Books by Hubert Butler
Ten Thousand Saints
by Hubert Butler
Butler drew on his extensive knowledge of Irish history to argue that Iron Age politics and society, across Europe, are the source of Ireland's fantastical saints and their legends.
Interviews where books by Hubert Butler were recommended
The best books on Early Irish History, recommended by Hector McDonnell
One of Ireland’s best-known contemporary painters discusses five books on early Irish history and explains that the myriad of oddly named and often eccentric Irish saints are in fact mythical ancestors or local gods
