page_title: Oisín
hierarchical_section_title: Oisín
caption_attribution_description: English: "Sometimes a maiden held up an apple of gold to Niam and Usheen, as their slender white horse dashed across the waves of the ocean" •
context_page_description: Oisín, Osian, Ossian, or 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 son of Fionn mac Cumhaill and of Sadhbh, and is the narrator of much of the cycle and composition of the poems are attributed to him.
context_section_description: Oisín ([ɔˈʃiːnʲ] USH-een; anglicized as /ʌˈʃiːn/ ush-EEN or /oʊˈʃiːn/ oh-SHEEN), Osian, Ossian (/ˈɔːʃən/ AW-shən), or 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 son of Fionn mac Cumhaill and of Sadhbh (daughter of Bodb Dearg), and is the narrator of much of the cycle and composition of the poems are attributed to him.
caption: Oisín and Niamh on their way to Tír na nÓg, illustration by Albert Herter, 1899
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