. Instead, the manuscripts categorise stories under classifications, and these are as follows:

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