One of these events was planned by an assembly including the Catheads, the Dogheads, a king of France named Vulcan, and a king of Greece oddly named Margaret. One of these events was celebrated in a poem composed of “I am” statements like, “I am the beam of the sun, / I am the fairest of plants.” In a work titled for these events, a king of Scythia nicknamed “Pharisee” crafts a perfect language from the 72 tongues spoken after the fall of the Tower of Babel. One of these events occurred after a man in a (*) watchtower that may be the Tower of Hercules in Galicia made a sighting on a clear winter day. After one of these actions, Cessair and her retinue of 150 women died in the Biblical flood. In a pseudo-historical book titled for these actions, Partholón, Nemed, and the Milesians do it. For 10 points, name these actions that brought the Formorians and Tuatha Dé Danann to their island home. ■END■
ANSWER: invasions of Ireland [accept word forms or synonyms of landing in, sailing to, settling or colonizing in place of “invasions”; accept Éire in place of “Ireland”; prompt on invasions or synonyms by asking “of what place?” prompt on sea journeys, expeditions, or synonyms by asking “to what place?”; prompt on battles by asking “which was fought during what sort of larger event?”] (The first sentence is about the Cath Finntrágha, or Battle of Ventry. The poet Amergin and king Fénius Farsaid appear in Lebor Gabála Érenn, or The Book of Invasions.)
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