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Summary

This narrative poem is composed in three parts, and consists of a dialogue between the aged Irish hero Oisín and St. Patrick.  
 
Oison relates his three-hundred year sojourn in the immortal isles of Faerie. In the isles, Oison married the beautiful Sidhe Niamh: together they traveled, feasted, and quested. At last Oison succumbs to the temptation to return and visit the lands of mortal men: inadvertently slipping from his faerie horse, his body touches the ground and instantly puts on the flesh of a decrepit old man.  
 
Oison describes various islands and what he did there: contrasting his noble deeds with the degenerate weakness of the present generation.  
 
(Summary by Godsend)

Duration: about 1 hour (00:51:33)
Publishing date: 2014-08-25; Copyright Year: 1889. Copyright Statment: —

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