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Aisling
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For the given name, see Aisling (name).
The aisling (Irish for 'dream' / 'vision', pronounced [ˈaʃl̠ʲəɲ], approximately /ˈæʃlɪŋ/ ASH-ling), 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 [ʃ] ("sh") sound.
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Many aisling poems are often still sung as traditional sean-nós songs.[1]