The Raid

by Randy Lee Eickhoff

Book Overview

A dramatic retelling of Ireland's epic tale, The Raid explores wild pagan times in a magical narrative. When the Connacht invade his lands, a boy warrior stands between Ulster and certain annihilation. He soon begins a reign of terror upon the Connacht warriors, appearing out of the darkness to attack and kill.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312862385
• ISBN13: 9780312862381
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Forge
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

The Cattle Raid of Cooley!

Eickhoff's works are all very well done. This work is no exception. He has taken the Celtic epic the Tain and dissected the work, giving it a proper and detailed treatment in telling the tales of Cuchullain, the Hound of Ulster, the single most important hero in Irish myth/history. I recommend getting all these books in the Ulster Cycle in hardback form because you will want to keep these and display them, then reread them again in a few years. Excellent work.

One of the great epics of the world

This wonderful book deserves to be on everyone's shelf. The story of the Cattle Raid of Cooley is translated and retold here in novelistic form to great effect. This story ranks up there with The Iliad and Beowulf as one of the great epics of the world.

A solid novelization

Eickhoff manages to transform one of the great epic poems in Western literature into a solidly-written novel. What it loses in poetic form it makes up for in immediacy. Not for the delicate of sensibilities, but a good introduction to the piece for those who have a hard time dealing with poetry in translation.