Legend has it that the hero Fionn mac Cumhaill was born in Conn's time.

Two of his daughters, Gráinne and Aillbe, married the hero Fionn mac Cumhaill.

As such, he has some connection to the Irish hero Fionn mac Cumhail, whose grandfather was Nuada.

In the mid 16th century, Elis Gruffydd recorded a legendary account of Taliesin which resembles the story of the boyhood of the Irish hero Fionn mac Cumhail and the salmon of wisdom in some respects.

Alternatively, some early texts call the hero " Fionn mac Umaill ", which may indicate his father's name was originally Umall.

Both appear in The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, which details the young life and adventures of the hero Fionn mac Cumhaill.

Sadbh, the wife of the famous hero Fionn mac Cumhaill was changed into a deer by the druid Fer Doirich.

According to legend, the crypt may be the final resting place of the great hero Fionn mac Cumhaill, about whom legends abound in Irish and Scottish mythology.

The Fenian Cycle (; ), also referred to as the Ossianic Cycle after its narrator Oisín, is a body of prose and verse centering on the exploits of the mythical hero Fionn mac Cumhaill and his warriors the Fianna.

In Irish mythology, the hero Fingal is known as Fionn mac Cumhaill, and it is suggested that Macpherson rendered the name as Fingal ( meaning " white stranger ") through a misapprehension of the name which in old Gaelic would appear as Finn.

The story has a parallel in the Irish tale The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, in which the young hero Fionn mac Cumhaill receives prophetic wisdom intended for his master Finn Eces by consuming the Salmon of Wisdom.

An Irish folktale attributes the formation of the Isle of Man to Ireland's legendary hero Fionn mac Cumhaill ( commonly anglicised to Finn McCool ).

Caoimhe or Cébha " of the Fair Skin " ( known as Keeva or Keva in English ) was a minor character in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology, daughter of the hero Fionn mac Cumhail and wife of his enemy, Goll mac Morna.

It consists of a group of heroic tales dealing with the lives of Conchobar mac Nessa, king of Ulster, the great hero Cú Chulainn, the son of Lug, and of their friends, lovers, and enemies. These are the Ulaid, or people of the North-Eastern corner of Ireland and the action of the stories centres round the royal court at Emain Macha ( known in English as Navan Fort ), close to the modern town of Armagh.

He is known by the epithets Lámhfhada ( pronounced /' la: wad ̪ ˠə /, meaning " long arm " or " long hand "), for his skill with a spear or sling, Ildánach (" skilled in many arts "), Samhildánach (" Equally skilled in many arts "), Lonnbeimnech (" fierce striker " or perhaps " sword-shouter ") and Macnia (" boy hero "), and by the matronymic mac Ethlenn or mac Ethnenn (" son of Ethliu or Ethniu ").

In Irish mythology, Cas Corach was a hero who helped Caílte mac Rónáin kill three werewolf-like creatures, the daughters of Airitech who would come out of the Cave of Cruachan every year around Samhain and destroy sheep.

* Amergin mac Eccit, poet and hero of the Ulster Cycle

Others have identified Bendigeidfran with the Irish hero Bran mac Febal.

Súaltam ( Súaltaim, Súaldam, Súaldaim, Súaltach ) mac Róich is the mortal father of the hero Cúchulainn in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.

Some believe that it was the residence of Celtchar mac Ulthechair, the legendary Iron Age hero of the Ulster Cycle.

Spelled Caladcholg, it is also associated with the more obscure Ulster hero Fergus mac Leda, suggesting a conflation of two legends.

( e. g., Lugh's appearance as the divine father and Morrígan as nemesis to the Ulster hero Cuchulainn ; encounters of Finnian characters with dwellers of the sidhe ; Cormac mac Airt's, or his grandfather's visits to the otherworldly realms.

According to legend, he finds the Ulster hero Conall Cernach close to death after his final combat with Cet mac Mágach, takes him home and tends to his wounds, intending to fight him when Conall is fit enough.

The hero, who is himself, is represented as a pilgrim in the storied lands of the East, a sort of Faustus type, who, to quote from Professor Book again, `` even in the pleasure gardens of Sardanapalus can not cease from his painful search after the meaning of life.

Though it centers around the brilliant and enigmatic figure of Charles 12,, the true hero is not finally the king himself.

Each is still glorified as a national hero.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

As the hero, Mitchell Courtenay, explains before his conversion, the job of advertising is `` to convince people without letting them know that they're being convinced ''.

The private detective ( at least in the minds of listeners and readers all over the country ) is an individual hero fighting injustice.

In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.

he is far from being a literary hero, yet is a creative artist.

`` The hero of his next poem is Napoleon Bonaparte '', said Claire, with slightly overdone carelessness.

He is most effective in the ordinary business of the House, and in the legislative accomplishments of this session, he easily rose to great occasion -- even at the height of unpleasantness and exciting legislative struggle -- and as the Nation witnessed these contests, he rose, even as admitted by those who differed with him, to the proportions of a hero and a noble partisan.

Marcellus, the hero, is beset from all sides by the problems of approaching manhood.

In this historic square are several statues, but the one that stands out over the others is that of Gen. Andrew Jackson, hero of the Battle of New Orleans.

Their secondary hero is another pro, Willie Chisholm, who drank his lunch during another Open and tried to blast his way out of a rock-strewn gully.

For the hero of this work by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton is a chap embittered by more than the lack of beer during a jam session.

Since the hero, a sterling and upright fellow, is a rich Brown senior, while two Yalies are cast as virtual rapists, I suppose I should disqualify myself from sitting in judgment on `` Where The Boys Are '', but I shall do nothing of the sort.

This scene is a `` white ballet '' in which a lovelorn hero searches for his departed love's spirit among twenty-eight extraordinarily beautiful `` shadows '' who can all dance like nothing human -- which, of course, is altogether fitting.

However, at the same time Montgomery selects as his hero De Gaulle, who is a militarist dominated by political ambitions.

With this derivation, the name would have a double meaning in the poem: When the hero is functioning rightly, his men bring grief to the enemy, but when wrongly, his men get the grief of war.

Upon his assumption into immortality on Olympus, Heracles is given ambrosia by Athena, while the hero Tydeus is denied the same thing when the goddess discovers him eating human brains.

Atë, Greek for ' ruin, folly, delusion ', is the action performed by the hero, usually because of his / her hubris, or great pride, that leads to his / her death or downfall.

The story of Ajax was frequently made use of by ancient poets and artists, and the hero who appears on some Locrian coins with the helmet, shield, and sword is probably this Ajax.