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"A clear barometer"

An extract from Seamus Heaney's poem 'Station Island'

Tags: concentration, pilgrimage, poetry, Rome, Seamus Heaney, Station Island, water, water station

"A fantastic display of lightning which continued for nearly two hours"

"Fourteen years passed [from 1918] before there is mention in the records of another such violent upheaval of the waters…"

Tags: Alice Curtayne, lake, lightning, mountains, pilgrim crossing, sound, Station Island, storms, thunder, twentieth century, water, weather

"A huge quarry"

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

Tags: approach, bogland, commercialism, crossing, description, Irish Monthly, pilgrimage, purgatory, road, Station Island, vista, walk

"A mere rock"

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

Tags: aesthetics, description, Irish Monthly, moorland, mountains, negative description, pilgrimage, purgatory, sheep, Station Island

"All around it is the glint and stir of water"

"Many pilgrims surveying the crowds during the night vigil promise themselves that, on their following night of freedom, they will look down from their cubicle windows at the fascination of the scene, when the people emerge and group themselves in…

Tags: Alice Curtayne, Basilica, breeze, crowds, darkness, environment, illusion, lake, lights, motion, night vigil, ocean, pilgrimage, pilgrims, sound, Station Island, stations, twentieth century, view, vista, water, wind