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"Monks in convents of coracles"

The poetry of Dennis Devlin

Tags: boating, Dennis Devlin, history, Irish history, medievalism, monasticism, pilgrimage, poetry, timelessness, twentieth century

Portuguese portolan chart of Ireland

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

Tags: British Library, cartography, fifteenth century, Grazioso Benincasa, islands, purgatory

Dutch Map of Ulster with Purgatory

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,…

"Lough Derg" by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

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

Tags: barefoot, death, environment, history, nature, pilgrimage, poetry, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, tradition

Station Island Archaeological Survey

It is traditionally believed that a monastic settlement was founded on the nearby Saint’s Island (formerly St. Dabheog's Island) in the fifth century by St. Patrick who installed Dabheoc as the first abbot (see…

Tags: Archaeological survey, Clogher, description, Station Island, summary

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

"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

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