Browse Items (2 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: easter Sort by: Title Creator Date Added "A melancholy silence shrouded the scene" "I remember a strange Easter Sunday spent on Saints' Island, not indeed with any hope of finding archaeological confirmation of its history, but simply in communing with the past..." Tags: 'Celtic' monasticism, Alice Curtayne, Augustinians, bird, cultural memory, cultural trauma, destruction of built heritage, easter, emotion, emptiness, fauna, nostalgia, overgrown, ruins, sadness, Saints' Island, silence, St. Dabheoc, St. Patrick, twentieth century, weather, weeds "Unconcernedly the Easter sunshine poured down on that scene of desertion and decay" "The land [of Saints' Island] was cultivated at one time. The marks of the furrows were clearly to be seen at the early season of which I speak..." Tags: agriculture, Alice Curtayne, building, decay, easter, fauna, flora, isolation, lichen, monastery, moss, overgrown, ruins, Saints Island, twentieth century, weeds Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
