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 The impression of Lough Derg on Jenny and Bobby Jenny discusses her expectations of the place compared to the reality and hopes that it will not be too commercialized, like Lourdes Tags: colour, commercialism, foam, greyness, impressions, literature, motion, negative description, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, twentieth century, water, waves, weather 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 "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 "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 "A rock, which, rising to the surface of the water, the breeze had exposed" Knox reveals that the "serpent" is a rock Tags: debunking, elitism, James Spencer Knox, negative description, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, scientism, superstition, Travelogue "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 "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 Previous Page Page of 4 Next Page Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
