An Chraobh Airgid

Person

Fiachra

Fiachra

Say it: FEE-ukh-ruh /ˈfʲiəxɾˠə/

Twin of Conn: the younger pair of Lir’s children.

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Twin brother of Conn. Their birth cost their mother Aobh her life. On the Sea of Moyle he sheltered under Fionnuala’s right wing.

Kin and bonds

In the tales

  • The Children of Lir A jealous stepmother, a druid’s wand, and four children who must live nine hundred years as swans.

See also

  • Conn Twin of Fiachra, the youngest of Lir’s children.

Sources

Medieval manuscript. Written down by Irish scholars between the eighth and seventeenth centuries.

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