Stories by cycle
Mythological Cycle
- Mythological Oidheadh Chlainne Lir Lir's four children are turned into swans by their jealous stepmother Aoife and endure nine hundred years of exile across Ireland's waters until a Christian bell on Inishglora, off the Mayo coast, heralds the end of the spell.
- Mythological The Colloquy of Fintan and the Hawk of Achill The Colloquy of Fintan and the Hawk of Achill is a Middle Irish poem in which Ireland's oldest man and its oldest bird trade memories of every age of the island's past, from the Flood and the battles of Mag Tuired to the death of Cú Chulainn.
- Mythological The Fate of the Children of Tuireann Oidheadh Chlainne Tuireann (The Fate of the Children of Tuireann) is one of the Three Sorrows of Storytelling: the sons of Tuireann murder Lugh's father and are sent on a blood-fine quest that wins every treasure and costs them their lives.
- Mythological The First Battle of Mag Tuired (Cath Maige Tuired Conga) The First Battle of Mag Tuired is the Mythological Cycle tale in which the newly arrived Tuatha Dé Danann defeat the Fir Bolg in a four-day battle near Cong, where the champion Sreng severs King Nuada's arm and the defeated Fir Bolg are granted Connacht.
- Mythological The Second Battle of Mag Tuired Cath Maige Tuired is the defining war-myth of the Mythological Cycle: the Tuatha Dé Danann, led by the many-skilled god Lugh, overthrow the Fomorians on the plain near Lough Arrow in County Sligo, and Balor of the Evil Eye falls to his own grandson.
- Mythological The Wooing of Étaín Tochmarc Étaíne (The Wooing of Étaín) is the principal tale of the Irish Mythological Cycle: the Otherworld king Midir loses his wife Étaín to jealous magic and wins her back at Tara a thousand years later.