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  • Collection: Medievalism

A description of the power given to unexplained natural phenomena in Irish folklore, and the character of the storytellers

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"In a girdle of green, heathy hills,
In song-famed Donegal,
An islet stands in a lonely lake,
(A coffin in a pall)..."

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The poetry of Dennis Devlin

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Luis approaches Purgatory and meets Polonia

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Yeats' reflection on the affinity for bodies of water within the Irish poetic imagination and psyche

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Curator's description: "In 1577, at the age of 63, Adriaen Coenensz from Scheveningen, a Dutch fishing port, started his Vis booc. Over a period of three years he collected all kind of information about the sea, the coasts, and coastal waters,…

O'Donovan's account from a local of the origin of Lough Derg's name in a story from the Fenian Cycle

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A map of Ireland including the prominent location of The Purgatory of Saint Patrick.

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A debate over the reliability of oral history, in which O'Donovan cites the heterogeneity of County Donegal local stories

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A portolan chart of Europe by Grazioso Benincasa, showing the Aegean

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