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{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{About|the character from Irish mythology|the Dutch pagan folk band|Cesair}} '''Cessair<ref>{{cite web |title=Cessair |url=https://nameberry.com/babyname/Cessair |website=Nameberry |access-date=7 November 2018}}</ref>''' or '''Cesair''' ({{langx|ga|label=[[Modern Irish]]|'''Ceasair'''}}, meaning 'sorrow, affliction') is a character from a [[medieval]] [[Ireland|Irish]] [[origin myth]], best known from the 11th-century chronicle text ''[[Lebor Gabála Érenn]]''. According to the ''Lebor Gabála'', she was the leader of the first inhabitants of Ireland, arriving before the [[Genesis flood narrative|Biblical flood]].<ref name=DCM>"Cesair 1," A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. James McKillop. [[Oxford University Press]], 1998.</ref> The tale may have been an attempt to [[Christianisation|Christianise]] an earlier [[Paganism|pagan]] myth.<ref name=DCM/>
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