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Oisín was the son of Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the greatest poet of the Fianna, the warrior band his father […]

The Salmon of Knowledge is the most elegantly structured story in the Fenian Cycle, and one of the most perfectly

The Children of Lir is one of the Three Sorrows of Irish mythology, and it is the one that has

Before Deirdre was born, a druid heard her cry in her mother’s womb and prophesied that she would be the

The Táin Bó Cúailnge, the Cattle Raid of Cooley, is the central text of the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology

Queen Medb of Connacht launched the greatest military campaign in Irish mythology over a bull. This is the fact that

The Lebor Gabála Érenn, the Book of the Taking of Ireland, is the foundational text of Irish mythology and one

The Second Battle of Mag Tuired is the central event of Irish mythology. Everything in the mythological tradition either builds

Balor of the Evil Eye was the greatest king of the Fomorians and the most feared being in Irish mythology.

The Fomorians are the oldest hostile force in Irish mythology. They were in Ireland before the Tuatha Dé Danann arrived,