The Coming of Cuchulain

Standish O'Grady

The Coming of Cuchulain

Dublin & London

The Talbot Press Limited

[c. 1918]

This copy of O’Grady’s retelling of the Irish legend of Cuchulain was signed on the front and rear endpapers by thirty-nine female Republican prisoners incarcerated in Kilmainham Jail, many noting their cell locations and date under the heading “The Dangerous Ladies.” Kilmainham Jail in Dublin was for many years the main British internment center for Irish dissidents and revolutionaries, including the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising. In 1923, over three hundred women and girls were incarcerated there, many without trial.