Browse Items (13 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: mythology Previous Page Page of 2 Sort by: Title Creator Date Added The Island of Swimmers "There is on the cliff of Cruachan looking out on the sea and the Western sun a very deep cave exhaling icy blasts all the time..." Tags: banishment, Croagh Patrick, demons, Folklore, Isle of Demons, Isle of Swimmers, myth, mythology, origin of purgatory, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick How the demons came to Lough Derg "Some of the evil spirits settled on the Island of Swimmers to which they gave the name of demons. The demonaic island in truth is girded by an inland lake..." Tags: banishment, Croagh Patrick, demons, Folklore, Isle of Demons, Isle of Swimmers, myth, mythology, origin of purgatory, Shane Leslie, St. Dabheoc, St. Patrick, Station Island "The water, the water of the seas and of lakes and of mist and rain, has all but made the Irish after its image" Yeats' reflection on the affinity for bodies of water within the Irish poetic imagination and psyche Tags: Folklore, Irish identity, mythology, religion, W. B. Yeats, water Previous Page Page of 2 Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
