"Shaking the very stars with their fusillades of Paters"
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne
The repetitive power of an imagined Celtic Christian pilgrimage and prayer in the context of Irish national myth making
Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981
Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 174
Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin
1944
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"Rip Van Winkle whose experience is reversed"
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne
Alice Curtayne describes how traveling to Station Island is like stepping back into the fifth century
Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981
Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 167
Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin
1944
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"Briars encompass it so thickly, and with such aggressiveness, one cannot approach within five or six feet of the mound"
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne
"In the middle of this desolation [on Saints' Island] is an enclosure thickly overgrown with briars, to which barriers of nettles almost prohibit entrance..."
Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981
Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 26
Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin
1944
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"A melancholy silence shrouded the scene"
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne
"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..."
Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981
Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 23
Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin
1944
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