Browse Items · Digital Derg: A Deep Map

"A miracle! - A miracle!"

Knox criticises the superstitious hysteria for miraculous cures

Tags: Catholicism, crowds, cure, devotional activities, James Spencer Knox, miracle, nineteenth century, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, Travelogue

"An Excursion into the Fifth Century"

The opening paragraph's of Alice Curtayne's 1932 pamphlet about Lough Derg

Tags: 1930s, Alice Curtayne, Catholicism, Irish Free State, National Identity, pilgrimage, twentieth century

"He always looked for the most inaccessible place in every district"

"Think of [Saint Patrick] located somewhere near Templecarne for several months and thus surrounded. The lake would certainly invite him with its promise of refuge and sanctuary..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, Catholicism, church, fifth century, hermitage, isolation, Parish of Templecarne, pilgrimage, purgatory, ruins, speculation, St. Patrick, Templecarne, Templecarne Graveyard, twentieth century

"Here where thy saints have trod"

An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim.

Tags: Catholic Church, Catholicism, description, Irish identity, Irish Monthly, narrative, pilgrimage, purgatory, reflection, Station Island, suppression, timelessness

"In going there they are answering the call for blood"

"Most pilgrims develop for this rocky island and its harsh routine an affection that really defies explanation..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, blood, Catholicism, cultural memory, essentialism, ethnohistory, exile, familiarity, Irish identity, medievalism, nostalgia, pilgrimage, Station Island, timelessness, twentieth century

"Multitudes of the lower classes of the native Irish"

On the crowds of pilgrims travelling to the site and their motivations

Tags: Catholicism, class, elitism, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, Protestantism, Travelogue

"On prizing up a few loose stones, one exposes heaps of enormous bluebell bulbs, white and skull-like in shape"

The rampant flora overgrowing Saints' Island

"The unbroken stillness of this consecrated spot, was exchanged to bustle, noise, and jarring, of a countless multitude"

Knox reflects on the recent Catholic activities on the land under his feet

Tags: Catholicism, James Spencer Knox, juxtaposition, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Protestantism, sectarianism, temporality, Travelogue

"Tradition, when jealously guarded and carefully handed down is a reliable source of information"

"With the destruction of the buildings in Lough Derg and the expulsion of the Franciscans in 1632, all the records of its glorious part were also destroyed..."

"When any Superstitious Place is defaced or demolished, they repair it"

A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general.

Tags: Catholicism, eighteenth century, John Richardson, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, superstition

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