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Tir•Nan•Og is the fabled island off the west coast of Ireland "The land of perpetual youth" where the Tuatha de Danann (the Sidhe) resided.  It also was home to a few mortals   who were carried there by the Sidhe such as the Celtic hero Oisín who loved the ban-sidhe (fairy woman) Niamh and lived on the island for what he perceived to be a year.  Time on Tir•Nan•Og seemed to pass at a different rate to time on earth.   Hence when Oisin returned to his homeland to visit his family and friends he discovered that they were all long dead and three hundred years had passed by.

Other names for Tir•Nan•Og are Oilean nam Beo - the Island of the Living, Tír nam Buadha - the land of Virtues, Hy na Beatha - the island of Life, Tír nam Beo - the land of the Living and Hy Brasail - Brasil's Island, The Land of Promise, and the Land of Youth.  Also known as the Land Over Sea, and the Land Under-Wave.

Time stopped still on Tir•Nan•Og, one never grew old or suffered from any illness, it was always of a temperate climate neither too hot nor too cold.  The flowers bloomed perpetually and never died. There was no sorrow or pain, love was eternal it was without wars or famine or any of the ills of the earth.

To get to Tir•Nan•Og it was necessary to cross a stretch of water and then to go under the waves for a time before coming again to dry land.  The 'horses' of the sidhe crossed the waves as if they were a solid surface.

People have been fascinated by the legend of Tir•Nan•Og for countless generations.  During the twelfth century Giraldus Cambrensis tells the story of how an island appeared suddenly off the west coast of Ireland but when people tried to approach and land it immediately vanished.  A group of people went out again in search of the island and having steered within bowshot of it struck the island with a red-hot arrow in consequence the island immediately remained stationary.

It has long been the subject of poetry and bardic literature.  In 1853 the Ossianic Society was founded by Mr. Hardiman and Mr. O' Flanagan and others to preserve and collect all literature and poems regarding the legendary heroes Fionn mac Cumhaill, Oisín and Oscar and the land of Tir•Nan•Og.

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