Browse Items (4 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: disappointment Sort by: Title Creator Date Added Unimpressed by Lough Derg A dismal scene of the view to the lake on the walk from Pettigo, originally included in Caesar Otway's 'Sketches in Ireland' Tags: bogland, Caesar Otway, disappointment, hills, landscape, medievalism, mountains, negative, Pettigo, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, St. Patrick, Station Island, The Gothic, William Carleton "You will find instead only stumps, bumps, and conquering armies of weeds, cruel in their strength" "Do not visit Saints' Island with expectation of finding carved stones, a clear ground plan of ancient buildings, or examples of early Christian masonry..." Tags: Alice Curtayne, bramble, cultural memory, cultural trauma, destruction of built heritage, disappointment, inaccessibility, isolation, John O'Donovan, lichen, monasticism, negative description, nostalgia, overgrown, ruins, sadness, twentieth century, weeds A disappointed description of Station Island An account of the religious history of Lough Derg for the traveller. Tags: built heritage, disappointment, J. B. Doyle, Lough Derg, nineteenth century, Station Island The ugly terrain of Lough Derg An account of the religious history of Lough Derg for the traveller. Tags: bogland, disappointment, J. B. Doyle, lake, negative description, nineteenth century, ugliness Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
