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Bobby describes Station Island

Bobby, attempting to make peace with Jenny as she performs the pilgrimage, discusses the power of Station Island

Tags: austerity, lake, literature, medievalism, monasticism, negative description, religiosity, remoteness, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, timelessness, twentieth century

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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