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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. He is the demigod son
Ossian playing his harp, by François Pascal Simon Gérard, 1801
Oisín and Niamh on their way to Tír na nÓg, illustration by Albert Herter, 1899
The Dream of Ossian, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1813
Ossian
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Ossian is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson, originally as Fingal and Temora, and later combined under the title The Poems of O
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…Lubitavish, near the Glenann River, outside the village of Cushendall on the North Antrim Coast, and is believed to be the ancient burial place of Oísín. Ossian, the narrator and purported author of a series of poems published by James Macpherson in the 1760s, is based on Oisín. Macpherson claimed to have…
Ossian Singing, Nicolai Abildgaard, 1787
Ossian and Malvina, by Johann Peter Krafft, 1810.
Portrait of James Macpherson by George Romney, 1780
Ossian Evoking ghosts on the Edge of the Lora, by François Pascal Simon Gérard, 1801