Coire Sois, The Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early Irish SagaCoire Sois, The Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early Irish Saga offers thirty one previously published essays by Tom s Cathasaigh, which together constitute a magisterial survey of early Irish narrative literature in the vernacular. Cathasaigh has been called "the father of early Irish literary criticism," with writings among the most influential in the field. He pioneered the analysis of the classic early Irish tales as literary texts, a