Patrick 'Paddy' Brown

Celtic Artist & Scholar

Contribution to the Show

Patrick Brown has translated some of the Ulster Cycle documents and has given us permission to use a translation of his as the basis for part 2 of the story in Episode 017. He retains full copyright for his translation and this part of the Show does not falll under our Creative Commons Licence. Should you wish to alter or use this in any way, then you must contact the Copyright holder at any of the above links.

Biography

Patrick Brown is from Belfast, a cartoonist, and a superb scholar of the Ulster Cycle of Irish Mythology.

His webcomic, The Ulster Cycle, has been running for over a year. It's an adaptation of a group of stories from Irish legend about the heroes of the Ulaid, the people who gave their name to Ulster.

The first storyline, "Ness", is now complete, and a print edition is available for purchase from Lulu. When the king of Ulster is powerless to stop a murderous outlaw, his daughter Ness turns outlaw herself to hunt him down. But with war looking between the kingdoms of Ireland, will ber father's house still be there to come back to when the job's done?

The next story is the big one: "The Cattle Raid of Cooley". Adapted from Táin Bó Cúailnge, the nearest Ireland has produced to an epic. Medb, queen of Connacht, invades Ulster at the head of a huge army to steal the stud bull Donn Cúailnge, and destroy the king of Ulster, Ness's son Conchobar. The only Ulsterman available to oppose her is Conchobar's sixteen-year-old nephew Cú Chulainn.

"The Cattle Raid of Cooley" begins weekly serialisation on my blog on Wednesday 6 August 2008.

Books

Patrick has 1 book available.

	Ness Buy at Lulu	Ireland, the Iron Age. When the king of Ulster is powerless to stop a murderous outlaw, his daughter Ness turns outlaw herself to hunt him down. But with war looming between the kingdoms of Ireland, will her father's house still be there to come back to when the job's done? Drawn from ancient Irish legend, this volume collects the first storyline of Patrick Brown's acclaimed webcomic.

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