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Ossian

Legendary Gaelic hero and bard, claimed by both Ireland and Scotland. He is sometimes represented as the son of Finn Mac Cumhaill, in about AD 250, and as having lived to tell the tales of Finn and the Ulster heroes to St Patrick, in about 400. The publication in 1760 of James Macpherson's poems, attributed to Ossian, made Ossian's name familiar throughout Europe.

Ossian

Semi-mythical Gaelic bard whose works, allegedly translated by James Macpherson (1736–1796), influenced the early Romantic movement. Ossian's works were in fact by Macpherson, drawing on ancient sources. Franz Schubert set nine Ossian songs 1815–17.
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The Ossianic tales and legends bear close scrutiny despite what Hume and Gibbon have written.
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Girodet's wash drawings inspired by Ossianic themes reappeared in 1971 when the Musee de Montargis acquired eight of them from the artist's heirs, the Becquerel family.
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He derides the poets of the Revival for being 'antiquarians, delivering with the altitudinous complacency of the Victorian Gael the Ossianic goods'.
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