Browse Items (15 total)

  • Collection: Medievalism

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

A dismal scene of the view to the lake on the walk from Pettigo, originally included in Caesar Otway's 'Sketches in Ireland'

Caesar Otway imagines the avaricious monks of Station Island in the Middle Ages

Gerald of Wales describes the number and disposition of Ireland's lakes

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

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

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

An account of Lough Derg folklore on a fishing trip, explaining the strange circular currents of the lake in supernatural terms
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