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Fenian Cycle vs. Fionn mac Cumhaill

The Fenian Cycle, Fianna Cycle or Finn Cycle (an Fhiannaíocht) is a body of early Irish literature focusing on the exploits of the mythical hero Finn or Fionn mac Cumhaill and his warrior band the Fianna. Fionn mac Cumhaill (Scottish Gaelic:; Old and Find or Finn mac Cumail or mac Umaill), often anglicized Finn McCool or MacCool, is a hero in Irish mythology, as well as in later Scottish and Manx folklore.

*Kóryos

The kóryos (Proto-Indo-European: "army, war-band, unit of warriors") refers to the theoretical Proto-Indo-European brotherhood of warriors in which unmarried young males served for several years, as a rite of passage into manhood, before their full integration into society.

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Acallam na Senórach

Acallam na Senórach (Agallamh na Seanórach, whose title in English has been given variously as Colloquy of the Ancients, Tales of the Elders of Ireland, The Dialogue of the Ancients of Ireland, etc.), is an important prosimetric Middle Irish narrative dating to 1200.

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Aillen

Aillen or Áillen is an incendiary being and evil deity in Irish mythology.

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Bran and Sceólang

Bran and Sceólang ("raven" and "survivor") are the hounds of Fionn mac Cumhaill in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology.

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Cumhall

Cumhall (Cumall) or Cumhall mac Trénmhoir ("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 Cumhaill.

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Diarmuid Ua Duibhne

Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, also known as Diarmuid of the Love Spot, is a hero and demigod in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology, traditionally thought to be set in the 2nd to 4th century.

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Fianna

Fianna (singular Fian; Fèinne) were small warrior-hunter bands in Gaelic Ireland during the Iron Age and early Middle Ages.

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Goll mac Morna

Goll mac Morna (or Goal mac Morn) was a member of the fianna and an uneasy ally of Fionn mac Cumhail in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology.

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Hill of Allen

The Hill of Allen (Cnoc Alúine in Modern Irish, earlier Cnoc Almaine; also Hill of Almu) is a volcanic hill situated in the west of County Kildare, Ireland, beside the village of Allen.

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Irish mythology

Irish mythology is the body of myths indigenous to the island of Ireland.

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Oisín

Oisín, Osian, Ossian, or anglicized as Osheen was regarded in legend as the greatest poet of Ireland, a warrior of the Fianna in the Ossianic or Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology.

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Oscar (Irish mythology)

Oscar (oscara.

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Sadhbh

In Irish mythology, Sadhbh or Sive was the mother of Oisín by Fionn mac Cumhail.

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Samhain

Samhain, i or Oíche Shamhna is a Gaelic festival on 1 November marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or "darker half" of the year.

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Sanas Cormaic

Sanas Cormaic (or Sanas Chormaic, Irish for "Cormac's narrative"), also known as Cormac's Glossary, is an early Irish glossary containing etymologies and explanations of over 1,400 Irish words, many of which are difficult or outdated.

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Silva Gadelica

The Silva Gadelica are two volumes of medieval tales taken from Irish folklore, translated into modern English by Standish Hayes O'Grady and published in 1892.

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The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn

The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn (Macgnímartha Finn) is a medieval Irish narrative belonging to the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology.

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The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne

The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne (Tóraigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne or Tóraíocht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne in modern spelling) is an Irish prose narrative surviving in many variants.

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