The Last of the Fingallians

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  • The Last of the Mohicans: an 1826 novel by American author Ja,es Fenimoore Cooper
  • Fingal: another name for Finn MacCool, and teh hero of the Ossian poems (1760), a counterfeit collection of ur-Celtic works that was an early inspiration for the Romantic movement
  • 'Irish Hudibras, The; or the Fingallian Prince' (1689:, by James Farewell. a parody of the Sixth Book of Virgil's Aenaeid, with teh decent into Hell, ,set in Dublin
  • Fingallian: someone from rthe area just north of Dublin; the name derives from the Irish Fine Gall meaning "foreign tribe", in refernce to the Viking invaders' alternately it may be Fionn Gall means "fair foreigners"