Did Plummer ever publish an English translation of the Vitae
Sanctorum
Hiberniae? If Plummer did not, has anyone else published a
translation?
Charles Skallerud
No, Plummer did not, nor has anyone else to my knowledge, either of the
vitae Plummer published, or of the other vitae from the great
collections [see also William Heist's edition of the Vitae
Sanctorum Hiberniae (Brussels, 1965)]. If you're lucky, you
might be able to find the odd vita here or there in translation and
before too long, I hope, the Vitae Sanctarum Hiberniae
should be published in English. You're probably familiar with
Plummer's Bethada
NTimesáem
nÉrennTimes
(2 vols. Oxford, 1922-- sometimes
entitled the Lives of the Irish
SaintsTimes),
the Irish Lives of the Saints, translated into English in vol II. It
offers a much smaller selection than the VSH, but there's quite a bit
of overlap with the VSH, so it's not a bad place to start and copies of
the BNE are pretty easy to come by.
Maeve
