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* ''VideoGame/LoveOfMagic'' has Lugh and Cu Chulain as active participants in the story, residing in Tir na NÓg.
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* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: After the modern Irish defeated the Tuatha De Danaan and sent them packing to Tir Na Nog, they learned the hard way why, even if you win, fighting the gods is a bad idea. Without the Tuatha De, the land began to suffer and the humans began to face famine and disease. This only stopped when the humans contacted the Tuatha De Danaan and made a deal with The Dagda (the leader of them at the time). The Tuatha De Danaan, and by extension the [[TheFairFolk Daoine Sidhe/Aos Sidhe]] would continue to make the land prosper in exchange for offerings from the fruits of the humans labors, such as food and libations of alcohol.

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* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: After the modern Irish defeated the Tuatha De Danaan and sent them packing to Tir Na Nog, Tír na nÓg, they learned the hard way why, even if you win, fighting the gods is a bad idea. Without the Tuatha De, the land began to suffer and the humans began to face famine and disease. This only stopped when the humans contacted the Tuatha De Danaan and made a deal with The Dagda (the leader of them at the time). The Tuatha De Danaan, and by extension the [[TheFairFolk Daoine Sidhe/Aos Sidhe]] would continue to make the land prosper in exchange for offerings from the fruits of the humans labors, such as food and libations of alcohol.
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* KillTheParentRaiseTheChild: When the Viking lord Colgan and his sons came to raid Ireland, Fionn Mac Cumhaill and his warriors defeated his vast army, killing Colgan and his sons. That is, all except his youngest, Midac. Feeling he was too young, and taking pity on the boy, Fionn took in Midac and raised him as if he were his own son. Unfortunately, Midac [[YouKilledMyFather always harbored a grudge against Fionn,]] and when the young eventually left The Fianna, Midac allied himself with some of Fionn's enemies in an (ultimately failed) plot to kill him and conquer Ireland.
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See UsefulNotes/IrishNames for pronunciation help with the Irish. (You're on your own with the Welsh.)

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See UsefulNotes/IrishNames for pronunciation help with the Irish. (You're on your own with the Welsh.Welsh until a Welsh troper helps out.)
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In a nutshell: before people came to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles_naming_dispute that archipelago off the Northwestern coast of continental Europe]], a race of intelligent magical beings calling themselves (in Irish, anyway) the ''Tuatha Dé Danann'' (possibly meaning "the people of the goddess Danu"[[note]]There is no goddess called Danu actually found in the mythology.[[/note]] ) lived there. With the arrival of people and their permanent settlements, the Tuatha Dé Danann continued to muck about in the lives of people but retreated to the Otherworld, their [[LandOfFaerie home world]], a world still reachable through places such as fairy forts or fairy burrows. (Interestingly, the "gateways" identified in Celtic stories would not infrequently turn out to be archaeologically significant sites dating to the Neolithic period.)

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In a nutshell: before people came to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles_naming_dispute that archipelago off the Northwestern coast of continental Europe]], a race of intelligent magical beings calling themselves (in Irish, anyway) the ''Tuatha Dé Danann'' (possibly meaning "the people of the goddess Danu"[[note]]There is no goddess called Danu actually found in the mythology.mythology - her existence has been inferred from the name of her people.[[/note]] ) lived there. With the arrival of people and their permanent settlements, the Tuatha Dé Danann continued to muck about in the lives of people but retreated to the Otherworld, their [[LandOfFaerie home world]], a world still reachable through places such as fairy forts or fairy burrows. (Interestingly, the "gateways" identified in Celtic stories would not infrequently turn out to be archaeologically significant sites dating to the Neolithic period.)
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* Creator/CartoonSaloon's ''Irish Folklore Trilogy'':

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* Creator/CartoonSaloon's ''Irish Folklore Trilogy'':''WesternAnimation/IrishFolkloreTrilogy'':
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* AllTrollsAreDifferent: The Fomorians are the ''deity'' versions of trolls, being ugly (usually-Bres ''the Beautiful'' is called that for a reason) giants who come from BeneathTheEarth or the ocean depths. [[TheOldGods They colonized Ireland before the Tuatha de Danaan did]] and universally resent having been kicked out of their homes, making them TheUsualAdversaries of most myth. They're not entirely evil though-many are friends of the Tuatha, and Lugh is a descendant of one.

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* AllTrollsAreDifferent: The Fomorians are the ''deity'' versions of trolls, being ugly (usually-Bres (usually -- Bres ''the Beautiful'' is called that for a reason) giants who come from BeneathTheEarth or the ocean depths. [[TheOldGods They colonized Ireland before the Tuatha de Danaan did]] and universally resent having been kicked out of their homes, making them TheUsualAdversaries of most myth. They're not entirely evil though-many are friends of the Tuatha, and Lugh is a descendant of one.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Hound}}'' is a retelling of the Ulster Cycle by Paul J Bolger and Barry Devlin

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* ''ComicBook/{{Hound}}'' is a retelling of the Ulster Cycle ''ComicBook/{{Hound|2014}}'' by Paul J J. Bolger and Barry DevlinDevlin retells the myth of Cú Chulainn.

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