The Project Gutenberg eBook, Legends of Saints & Sinners, by Douglas Hyde, Illustrated by Noel L. Nisbet


LEGENDS OF SAINTS
AND SINNERS

ST. PATRICK AND CROM DUBH

LEGENDS OF
SAINTS & SINNERS

Collected and Translated from the Irish by
DOUGLAS HYDE, LL.D., D.Litt.

With Illustrations by Noel L. Nisbet

THE GRESHAM PUBLISHING COMPANY LTD.
LONDON DUBLIN AND BELFAST


CONTENTS.

Page
Introduction[vii]
St. Patrick and Crom Dubh[1]
Mary's Well[12]
How Covetousness Came into the Church[22]
Knock Mulruana[26]
The Stone of Truth[34]
The Adventures of Leithin[40]
The Comparison as to Ages[56]
The Death of Bearachan[63]
Story of Solomon[66]
Christmas Alms[70]
The Burial of Jesus[76]
Saint Peter[80]
Legends of St. Deglan[87]
St. Paul's Vision[95]
Oscar of the Flail[110]
Oisin in Elphin[114]
The Priest who went to do Penance[116]
The Friars of Urlaur[125]
Dialogue between Two Old Women[136]
The Minister and the Gossoon[142]
The Keening of the Three Marys[145]
The Farmer's Son and the Bishop[148]
Shaun the Tinker[154]
Mary and St. Joseph and The Cherry Tree[163]
The Student who left College[166]
The Help of God in the Road[173]
The Minister's Son[178]
The Old Woman of Beare[188]
The Old Hag of Dingle[192]
The Poem of the Tor[195]
Columcille and His Brother Dobhran[198]
Bruadar and Smith and Glinn[206]
Friar Brian[210]
How the First Cat was Created[214]
God spare You your Health[217]
Teig O'Kane and the Corpse[219]
Tomaus O'Cahan and the Ghost[238]
Prayer after Tobacco[243]
The Buideach, The Tinker, and The Black Donkey [247]
The Great Worm of the Shannon[258]
The Poor Widow and Grania Oï[264]
The Gambler of the Branch[273]
The Beetle, The Dhardheel, and the Prumpolaun[276]
The Lady of the Alms[280]
St. Patrick and his Garron[283]
How Saint Moling got his Name[292]