Immram
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An immram is a class of Old Irish tales concerning a hero's sea journey to the Otherworld. Written in the Christian era and essentially Christian in aspect, they preserve elements of Irish mythology.
Brendan discovering the Faroes and Iceland Stamp sheet FR 252–253 of Postverk Føroya Issued: 18 April 1994 Artist: Colin Harrison
Tír na nÓg
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In Irish mythology, Tír na nÓg or Tír na hÓige is one of the names for the Celtic Otherworld. Tír na nÓg is best known from the tale of Oisín and Niamh.
Immram
…An immram (; plural immrama; Irish: iomramh , 'voyage') is a class of Old Irish tales concerning a hero's sea journey to the Otherworld (see Tír na nÓg and Mag Mell). Written in the Christian era and essentially Christian in aspect, they preserve elements of Irish mythology. The immrama are identifiable…
The 'Land of the Ever Young' depicted by Arthur Rackham in Irish Fairy Tales (1920).
Oisín and Niamh travelling to Tír na nÓg, illustration by Stephen Reid in T. W. Rolleston's The High Deeds of Finn (1910)