Legends of Saints and Sinners: Collected and Translated from the Irish

by Douglas Hyde

Hyde, Douglas. Legends of saints and sinners. Collected and translated from the Irish. New Barnes & Noble Books, 1973, xv, 295, iiip. Facsimile reprint of the 1915 edition, published by Talbot Press, Dublin, in Every Irishman's Library. This copy varies from the 1915 edition in that it has the three page appendix at the back. Good copy in dust jacket, dj has small tear.

295 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1910

About the author

Douglas Hyde was an author and Irish language scholar who served as the first president of Ireland from 1938 to 1945.

Reviews

[Carol Spears · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was an okay set of stories; my expectations have been lowered for these old stories in the last few years after reading many of them.

I probably look to these old stories for the same kind of situations which lead to very clear do's and don'ts like I read when I was a child and for the most part, these stories never provide that.