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Fishing in the Upper Lake

"There was at first quite success enough to test the goodness of the extempore flies, and though few fish of much more than a pound weight were taken, and those of a dull brown, out-of-season sort of character…"

Tags: boating, catch, fishing, fly fishing, Henry Newland, islands, memoir, nineteenth century, upper lake

Portuguese portolan chart of Ireland

A portolan chart of Europe by Grazioso Benincasa, showing the Aegean

Tags: British Library, cartography, fifteenth century, Grazioso Benincasa, islands, purgatory

View of Station Island from east shore

View across lake from east including Friars' and Station Islands, including rock formations and shore

Tags: east shore, Friars' Island, islands, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, Robert French, Station Island, vista, William Lawrence

"The little islands of Pan held in the crooked elbow of the lake"

The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941

Tags: County Donegal, distraction, embodied experience, islands, location, miracle, mountains, Patrick Kavanagh, penance, poetry, poverty, remoteness, repetition, rural landscape, spiritual experience, twentieth century, vista

"The green islands that were his morning hope
and his evening despair"

The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941

Tags: contemplation, inner landscape, islands, Jansenism, lake, landscape, Patrick Kavanagh, poetry, redemption, twentieth century, vista, water

"I insisted that they should take me to an island"

Knox wishes to visit an island in the upper lake

Tags: boating, boatmen, elitism, islands, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Travelogue, upper lake

A Coloured Map of Great Britain and Ireland; Drawn on Vellum, in the period 1534-1546

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A map of the British Isles dating from the period 1534-46 and by an unknown draughtsman.

Tags: British Library, cartography, Ireland, islands, lake, Map, purgatory, sixteenth century, Ulster

Map of the British Isles f. D1v

This is a map of the British Isles. It is a wood cut and is by the Venetian Pietro Coppo.

Tags: cartography, engraving, Ireland, islands, Map, Pietro Coppo, purgatory, sixteenth century, woodcut

"Two islands which have made it famous"

An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim.

Tags: description, history, Irish Monthly, islands, pilgrimage, purgatory, Station Island, suppression

Letter, James Hamilton Jnr, Strabane, Co. Tyrone, to [Marquess of Abercorn, London]

A report of the 55th Regiment displacing a group of entrenched squatters upon an island in Lough Derg for which they refuse to pay rent.

Tags: eighteenth century, Glaslough, islands, James Hamilton Jr, Leslie family, Lough Derg, military intervention, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, regiment, report squatters

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