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] |