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Cuchulain

British  
/ kʊˈxʊlɪn, kuːˈkʌlɪn /

noun

  1. Celtic myth a legendary hero of Ulster

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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That helped draw in 24-year-old Cuchulain Kelly and his friends.

From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2016

"Being an immigrant church, we wanted to show we were more American than anyone," explains Father Cuchulain Moriarty, who runs San Francisco's archdiocesan social justice commission.

From Time Magazine Archive

We’d fish for eels and fry them in a pan not like Cuchulain, who would pluck them from the lough and swallow them, wriggling, because there’s great power in an eel.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

It was a great silvery sheet of water and Dad said it was Lough Neagh, the largest lake in Ireland, the lake where Cuchulain used to swim after his great battles.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

She wouldn’t cry anymore and my mother wouldn’t be in the bed day and night and Dad would be telling me Cuchulain stories and I wouldn’t want Mrs. Leibowitz to be my mother anymore.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt