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"I at length reached the goal of my long-nourished desire"

Knox describes the scene of crowds waiting to cross to Station Island

Tags: boating, crowds, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, pilgrim crossing, Protestant critique, Travelogue

"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

"The pilgrims throng the shore opposite to the island"

Knox describes the practices of the pilgrimage as he has heard them

Tags: crowds, ferry house, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, pilgrim crossing, Protestant critique, Travelogue

Photograph of a crowd at the Ferry House, Lough Derg, Co. Donegal

The approach to Lough Derg Ferry House

Tags: crowds, ferry house, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, Robert French, Station Island, William Lawrence

"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

"Recited in the open, while facing the airy spaciousness of mountain, sky and water"

"The repetition of the baptismal vow [before St. Brigid's Cross] is a reaching back again towards baptismal innocence and is the usual ritual of retreats..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, baptism, contemplation, crowds, environment, isolation, landscape, mountains, pilgrimage, pilgrims, repetition, retreat, St. Brigid's Cross, Station Island, stations, timelessness, twentieth century, weather

The approach to the lake

"Pettigo. (July 23, 1824). A country road leads in this direction a mile: after leaving which we passed over the mountains following a path, which the number of devotees who visit the Island, had marked too distinctly to be mistaken..."

Tags: aesthetics, crowds, heath, mountains, negative, negative description, nineteenth century, Pettigo, pilgrim path, pilgrim road, pilgrimage, pilgrims, Shane Leslie, view, vista, weather

The ferry to Lough Derg

Frontispiece etching of the waiting pilgrims and ferry boats to Station Island from the south shore of Lough Derg

Tags: boating, crossing, crowds, ferry, landscape, pilgrimage, Station Island

The business of ferrying pilgrims to Station Island

"It is almost incredible what crowds visit this island annually, during the months of June, July, and August—it being no unusual thing to see from 900 to 1000 persons of both sexes upon it at one and the same time..."

Tags: boating, commercialism, crossing, crowds, infrastructure, international visitors, overcrowding, Philip Dixon Hardy, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, satire, Station Island

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