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Situating Lough Derg

A history of Lough Derg and its Antiquities.

Tags: blood, Bundoran, commentary, Derg abban, dimensions, eighteenth century, Fair Lake, Fenian Cycle, Fionn mac Cumhaill, Folklore, Gerald of Wales, James Stephens, mica, moorland, railway, red, slate, St. Dabheoc, St. Fintan, Tirconnell, water

"It was said stone dreams and animal sleeps and man
is awake"

The poetry of Dennis Devlin

Tags: blood, Dennis Devlin, Druid, history, poetry, stone, timelessness, twentieth century

"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

"They here shew a bass relief of Keeronagh, the devil's mother, rudely done on a coinstone of one of the chapels, a figure somewhat resembling that of a wolf, with a monstrous long tail and a forked tongue..."

Tags: blood, Caoranach, Clogher, Dabheoc's seat, etymology, Fionn mac Cumhaill, Folklore, Keeronagh, monster, mountains, mythology, Philip Skelton, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, stonework

Fionn mac Cumhaill escapes the monster's belly

"…Fin M’Coul stood before the monster; but instead of innocently submitting to be sucked in like a common man, Fin, famed as he was above all the Fions for feats of agility, took a hop, step, and leap, and fairly and clearly jumped down its…

Tags: blood, Caesar Otway, colour, dryness, evacuation, Fionn mac Cumhaill, Folklore, hills, lake, monster, mountains, nineteenth century, St. Patrick, superstition

The origin of Lough Derg's name

"There are two different opinions to account for the meaning of the denomination, Lough Derg..."

Tags: Annals of the Four Masters, blood, bogland, colour, Daniel O'Connor, etymology, Fionn mac Cumhaill, Folklore, John O'Donovan, pilgrimage, place names, Royal Irish Academy, St. Patrick, water, wine

The coming of the Norsemen

"One soft autumn noon, the lough lay in a haze of golden mist. Behind the eastern clouds the sun puffed out some streaks of red, angry and livid in their broken setting, but softened and mellow ere they reached the hillsides of Ireland or rested on…

Tags: blood, Celtic revival, hills, literature, massacre, monasticism, myth, ninth century, Norse, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, Vikings

A story of Ugolino's death on Station Island

"Upon an ill day was sin done on the island of the cave itself, and was long remembered as the beginning of many sorrows to Derg..."

Tags: blood, Celtic revival, murder, pilgrimage, Rome, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, Station Island, storytelling, twelfth century, Ugolino

St. Patrick's well at Tullaghan

"St. Patrick’s Well at Tullaghan has a legend. St Patrick stopped the night in a house near a mountain. The woman told him not to look at the light on the mountain, but he went up and saw a serpent and when he struck it, St. Patrick’s Well sprang up.…

Tags: blood, Bundoran, County Donegal, etymology, Folklore, holy well, mountains, St. Patrick, Tullaghan

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