Red Branch - Appearance in Fiction

Appearance in Fiction

Red Branch is the title of a Morgan Llewellyn book written in 1989. The book's story centers around Cúchulainn but takes place largely within the ranks of the Red Branch.

In The Wheel of Time, a fantasy series by Robert Jordan, the Band of the Red Hand that resembles the Red Branch Knights makes its appearance.

The Red Branch warriors, including Cúchulainn and the sons of Usnech, appear as main characters in The Swan Maiden (2009), a novel by Jules Watson about the life of Deirdre The Raven Queen tells more of the story, mainly Maeve's view.

In Cormac McCarthy's debut novel The Orchard Keeper, Red Branch is the name of the town where the majority of the narrative's events take place. Themes of paternity, heroism and pastoralism abound in the novel and several of the characters make oblique references to the poetry of William Butler Yeats, himself an advocate of the mythic tales of the Ulster Cycle. Other appearances in fiction of The Red Branch and the story of The Cattle Raid Of Cooley and of Cúchulainn are featured in the series created by Henry H. Neff, called The Tapestry Series. The books are in order as follows: The Hound Of Rowan, The Second Siege, and The Fiend And The Forge and The Maelstorm.