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thumb|240px|right|Pierre Puvis de Chavannes|Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes: An Aisling, 1883

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poem
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Republic of Ireland
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thumb|240px|right|Pierre Puvis de Chavannes|Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes: An Aisling, 1883

The , , approximately ), or vision poem, is a mythopoeic poetic genre that developed during the late 17th and 18th centuries in Irish language poetry. The word may have a number of variations in pronunciation, but the is of the first syllable is always realised as a ("sh") sound.

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