Lines Written on St Patrick's Purgatory Lough Derg
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Oral History--Poetry
A poem by J. Patton on Lough Derg from the Schools' Collection
J. Patton
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0675, Pages 144-45
National Folklore Collection, UCD
1937-39
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English
Oral history, folklore
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"Lough Derg" by Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Lough Derg--Poetry--Catholicism--Thomas D'Arcy McGee
"In a girdle of green, heathy hills,
In song-famed Donegal,
An islet stands in a lonely lake,
(A coffin in a pall)..."
Thomas D'Arcy McGee, 1825-1868
D'Arcy Magee, Thomas, The poems of Thomas D'Arcy McGee : with copious notes: also an introd. and biographical sketch, pp. 483-86
P.J. Kenedy, New York
1902
Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries
Public domain
Monograph
English
Poetry collection
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"Though my letters are wild as the mountains in which they were written"
Lough Derg--Ordnance Survey--Description--John O'Donovan
"Though my letters are wild as the mountains in which they were written, still do I feel myself very sober in thought, and exceedingly (excessive) in love with truth even to the prejudice of all national feelings…"
John O'Donovan, 1806-1861
Letter from John O'Donovan, Pettigoe, October 28th 1835, p. 242, O’Donovan, John, Ordnance Survey Letters, Donegal: Letters Containing Information Relative to the Antiquities of the County of Donegal Collected during the Progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1835, p. 120
Four Masters Press, Dublin
1835 [2000]
Transcribed and edited by Michael Herity, MRIA
Citation for the purposes of criticism
Edited edition of letters
English with Irish text in Celtic script
Ordnance Survey Letters
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Lough Erne
Lough Derg--Ordnance Survey--Description--Lieutenant Lancey
"The coast of Lough Erne in this neighbourhood is low and a very small portion of it belongs to Templecarn. The general climate of Tyrhugh is moist and damp."
Lieutenant W. Lancey, 1835
Parish of Templecarn, in Institute of Irish Studies, and Royal Irish Academy, Parishes of County Donegal / Edited by Angélique Day and Patrick McWilliams. II 1835-6, Mid, West and South Donegal., Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland; v.39 , p. 158
Institute of Irish Studies in association with The Royal Irish Academy, Belfast
1835-6 [1997]
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Monograph
English
Ordnance survey memoir
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The bogs of Templecarn
Lough Derg--Ordnance Survey--Description--Lieutenant Lancey
"There is a vast extent of bog in Templecarn in which fir and other timber are found..."
Lieutenant W. Lancey, 1835
Parish of Templecarn, in Institute of Irish Studies, and Royal Irish Academy, Parishes of County Donegal / Edited by Angélique Day and Patrick McWilliams. II 1835-6, Mid, West and South Donegal., Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland; v.39, p. 158
Institute of Irish Studies in association with The Royal Irish Academy, Belfast
1835-6 [1997]
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Monograph
English
Ordnance survey memoir
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"All around it is the glint and stir of water"
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne
"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 the loggias..."
Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981
Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 176
Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin
1944
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Monograph
English
History
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"Recited in the open, while facing the airy spaciousness of mountain, sky and water"
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne
"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..."
Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981
Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 168
Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin
1944
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English
History
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