Browse Items (17 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: landscape Previous Page Page of 2 Sort by: Title Creator Date Added The ferry to Lough Derg Frontispiece etching of the waiting pilgrims and ferry boats to Station Island from the south shore of Lough Derg Tags: boating, crossing, crowds, ferry, landscape, pilgrimage, Station Island "We pray to ourself. The metal moon, unspent" The poetry of Dennis Devlin Tags: colour, Dennis Devlin, devotional activities, landscape, moon, mountains, night, poetry, prayer, twentieth century A description of Lough Derg and its topography “Lough Derg is a lonely sheet of water, extending from north to south, about six miles in length..." Tags: Caesar Otway, Daniel O'Connor, geography, geology, hills, hydrology, lake, landscape, mountains, nineteenth century, positive description, River Derg, topography, watershed The poteen shack "The only picturesque object I observed, as we rowed towards shore, was a little island in the centre of the Lough, on which there was a hut..." Tags: Caesar Otway, distillery, lake, landscape, nineteenth century, poteen, Protestant critique "I felt ashamed for human nature" "In a short time I arrived at the island, and as stepping out of the boat, I planted my foot on the rocks of this scene of human absurdity..." Tags: Caesar Otway, landscape, negative, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, St. Patrick, Station Island "Recited in the open, while facing the airy spaciousness of mountain, sky and water" "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..." Tags: Alice Curtayne, baptism, contemplation, crowds, environment, isolation, landscape, mountains, pilgrimage, pilgrims, repetition, retreat, St. Brigid's Cross, Station Island, stations, timelessness, twentieth century, weather "A landscape that is usually a monotonous monochrome of either brown or grey tints" "There is a lake called Lough Derg in County Donegal which has acquired extraordinary fame both in Christian history and in general literature..." Tags: Alice Curtayne, colour, description, emotion, Heather (Calluna vulgaris), isolation, landscape, mountains, Rome, rural landscape, twentieth century, vista Previous Page Page of 2 Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
