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.
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)
Oisín
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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
Tír na nÓg
…lit. 'Land of the Young') or Tír na hÓige ('Land of Youth') is one of the names for the Celtic Otherworld. Tír na nÓg is best known from the tale of Oisín (Irish pronunciation: ) and Niamh (Irish pronunciation: ). In Scottish Gaelic it is spelt Tìr nan Òg () and in Manx, Cheer nyn Aeg…
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