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Mythological The Colloquy of Fintan and the Hawk of Achill The Colloquy of Fintan and the Hawk of Achill is a Middle Irish poem in which Ireland's oldest man and its oldest bird trade memories of every age of the island's past, from the Flood and the battles of Mag Tuired to the death of Cú Chulainn.