Giant

Cucullin

The giant who flattened a thunderbolt, in Carleton’s tale.

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His strength lay in the middle finger of his right hand. Carleton borrowed the name of the Ulster hero Cú Chulainn for him, but the two have nothing else in common. “Some say he was Irish, and some say he was Scotch.”

Kin and bonds

At odds with Fionn mac Cumhaill
At odds with Oonagh

In the tales

Fionn and the Giant’s Causeway The strongest giant in Ireland is coming for Fionn. Fionn’s wife has a plan, a cradle and twenty-one iron griddles.

Sources

Folk tale in print. An oral tale set down by a nineteenth-century writer, with his own flourishes.

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