A Book Of Saints And Wonders by Lady Gregory

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A Book of Saints and Wonders is a book by Lady Gregory, first published in 1907, that gathers retellings of Irish saintly legends and marvels drawn from old manuscripts and the living memory of rural Ireland. Lady Gregory presents compact, lyrical versions of tales about figures such as Brigit, Columcille (Columba), and St. Patrick, alongside voyage-stories like those of Maeldune and Brendan, blending hagiography with the older, often pagan-rooted wonder-tales of the Irish countryside. The prose aims to preserve the cadence of local speech while rendering complex traditional material accessible to modern readers, making the work useful both for casual readers of folklore and for students of the Irish Literary Revival. Framed by a deep respect for oral tradition and antiquarian sources, the book sits at the crossroads of scholarship and storytelling: it preserves a sense of community memory while smoothing and shaping material for a genteel early-20th-century readership. Readers seeking narratives of miracle, pilgrimage and otherworldly voyages will find concise, atmospheric treatments here, useful for those researching Irish saints, Celtic folklore, hagiography, or the cultural milieu that shaped the Abbey Theatre circle and the broader Gaelic revival.

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