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Legends of Saints and Sinners

"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

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Section 0: Introducction (tommack)
Section 1: St. Patrick and Crom Dubh (Geoffrey DeSena)
Section 2: Mary's Well (Geoffrey DeSena)
Section 3: How Covetousness Came into the Church (Christine Lehman)
Section 4: Knock Mulruana (Geoffrey DeSena)
Section 5: The Stone of Truth (Lissy Schneider)
Section 6: The Adventures of Leithin (Jim Locke)
Section 7: The Comparison as to Ages (Nolan Purcell)
Section 8: The Death of Bearachan (Jim Locke)
Section 9: Story of Solomon (Aiken)
Section 10: Christmas Alms (Aiken)
Section 11: The Burial of Jesus (tommack)
Section 12: Saint Peter (tommack)
Section 13: Legends of St. Deglan (Danielle Fedrigo)
Section 14: St. Paul's Vision (Danielle Fedrigo)
Section 15: Oscar of the Flail (Danielle Fedrigo)
Section 16: Oisin in Elphin (Alan Mapstone)
Section 17: The Priest who went to do Penance (Danielle Fedrigo)
Section 18: The Friars of Urlaur (Danielle Fedrigo)
Section 19: Dialogue between Two Old Women (Danielle Fedrigo)
Section 20: The Minister and the Gossoon (Aiken)
Section 21: The Keening of the Three Marys (Alan Mapstone)
Section 22: The Farmer's Son and the Bishop (Danielle Fedrigo)
Section 23: Shaun the Tinker (Danielle Fedrigo)
Section 24: Mary and St. Joseph and The Cherry Tree (Kazbek)
Section 25: The Student who left College (Danielle Fedrigo)
Section 26: The Help of God in the Road (Danielle Fedrigo)
Section 27: The Minister's Son (Aiken)
Section 28: The Old Woman of Beare (Danielle Fedrigo)
Section 29: The Old Hag of Dingle (ChadH94)
Section 30: The Poem of the Tor (Caleb Weaver)
Section 31: Columcille and His Brother Dobhran (Jim Locke)
Section 32: Bruadar and Smith and Glinn (Laurel Emerson)
Section 33: Friar Brian (Laurel Emerson)
Section 34: How the First Cat was Created (KevinS)
Section 35: God spare You your Health (ChadH94)
Section 36: Teig O'Kane and the Corpse (Jayfield)
Section 37: Tomaus O'Cahan and the Ghost (Alan Mapstone)
Section 38: Prayer after Tobacco (KevinS)
Section 39: The Buideach, The Tinker, and The Black Donkey (Cliona Woodbyrne)
Section 40: The Great Worm of the Shannon (Lissy Schneider)
Section 41: The Poor Widow and Grania Oï (Lydia H)
Section 42: The Gambler of the Branch (Lissy Schneider)
Section 43: The Beetle, The Dhardheel, and the Prumpolaun (Aiken)
Section 44: The Lady of the Alms (Kate Mulligan)
Section 45: St. Patrick and his Garron (Kate Mulligan)
Section 46: How Saint Moling got his Name (Kate Mulligan)
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