"The Táin"</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content=""The Táin""> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content=""The,Táin""> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">30-10-2007</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>"The Táin"</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">London, UK (Times): That The Táin is a great read is beyond doubt — what is in question, perhaps, is the need for a new translation. The only easily available version before this was Thomas Kinsella's masterly rendering, with drawings by Louis le Brocquy, published in 1969 by Dolmen, and reissued by OUP. That, as Carson acknowledges in his generous and modest introduction, is a true classic, wonderfully vivid, perfectly judged, irreplaceable. <br>Translated by Ciaran Carson <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/fiction/article2745553.ece " target="blank">entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/fiction/article2745553.ece </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show