Tír na nÓg

See also: Tír na n-Óg

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish Tír na nÓg (literally “land of the young”), from Old Irish Tír inna n-Óc. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic Tìr nan Òg, Manx Çheer ny Aeg.

Proper noun

Tír na nÓg

1. (Irish mythology) The Land of (eternal) Youth; one of the names for the Celtic otherworld (or possibly a part thereof).
   • 2013, John Jacob English, Fragile Blue, AuthorHouse, page 40,

     In the old Irish folklore, this is a land where no one gets old or sick and where heroes live in comfort and tranquillity. But the land of Tír na nÓg only materialises to mere mortals at certain times, under certain circumstances.

   • 2016, Christopher Collins, Theatre and Residual Culture, Springer Nature (Palgrave Macmillan), page 261,

     Tír na nÓg is not an afterlife analogous to the Christian concept of heaven but an Otherworld of earthly paradise that is home to the genealogical ancestors of the fairies, the Tuatha Dé Danaan.

   • 2020, Isabelle Torrance, Post-Ceasefire Antigones and Northern Ireland, Isabelle Torrance, Donncha O'Rourke (editors), Classics and Irish Politics, 1916–2016, Oxford University Press, page 338,

     Grafting Tír na nÓg, the mythical land of eternal youth in Irish mythology, onto the Greek tragic tale is a stark and unexpected move.

Translations

mythological location

• Irish: Tír na nÓg f

  Old Irish: Tír inna n-Óc n

• Manx: Çheer ny Aeg
• Scottish Gaelic: Tìr nan Òg

Irish

Alternative forms

• Tír na n-Óg (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish Tír inna n-Óc. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic Tìr nan Òg, Manx Çheer ny Aeg.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˌtʲiːɾˠ n̪ˠə ˈn̪ˠoːɡ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˌtʲiːɾˠ n̪ˠə ˈn̪ˠɔːɡ/

Proper noun

Tír na nÓg

1. (Irish mythology) Tír na nÓg

   Synonym: Tír na hÓige

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
Tír na nÓg	Thír na nÓg	dTír na nÓg
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.