Browse Items (15 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Collection: Medievalism Page of 2 Next Page Sort by: Title Creator Date Added Hybernia Nunc Irlant A map of Ireland including the prominent location of The Purgatory of Saint Patrick. Tags: Bibliothèque nationale de France, cartography, Ireland, Map, pilgrimage, sixteenth century, St. Patrick, Ulster Unimpressed by Lough Derg A dismal scene of the view to the lake on the walk from Pettigo, originally included in Caesar Otway's 'Sketches in Ireland' Tags: bogland, Caesar Otway, disappointment, hills, landscape, medievalism, mountains, negative, Pettigo, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, St. Patrick, Station Island, The Gothic, William Carleton Sketches of greedy monks Caesar Otway imagines the avaricious monks of Station Island in the Middle Ages Tags: anticlericalism, Caesar Otway, Catholicism, contempt, imagination, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, satire, sketches The lakes of Ireland Gerald of Wales describes the number and disposition of Ireland's lakes Tags: fishing, geography, Gerald of Wales, islands, lakes, positive description, topography, twelfth century, water, wildlife "Tempt the lake's dark wave" Luis approaches Purgatory and meets Polonia Tags: grimness, mountains, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age "The water, the water of the seas and of lakes and of mist and rain, has all but made the Irish after its image" Yeats' reflection on the affinity for bodies of water within the Irish poetic imagination and psyche Tags: Folklore, Irish identity, mythology, religion, W. B. Yeats, water Oral history and facts A debate over the reliability of oral history, in which O'Donovan cites the heterogeneity of County Donegal local stories Tags: debate, empiricism, Folklore, John O'Donovan, letters, nineteenth century, Oral History, ordnance survey, reliability, religion, scientism, tradition Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the worm of Lough Derg O'Donovan's account from a local of the origin of Lough Derg's name in a story from the Fenian Cycle Tags: etymology, Fair Lake, Fenian Cycle, Fionn mac Cumhaill, John O'Donovan, lake, letters, mythology, nineteenth century, ordnance survey, Red Lake, worm "In nine cases out of ten, the legend is simply an attempt made by an unlettered, but imaginative people, to account for natural appearances by supernatural agency" A description of the power given to unexplained natural phenomena in Irish folklore, and the character of the storytellers Tags: colonialism, conversation, debate, dispute, fishing, Folklore, Henry Newland, Irish identity, memoir, mythology, negative description, nineteenth century, superstition, upper lake The March of the Dead Maguires An account of Lough Derg folklore on a fishing trip, explaining the strange circular currents of the lake in supernatural terms Tags: fishing, Folklore, ghosts, Henry Newland, lake, Maguire family, memoir, mythology, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, Station Island, supernatural, water, weather Page of 2 Next Page Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2