Ten Thousand Saints Rare and Limited Editions a century after the abbey’s

a century after the abbey’s foundation

reveal his views on art

FLANN O’BRIEN is a cult hero whose comic genius has been praised by anyone who is anyone – from James Joyce to Graham Greene

A few years later

when the first edition of The Growth Illusion appeared

Ten Thousand Saints Rare and Limited Editions a century after the abbey’sDuring the twenty years from the early 1950s to the [1972] publication of Ten Thousand Saints Hubert Butler amassed, by hand, every possible reference to every possible saint in the Irish corpus in Irish and Latin His understanding of Ireland as part of the bigger picture of prehistoric Europe is refreshing and his ability to trace the traditions of the historical Irish back to that picture is exciting. from the introduction by Alan Harrison When it