Legends of Saints and Sinners

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Culture & Heritage Fiction

Authors: Douglas Hyde In Year : 0

Book Language: English

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Section 0: Introducction
Section 1: St. Patrick and Crom Dubh
Section 2: Mary's Well
Section 3: How Covetousness Came into the Church
Section 4: Knock Mulruana
Section 5: The Stone of Truth
Section 6: The Adventures of Leithin
Section 7: The Comparison as to Ages
Section 8: The Death of Bearachan
Section 9: Story of Solomon
Section 10: Christmas Alms
Section 11: The Burial of Jesus
Section 12: Saint Peter
Section 13: Legends of St. Deglan
Section 14: St. Paul's Vision
Section 15: Oscar of the Flail
Section 16: Oisin in Elphin
Section 17: The Priest who went to do Penance
Section 18: The Friars of Urlaur
Section 19: Dialogue between Two Old Women
Section 20: The Minister and the Gossoon
Section 21: The Keening of the Three Marys
Section 22: The Farmer's Son and the Bishop
Section 23: Shaun the Tinker
Section 24: Mary and St. Joseph and The Cherry Tree
Section 25: The Student who left College
Section 26: The Help of God in the Road
Section 27: The Minister's Son
Section 28: The Old Woman of Beare
Section 29: The Old Hag of Dingle
Section 30: The Poem of the Tor
Section 31: Columcille and His Brother Dobhran
Section 32: Bruadar and Smith and Glinn
Section 33: Friar Brian
Section 34: How the First Cat was Created
Section 35: God spare You your Health
Section 36: Teig O'Kane and the Corpse
Section 37: Tomaus O'Cahan and the Ghost
Section 38: Prayer after Tobacco
Section 39: The Buideach, The Tinker, and The Black Donkey
Section 40: The Great Worm of the Shannon
Section 41: The Poor Widow and Grania Oï
Section 42: The Gambler of the Branch
Section 43: The Beetle, The Dhardheel, and the Prumpolaun
Section 44: The Lady of the Alms
Section 45: St. Patrick and his Garron
Section 46: How Saint Moling got his Name

"I have called the present volume "Legends of Saints and Sinners," which to a certain extent it is; but I mean it for a book of Irish Christian folk-lore. My idea in compiling it has been to give for the first time a collection of genuine Irish folk-lore which might be called "Christian." By this I mean folk-stories and folk-poems which are either entirely founded upon Christian conceptions, or else are so far coloured by them, that they could never have been told—at least in their present shape—had not Christianity established itself in Ireland. Every one of these stories conforms fairly to this standard, except one or two, which I give as necessary corollaries. They are all translations from the Irish. I have found hardly any such stories in English. They were mostly collected by myself from the mouths of native speakers, but three or four of them I have taken from Irish MSS. in my own possession, and a few more were given me by my friends. Not one of these stories was ever translated into English before, with the exception of those which I have taken from my own "Religious Songs of Connacht." - Summary by From The Introduction