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The Island's gift

Jenny awakes to feel the gift of Station Island: a sense of equality in bodily experience

Tags: austerity, embodied experience, emotion, literature, pilgrimage, remoteness, revelation, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, sleep, timelessness, twentieth century, women's dormitory

The impression of Lough Derg on Jenny and Bobby

Jenny discusses her expectations of the place compared to the reality and hopes that it will not be too commercialized, like Lourdes

Tags: colour, commercialism, foam, greyness, impressions, literature, motion, negative description, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, twentieth century, water, waves, weather

The barriers of self

As they drive away from Lough Derg in silence, Jenny reflects on her experience

Tags: car journey, departure, identity, literature, revelations, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, subjectivity, twentieth century

Lough Derg in the rain

Jenny and Bobby arrive at Lough Derg in the rain and are greeted by the sight of the lake and the pilgrims waiting to cross

Tags: boating, cattle, doubt, impressions, Irish identity, literature, negative description, pilgrim crossing, rain, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, St. Patrick, twentieth century, weather

Jenny struggles with her emotions

Jenny struggles with her sense of spirituality as she completes the circuits of the penitentian beds

Tags: anguish, bogland, colour, discomfort, embodied experience, emotion, light, literature, mud, penitential beds, pilgrimage, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, smell, stations, subjectivity, twentieth century, water, weather, wetness

Jenny crosses to Station Island

Jenny gets a sensory impression of the island as she approaches and encounters its contents and topography

Tags: barefoot, boating, building, impressions, literature, penitential beds, pilgrims crossing, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, Station Island, twentieth century, weather, wetness

Jenny completes the stations

As Jenny completes the stations at the penitential beds, she reflects on the power of repetition and prayer and feels the elements

Tags: embodied experience, emotion, literature, penitential beds, physical discomfort, place, repetition, Sean O'Faolain, setting, short stories, stations, twentieth century, water

Jenny asks Bobby to go to Lough Derg

The story opens as Jenny asks to visit Patrick's purgatory, to the confusion of her male companion Bobby

Tags: attitudes, car journey, confusion, first impressions, literature, Lough Derg on the Shannon, Lovers of the Lake, religiosity, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, twentieth century

Bobby interrogates Jenny about her motivations

As they drive towards Lough Derg, Bobby interrogates Jenny as to her motivations for wishing to visit Lough Derg this year of all years. She responds that it is a particularly Irish form of religious devotion and expression.

Tags: car journey, European pilgrim sites, Fatima, Irish identity, Lisieux, literature, Lourdes, motivation, pilgrimage, religiosity, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, twentieth century

Bobby expresses his confusion

Bobby expresses his confusion at the extravagant embodied devotion and extreme austerity of the pilgrimage to Lough Derg and that it exposes a side of Jenny that he has never seen before.

Tags: car journey, confusion, Irish identity, literature, negative description, pilgrims, religiosity, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, twentieth century

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