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"So ended my pilgrimage to Lough Derg"

Knox advises Protestant travellers to visit Loug Derg and see Catholic folly

Tags: Catholic Church, elitism, James Spencer Knox, negative description, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Protestantism, recommendations, sectarianism, Travelogue

"So long as the Church of Rome finds dupes"

Knox reflects on the cause of the "fraud" of miracles

Tags: Catholic Church, James Spencer Knox, miracle, negative description, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Protestantism, Rome, sectarianism, Travelogue

"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

"The dark place reserved for sin"

"KING. What would'st thou?

PATRICK. Come with me..."

Tags: grimness, miracle, mountains, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age

"The fatal refuge of the frozen night"

"[POLONIA:] This, then, by mournful cypress trees surrounded,
Between the lips of rocks at either side,
Reveals a monstrous neck of length unbounded..."

Tags: grimness, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age

"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

"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

"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

"Without doubt to-day some pilgrim Roweth to this island shore."

"SCENE VIII.
THE ENTRANCE OF A CONVENT — AT THE END THE CAVE OF PATRICK..."

Tags: birdlife, grimness, mountains, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age

"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

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