Title Page : A BOOK OF SAINTS AND WONDERS Put Down Here BY LADY GREGORY According To The Old Writings And The Memory Of The People Of Ireland [1906] Scanned By Phillip Brown, April 2004. Additional Proofing And HTML Formatting By John Bruno Hare. This Text Is In The Public Domain. These Files May Be Used...
Book Three. Blessed Patrick Of The Bells : BOOK THREE BLESSED PATRICK OF THE BELLS The Four Households There were many great saints among the Gael, but Patrick was the bush among them all. It was beyond the sea he was born, and his mother was a sister of Saint Martin of Tours; and he dreamed in Rome, and walked all Ireland barefoot. It w...
Book Four. The Voyage Of Maeldune : BOOK FOUR THE VOYAGE OF MAELDUNE The Queen's Foster-Son THERE was a great man of the Eoganacht of the Arans, Ailill of the Edge of Battle his name was. And one time he went with the king making war he fell in with a woman of Kildare, and he forced her; and she bade him to tell her his race and his...
Book I. Brigit, The Mary Of The Gael : BOOK ONE BRIGIT, THE MARY OF THE GAEL Brigit in her Young Youth Now as to Brigit she was born at sunrise on the first day of the spring, of a bondwoman of Connacht. And it was angels that baptized her and that gave her the name of Brigit, that is a Fiery Arrow. She grew up to be a serving girl...
Untitled : A BOOK OF SAINTS AND WONDERS BY LADY GREGORY [1906] Title Page Book I. Brigit, The Mary of the Gael Book Two. Columcille, The Friend of the Angels of God Book Three. Blessed Patrick of the Bells Book Four. The Voyage of Maeldune Book Five. Great Wonders of the Olden Time Book Six. The Voyage...
Book Two. Columcille, The Friend Of The Angels : BOOK TWO COLUMCILLE, THE FRIEND OF THE ANGELS OF GOD The Golden Moon It is noble indeed was the race of Columcille as to this world; and he had a right through his blood to the kingship of Ireland but he put it from him for the sake of God. One time Fintain had a vision, and he saw in the visi...
Book Five. Great Wonders Of The Olden Time : BOOK FIVE GREAT WONDERS OF THE OLDEN TIME Blessed Ciaran and his Scholars The first of the saints to be born in Ireland of the saints was Ciaran, that was of the blood of the nobles of Leinster. And the first of the wonders he did was in the island of Cleire, and he but a young child at the time...
Book Six. The Voyage Of Brendan : BOOK SIX THE VOYAGE OF BRENDAN His Vision of the Land of Promise It is a monk going through hardship Blessed Brendan was, that was born in Ciarraige Luachra of a good father and mother. It was on Slieve Daidche beside the sea he was one time, and he saw in a vision a beautiful island with angels...
Notes : NOTES The Irish text of the greater number of the hymns and legends in this book has been published in the "Revue Celtique", "Irische Texte, Zeitschrift Celtische Phiologie", "Eriu", and elsewhere. From this text I have worked, making my own translation as far as my scholarship goes, and when it...
