Browse Items (2 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: lichen Sort by: Title Creator Date Added "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 "You will find instead only stumps, bumps, and conquering armies of weeds, cruel in their strength" "Do not visit Saints' Island with expectation of finding carved stones, a clear ground plan of ancient buildings, or examples of early Christian masonry..." Tags: Alice Curtayne, bramble, cultural memory, cultural trauma, destruction of built heritage, disappointment, inaccessibility, isolation, John O'Donovan, lichen, monasticism, negative description, nostalgia, overgrown, ruins, sadness, twentieth century, weeds Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2