Oisín, son of Fionn mac Cumhail, is a poet and warrior of the fianna in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology. He is the narrator of much of the cycle. Fionn mac Cumhail was a legendary warrior of Irish mythology. ... In Irish mythology, the Fianna were Irish warriors who served the High King of Ireland in the 3rd century AD. Their adventures were recorded in the Fenian Cycle. ... The Fenian Cycle also known as the Fionn Cycle, Finn Cycle, Fianna Cycle, Finnian Tales, Fian Tales, Féinne Cycle, Feinné Cycle, Ossianic Cycle and Fianaigecht, is a body of prose and verse centering on the exploits of the mythic hero Fionn mac Cumhaill and his warriors the Fianna Éireann. ... Although many of the manuscripts containing texts relating to Irish mythology have failed to survive, and much more material was probably never committed to writing, there is enough remaining to enable the identification of four distinct, if overlapping, cycles: the Mythological Cycle, The Ulster Cycle, the Fenian Cycle and the... The Narrator is the entity within a story that tells the story to the reader. ...

His name means "little deer", and the story is told that his mother, Sadbh, was turned into a deer by a druid, Fer Doirich. When Fionn was hunting he caught her but did not kill her, and she returned to human form. Fionn gave up hunting and fighting to settle down with Sadb, and she was soon pregnant, but Fer Doirich turned her back into a deer and she returned to the wild. Seven years later Finn found her child, naked, on Ben Bulben. Druid can refer to: a priest of the religion of the ancient Celts, see Druidry. ...

Other stories have Oisín meet Fionn for the first time as an adult and contend over a roasting pig before they recognise each other.

In his most famous story, Oisín is visited by a fairy woman called Niamh who announces she loves him and takes him away to the island of Tir na nÓg ("the land of the young") (also referred to as Tir Tairngire, "the land of promise"). Their union produces Oisín's famous son, Osgar, and a daughter, Plor na mBan. After what seems to him to be three years Oisín decides to return to Ireland, but 300 years have passed there. Niamh gives him her white horse, Embarr, and warns him not to dismount, because if his feet touch the ground those 300 years will catch up with him and he will become old and withered. Oisín returns home and finds the hill of Almu, Fionn's home, abandoned and in disrepair. Later, while trying to help some men lift a stone onto a wagon, his reins break and he falls to the ground, and he becomes an old man just as Niamh had predicted. The horse returns to Tir na nÓg. by Sophie Anderson A fairy, or faery, is a creature from stories and mythology, often portrayed in art and literature as a minuscule humanoid with insect-like wings. ... In Celtic mythology, Niamh was the daughter of Manannan mac Lir and Queen of Tir na n-Og. ... In Irish mythology, Mag Mell (plain of joy), also called Tir na nOg (land of young), was the underworld. ... In Irish mythology, Plor na mban (the flower of the lady) was the beautiful daughter of Oisin and Niamh. ... In Irish mythology, Embarr (imagination) is Niamhs horse. ...

He and his comrade Caílte mac Rónáin survived to the time of Saint Patrick and told the saint the stories of the fianna. This is the source of William Butler Yeats's poem The Wanderings of Oisin. Statue of Saint Patrick Saint Patrick (died March 17?, 492 or 493), patron saint of Ireland. ... A 1907 engraving of Yeats. ... The Wanderings of Oisin is an epic poem published by William Butler Yeats in 1889. ...

Oisín is the basis for Ossian, the supposed writer a cycle of supposedly ancient poems which the 18th century Scottish poet James Macpherson falsely claimed to have discovered. Ossian was the supposed writer of a cycle of Scots Gaelic poems forged by James Macpherson. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... James Macpherson (October 27, 1736–February 17, 1796), was a Scottish poet, known as the translator of the Ossianic poems. ...