Editing Swan (section)

===Irish lore and poetry===
The Irish legend of the [[Children of Lir]] is about a stepmother who transformed her children into swans for 900 years.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Fate of the Children of Lir |url=http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/celtic/ctexts/lir.html |website=ancienttexts.org |access-date=2 December 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160904192107/http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/celtic/ctexts/lir.html |archive-date=4 September 2016 }}</ref>

In the legend ''[[Tochmarc Étaíne|The Wooing of Etain]]'' the king of the [[Sidhe]] (subterranean-dwelling, supernatural beings) transforms himself and the most beautiful woman in Ireland, Etain, into swans to escape from the king of Ireland and Ireland's armies. The swan has recently been depicted on an [[Euro gold and silver commemorative coins (Ireland)#2004 coinage|Irish commemorative coin]].

Swans are also present in Irish literature in the poetry of [[W. B. Yeats]]. [[The Wild Swans at Coole (poem)|"The Wild Swans at Coole"]] has a heavy focus on the mesmerising characteristics of the swan. Yeats also recounts the myth of Leda and the Swan in [[Leda and the Swan#In poetry|the poem of the same name]].