Browse Items (31 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: negative description Previous Page Page of 4 Next Page Sort by: Title Creator Date Added Templecarn is a "barren subject" "The author of the following brief sketch, on first receiving a copy of the statistical queries, was for a considerable time in doubt whether to forward any answer to the inquiries proposed..." Tags: agriculture, barrenness, commerce, dryness, isolation, Lieutenant W. Lancey, manufacturing, negative description, North West Farming Society, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, potential, Royal Irish Academy, rural landscape, Templecarne, Termon Magrath "A mere rock" An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim. Tags: aesthetics, description, Irish Monthly, moorland, mountains, negative description, pilgrimage, purgatory, sheep, Station Island Feijoo's critique of Purgatory An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim. Tags: Augustinians, description, disputation, disrepute, Feijoo, Irish Monthly, monasticism, negative description, pilgrimage, polemic, purgatory, St. Patrick, Station Island, treatise "They come to Lough Derg to fast and pray and beg" The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941 Tags: 1940s, desperation, negative description, Patrick Kavanagh, pilgrimage, poetry, poverty, social commentary, twentieth century "Their hands push closed the doors that God holds open" The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941 Tags: class, devotion, inner landscape, Irish identity, laxity, negative description, Patrick Kavanagh, pilgrimage, poetry, social commentary, twentieth century "For this is Lough Derg, St. Patrick’s Purgatory" The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941 Tags: class, isolation, laxity, negative description, Patrick Kavanagh, poetry, rural landscape, social commentary, twentieth century "The Mouth of a Horrible Cave" "SCENE XVIII. A REMOTE PART OF THE MOUNTAIN WITH THE MOUTH OF A HORRIBLE CAVE..." Tags: birdlife, grimness, mountains, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age "Tempt the lake's dark wave" Luis approaches Purgatory and meets Polonia Tags: grimness, mountains, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age "An easy passage may be found" "This mighty mountain, rock bestrown, Full well the dreaded secret knows; But no one to its centre goes By any path o'er land alone..." Tags: grimness, mountains, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age "A coffin doth the bark appear" "POLONIA. No one accompanied can brave The terrors of this gloomy lake..." Tags: grimness, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age Previous Page Page of 4 Next Page Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
