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Tuatha Dé Danann

American  
[too-uh-huh dey dah-nuhn] / ˈtu ə hə deɪ ˈdɑ nən /
Also Tuatha Dé or Tuatha dé Danaan

noun

Irish Legend.
  1. a race of gods or demigods who defeated the Fomorians and ruled Ireland during a golden age.


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But Bile, neither a Fomorian nor of the Tuatha Dé Danann, is an imaginary and shadowy creation.

From The Religion of the Ancient Celts by MacCulloch, J. A.

The Tuatha Dé Danann are said to have come from heaven, but this may be the mere assertion of some scribe who knew not what to make of this group of beings.

From The Religion of the Ancient Celts by MacCulloch, J. A.

The fifth, or Tuatha Dé Danann "taking" of Ireland, occurred in the reign of Eochaidh, son of Erc, A.M.

From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Cusack, Mary Frances

There is the usual inconsistency of myth here and in other accounts of Fomorian and Tuatha Dé Danann unions.

From The Religion of the Ancient Celts by MacCulloch, J. A.

The Tuatha Dé Danann are "unfading," their "duration is perennial."

From The Religion of the Ancient Celts by MacCulloch, J. A.

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