Tír na nÓg: Mapping the Celtic Land of Eternal Youth

Tír na nÓg: Mapping the Celtic Land of Eternal Youth

What Is Tír na nÓg in Irish Mythology? Tír na nÓg, Old Irish for “Land of the Young,” is the name medieval and early modern Irish texts give to a westerly Otherworld island where time slows, sickness has no purchase, and the Tuatha Dé Danann hold court in perpetual youth. The fullest surviving telling comes […]