The Fenian Cycle (/ˈfiːniən/), Fianna Cycle or Finn Cycle (Irish: an Fhiannaíocht) is a body of early Irish literature focusing on the exploits of the...
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as the Fenian Cycle. In the 1860s, opponents of Irish nationalism within the British political establishment sometimes used the term "Fenianism" to refer...
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Fianna: warrior bands in Irish and Scottish mythology Fenian Cycle: a group of Irish myths Fenian, a slur used for Catholics in Ireland and Scotland, and...
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Salmon of Knowledge (category Fenian Cycle)
The Salmon of Knowledge (Irish: An Bradán Feasa) is a creature in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology, sometimes identified with Fintan mac Bóchra, who...
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Irish mythology (section Mythological Cycle)
of which is the epic Táin Bó Cúailnge ("Cattle Raid of Cooley"). The Fenian Cycle focuses on the exploits of the mythical hero Finn and his warrior band...
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Fianna (category Fenian Cycle)
They are featured in a body of Irish legends known as the 'Fianna Cycle' or 'Fenian Cycle', which focuses on the adventures and heroic deeds of the fian...
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Early Irish literature (section Fenian Cycle)
and Fenian cycles would fill 3,000 more and that, in addition to these, miscellaneous and imaginative cycles that are neither historical nor Fenian, would...
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Plor na mBan (category Fenian Cycle)
In Irish mythology, Plúr na mBan (pronounced ploor-nu-mon)—meaning "the flower of women"—was the daughter of Oisín and Niamh. Monaghan, Patricia (2009)...
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Bodhmall (category Fenian Cycle)
Bodbmall) is one of Fionn mac Cumhaill's childhood foster mothers in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology and the daughter of Tréanmór mac Suailt. She is a...
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known for his terrible battle frenzy Deirdre - tragic heroine of the Ulster Cycle; when she was born it was prophesied that she would be beautiful, but that...
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Gráinne (category Fenian Cycle)
and Gráinne’ is one of the classic love tales and a major epic of the Fenian Cycle." Ellis goes on to say: "Gráinne’s character is always drawn with consistency...
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Keva (mythology) (category Fenian Cycle)
Skin" (known as Keeva or Keva in English) was a minor character in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology, daughter of the hero Fionn mac Cumhail and wife of...
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Fionn mac Cumhaill (category Fenian Cycle)
spear and sword. The tales of Fionn and his fiann form the Fianna Cycle or Fenian Cycle (an Fhiannaíocht), much of it narrated by Fionn's son, the poet...
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Cath Gabhra (category Fenian Cycle)
Gabhra (English: The Battle of Gabhair or Gowra) is a narrative of the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology. It tells of the destruction of the fianna and the...
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Oisín (category Fenian Cycle)
greatest poet of Ireland, a warrior of the Fianna in the Ossianic or Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology. He is the demigod son of Fionn mac Cumhaill and of...
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Goll mac Morna (category Fenian Cycle)
member of the fianna and an uneasy ally of Fionn mac Cumhail in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology. He had killed Fionn's father, Cumhal, and taken over...
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Mythological Cycle, which centers on the Celtic pantheon The Fenian Cycle, which centers on Fionn mac Cumhaill and the Fianna The Cycle of the Kings,...
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Aillen (category Fenian Cycle)
Aillen or Áillen is an incendiary being and evil deity in Irish mythology. He played the harp or timpán and would lull his victims into a deep sleep with...
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Conán mac Morna (category Fenian Cycle)
bald"), is a member of the fianna and an ally of Fionn mac Cumhail in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology. He is usually portrayed as a troublemaker and a comic...
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Oisin (category Fenian Cycle)
Oisín (pronounced [əˈʃiːnʲ, ˈɔʃiːnʲ], approximately USH-een) is an Irish male given name; meaning "fawn" or "little deer", derived from the Irish word...
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Sadhbh (category Fenian Cycle)
In Irish mythology, Sadhbh or Sive (/saɪv/ SYVE) was the mother of Oisín by Fionn mac Cumhail. She is either a daughter of Bodb Derg, king of the Síd of...
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Liath Luachra (category Fenian Cycle)
or the "Grey one of Luachair", is the name of two characters in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology. Both appear in The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, which...
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Giant's Causeway (category Fenian Cycle)
goes that the Irish giant Fionn mac Cumhaill (Finn MacCool), from the Fenian Cycle of Gaelic mythology, was challenged to a fight by the Scottish giant...
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Cumhall (category Fenian Cycle)
("son of Trénmór/Tréanmór" meaning "strong-great") is a figure in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology, a leader of the fianna and the father of Fionn mac...
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Ireland. Other such mythological druids were Tadg mac Nuadat of the Fenian Cycle, and Mug Ruith, a powerful blind druid of Munster. Irish mythology has...
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Caílte mac Rónáin (category Fenian Cycle)
nephew of Fionn mac Cumhaill, a warrior and a member of the fianna in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology. He is described as being able to run at remarkable...
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century BC) Amergin Glúingel Bodhmall—female druid in the Fenian cycle Cathbad—Ulster cycle Gwenc'hlan—6th century Breton Merlin—from the Arthurian legends...
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Fintan mac Bóchra (category Fenian Cycle)
In Irish mythology Fintan mac Bóchra (modern spelling: Fionntán), known as "the Wise", was a seer who accompanied Noah's granddaughter Cessair to Ireland...
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Bran and Sceólang (category Fenian Cycle)
("raven" and "survivor") are the hounds of Fionn mac Cumhaill in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology. The dogs are described as being mostly white, with...
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Niamh (mythology) (category Fenian Cycle)
is the lover or spouse of Oisín, son of Fionn mac Cumhail, in the Fianna Cycle of Irish mythology. In the story of Niamh, she was an otherworldly woman...
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