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"Shaking the very stars with their fusillades of Paters"

The repetitive power of an imagined Celtic Christian pilgrimage and prayer in the context of Irish national myth making

Tags: 'Celtic' monasticism, Alice Curtayne, austerity, devotional activities, prayer, repetition, St. Brendan, St. Patrick, timelessness, twentieth century

"Rip Van Winkle whose experience is reversed"

Alice Curtayne describes how traveling to Station Island is like stepping back into the fifth century

Tags: 'Celtic' monasticism, Alice Curtayne, fifth century, isolation, medievalism, nostalgia, peace, pilgrimage, remoteness, repetition, timelessness, twentieth century

"Briars encompass it so thickly, and with such aggressiveness, one cannot approach within five or six feet of the mound"

"In the middle of this desolation [on Saints' Island] is an enclosure thickly overgrown with briars, to which barriers of nettles almost prohibit entrance..."

Tags: 'Celtic' monasticism, Alice Curtayne, bramble, burial, graveyard, inaccessibility, monastery, monasticism, overgrown, Saints' Island, St. Dabheoc, tomb, twentieth century, weeds

"A melancholy silence shrouded the scene"

"I remember a strange Easter Sunday spent on Saints' Island, not indeed with any hope of finding archaeological confirmation of its history, but simply in communing with the past..."

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