Douglas Hyde

CONTENTS Introduction St. Patrick and Crom Dubh Mary's Well How Covetousness Came into the Church Knock Mulruana The Stone of Truth The Adventures of Leithin The Comparison as to Ages The Death of Bearachan Story of Solomon Christmas Alms The Burial of Jesus Saint Peter Legends of St. Deglan St. Paul's Vision Oscar of the Flail Oisin in Elphin The Priest who went to do Penance The Friars of Urlaur Dialogue between Two Old Women The Minister and the Gossoon The Keening of the Three Marys The Farmer's Son and the Bishop Shaun the Tinker Mary and St. Joseph and The Cherry Tree The Student who left College The Help of God in the Road The Minister's Son The Old Woman of Beare The Old Hag of Dingle The Poem of the Tor Columcille and His Brother Dobhran Bruadar and Smith and Glinn Friar Brian How the First Cat was Created God spare You your Health Teig O'Kane and the Corpse Tomaus O'Cahan and the Ghost Prayer after Tobacco The Buideach, The Tinker, and The Black Donkey The Great Worm of the Shannon The Poor Widow and Grania O The Gambler of the Branch The Beetle, The Dhardheel, and the Prumpolaun The Lady of the Alms St. Patrick and his Garron How Saint Moling got his Name

Three Irish Plays is a collection of three plays by J. M. Synge, a prominent Irish playwright of the early 20th century. The first play, The Land of Heart's Desire, tells the story of a young couple who are visited by fairies in their home in rural Ireland. The second play, The Twisting of the Rope, is a tragic tale of a young man who is falsely accused of stealing a sheep and is executed as a result. The final play, Riders to the Sea, is a haunting portrayal of the lives of a family living on the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland, as they struggle to come to terms with the death of their loved ones at sea. These three plays are considered some of Synge's finest works and are celebrated for their portrayal of Irish culture and the beauty of the Irish landscape. Introduction By Harrison Hale Schaff. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

On March 14, 1948, Douglas Hyde handed in his resignation as the news editor of the London Daily Worker and wrote "the end" to twenty years of his life as a member of the Communist Party. A week later, in a written statement, Hyde announced that he had renounced Communism and, with his wife and children, was joining the Catholic Church. The long pilgrimage from Communism to Christ carried Douglas Hyde from complete commitment to Marxism, to a questioning uneasiness about Soviet Russia's glaring contradictions of ideology and action, to a final rejection of the Party. In Dedication and Leadership, Hyde advances the theory that although the goals and aims of Communism are antithetical to human dignity and the rights of the individual, there is much to be learned from communist methods, cadres and psychological motivation. Hyde describes the Communist mechanics of instilling dedication, the first prerequisite for leadership. Here is the complete rationale of party technique: how to stimulate the willingness to sacrifice; the advisability of making big demands to insure a big response; the inspirational indoctrination; and the subtle conversion methods. In this small book, so large with implications, Douglas Hyde comments on both Communist and Catholic potential and their lack of maximum effectiveness. He advocates positive Catholic action, not just a negative anti-Communism, and he points out that the guidelines are now down for a decisive choice between total Communism and a total Christianity. Here is a realistic approach to an acute problem uncolored by emotional propaganda, and here is a realistic answer on how to inspire dedication for leadership.