Browse Items (13 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: fauna Previous Page Page of 2 Sort by: Title Creator Date Added "If I had my will, every otter-fisher should be solemnly ducked" "'If ever an otter is admissible,' said the Parson,' it is so on such a lake as this. You certainly never get a day's fair fishing here.'…" Tags: British Parliament, conversation, fauna, fishing, Henry Newland, lake, legislation, memoir, nineteenth century, otters, overfishing, upper lake "Eagles build in the islands of Lough Derg" "Eagles build in the islands of Lough Derg, in places apparently very accessible to man..." Tags: Badger (Meles meles), birdlife, Croaghbrack townland, curlews, eagle, Eagle's Rock Island, fauna, grouse, hares, islands, kites, lake, Lieutenant W. Lancey, ordnance survey, partridges, Royal Irish Academy, snipe, Templecarne, upper lake "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 Previous Page Page of 2 Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2