Legends of Saints and Sinners: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Legends of Saints and Sinners, credited to Douglas Hyde, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Legends of Saints and Sinners by Douglas Hyde . Read in English by tommack; Geoffrey DeSena; Christine Lehman; Lissy Schneider; Jim Locke; Nolan Purcell; Aiken; Danielle Fedrigo ; Alan Mapstone; Kazbek; ChadH94; Caleb Weaver; Laurel Emerson; KevinS; Jayfield; Cliona Woodbyrne; Lydia H; Kate Mulligan "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

Recording facts

• Recording title: Legends of Saints and Sinners
• Author credits: Douglas Hyde
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 47
• Listed recording duration: 8:06:31

Catalogue topics

• religion
• short stories

Opening tracks: first 24 of 47

1. 00 - Section 0: Introducction — 17:51
2. 01 - Section 1: St. Patrick and Crom Dubh — 16:50
3. 02 - Section 2: Mary's Well — 12:59
4. 03 - Section 3: How Covetousness Came into the Church — 8:53
5. 04 - Section 4: Knock Mulruana — 10:42
6. 05 - Section 5: The Stone of Truth — 11:06
7. 06 - Section 6: The Adventures of Leithin — 25:02
8. 07 - Section 7: The Comparison as to Ages — 11:05
9. 08 - Section 8: The Death of Bearachan — 6:53
10. 09 - Section 9: Story of Solomon — 8:11
11. 10 - Section 10: Christmas Alms — 11:40
12. 11 - Section 11: The Burial of Jesus — 9:34
13. 12 - Section 12: Saint Peter — 13:26
14. 13 - Section 13: Legends of St. Deglan — 9:12
15. 14 - Section 14: St. Paul's Vision — 20:43
16. 15 - Section 15: Oscar of the Flail — 4:42
17. 16 - Section 16: Oisin in Elphin — 4:36
18. 17 - Section 17: The Priest who went to do Penance — 11:52
19. 18 - Section 18: The Friars of Urlaur — 14:33
20. 19 - Section 19: Dialogue between Two Old Women — 6:44
21. 20 - Section 20: The Minister and the Gossoon — 4:04
22. 21 - Section 21: The Keening of the Three Marys — 6:19
23. 22 - Section 22: The Farmer's Son and the Bishop — 7:58
24. 23 - Section 23: Shaun the Tinker — 10:40

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