Editing Cormac mac Airt (section)

==Family==
According to the saga "The Melody of the House of Buchet",<ref>''[http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/buchet.html "The Melody of the House of Buchet]'' (summarised by Miles Dillon)</ref> Cormac married Eithne Táebfada, daughter of [[Cathaír Mór]] and foster-daughter of Buchet, a wealthy cattle-lord from [[Leinster]] whose hospitality was so exploited that he was reduced to poverty. However, in other traditions, Eithne is the wife of Cormac's grandfather [[Conn Cétchathach]]. Keating<ref name="FFE" />  says the foster daughter of Buchet that Cormac married was another Eithne, Eithne Ollamda, daughter of Dúnlaing, king of [[Leinster]]. Also according to Keating, Cormac took a second wife, Ciarnait, daughter of the king of the [[Cruthin]], but Eithne, out of jealousy of her beauty, forced her to grind nine measures of grain every day. Cormac freed her from this labour by having a [[watermill]] built.

Cormac's sons, Dáire, Cellach, Anlach and [[Cairbre Lifechair]], and ten daughters. Two of his daughters, [[Gráinne]] and Aillbe, married the hero [[Fionn mac Cumhaill]]. In the well-known story "[[The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne]]", Gráinne was betrothed to Fionn, but instead ran off with a young warrior of the ''[[fianna]]'', [[Diarmuid Ua Duibhne]]. Diarmuid and Fionn were eventually reconciled, but Fionn later contrived Diarmuid's death during a boar hunt, but was shamed by his son [[Oisín]] into making amends to Gráinne. Fionn and Gráinne were married, and Gráinne persuaded her sons not to make war against Fionn.<ref>[[Tom Peete Cross]] and Clark Harris Slover (eds), [http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/f15.html "The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Grainne"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608214911/http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/f15.html |date=2011-06-08 }}, ''Ancient Irish Tales'', 1936</ref>