Books This site features downloadable copies of the following books written by Kim McCone: Pagan Past and Christian Present in Early Irish Literature A First Old Irish Grammar Reader Towards a Relative Chronology of Ancient and Medieval Celtic Sound Change The Origins and Development of the Insular Celtic Verbal Complex Articles The good, the bad and the lovely: the transmission of kingship in Esnada Tige Buchet and The Odyssey, and medieval Irish reflexes of Proto-Indo-European sovereignty myths THE << CELTS>> : QUESTIONS OF NOMENCLATURE AND IDENTITY Cú Chulainn’s first arming and outing (cét-gabál gaiscid): Roman and Greek parallels for his slaying of three brothers (Horatius, the Curiatii and Heracles), “woman trouble” (Horatius and Coriolanus), and immersions (Diomedes and Odysseus) Warriors’ blazing heads and eyes, Cú Chulainn and other fiery cyclopes, ‘bright’ Balar, and the etymology of Old Irish cáech, ‘one eyed’ King’s sons, a hideous hag and a golden stag in Indian epic Mocking the afflicted: morals and missing body-parts in Scéla Muicce meic Da Thó and Waltharius