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Miranda (1947) with Glynis Johns and its sequel, Mad About Men (1955). These films were translated to America in 1988 as Splash!
[I] Daughter of Étain Oig and Cormac, king of Ulster, her father ordered her to be killed because he wanted a son. The two men who undertook the task left the child in the barn of the cowherd of the High King Eterscél. It was prophesied that a woman of an unknown race would bear a son who would be famous, so when her beauty becomes known, Eterscél plans to marry her. On the night before the wedding she is visited by Nemglan, the bird god, and the result of their union is Conaire Mór, although Mess Buachalla is wedded to the High King, who brings him up as his own child.
[I] A son of Dian Cécht, god of medicine, who proved a better physician than his father, who grew jealous at his accomplishments and murdered him. Herbs grew from his grave that were gathered by his sister Airmid, who laid them out on a cloak in order of their curative values. But her father shook the cloak and so jumbled them that their secrets vanished forever.
[I] Eponym of Meath, the Middle Province. In the days of the Ulster cycle, Ireland consisted of only four provinces. The fifth province, Mide, was established by the High King Tuathal Teachmhair, a.d. 130–160, so that the High Kings might be independent of the politics of the four provinces. Hence the term “Royal Meath,” which still survives.
[I] Son of the Dagda and a powerful god himself. He dwelt at the sídhe of Bri Leith, Slieve Callory, west of Ardagh, Co. Longford. When the Dagda resigned the leadership of the gods, he refused to accept the choice of the Bodb Dearg and made war on him. This “civil war” among the gods seemed inconclusive, but it meant the end of the power of the gods and they retreated into their underground palaces and became fairies in the minds of the people.
[I] The followers of Milesius, the ancestors of the Gaels.
[I] Sometimes given as Míl. His original name is Golamh, but he became popular under the Latin form Milesius, signifying a soldier. Míle Easpain, a soldier of Spain, is one epithet. On hearing of the death of his nephew Ith in Ireland, slain by the Dé Danaan, Milesius sets out to conquer Ireland. He does not reach it, but his wife Scota does. She is killed in Kerry. It is their sons who carry out the conquest.
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