> From: Maeve B. Callan [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>
> You're probably familiar with Plummer's Bethada Náem nÉrenn (2 vols.
> Oxford, 1922-- sometimes entitled the Lives of the Irish Saints), 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,
>
And, iirc, the overlaps are noted by the editor.
> so it's not a bad place to start and copies of the BNE are pretty easy to
> come by.
>
It's still in print, actually:
Lives of the Irish Saints by Charles Plummer (March 1969) Oxford University
Press; ISBN: 0198213891
Francine Nicholson
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