Browse Items (31 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: negative description Page of 4 Next Page Sort by: Title Creator Date Added "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 "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 "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 "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 "Fainting heart and failing eye, Aching head and footstep weary" "Fainting heart and failing eye, Aching head and footstep weary ! Courage, for the Lake is night There beyond the hilltop dreary..." Tags: approach, emotion, hills, lake, negative description, poetry, Shane Leslie, vision "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 "I am an abyss of crimes" "LUIS. Father, if my name I told, I'm afraid that swiftly flying, With a terror uncontrolled..." Tags: grimness, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age "In nine cases out of ten, the legend is simply an attempt made by an unlettered, but imaginative people, to account for natural appearances by supernatural agency" A description of the power given to unexplained natural phenomena in Irish folklore, and the character of the storytellers Tags: colonialism, conversation, debate, dispute, fishing, Folklore, Henry Newland, Irish identity, memoir, mythology, negative description, nineteenth century, superstition, upper lake "One of the loneliest places on earth" "[Lough Derg] is one of the loneliest places on earth. Its boulder-strewn shores, thirteen miles in circumference, seem to have retained all their original wildness..." Tags: agriculture, Alice Curtayne, Birch (Betula spp.), forest, Heather (Calluna vulgaris), hills, isolation, larch, loneliness, negative description, reforestation, rural landscape, stones, trees, twentieth century, underdevelopment "See ye not here this rock some power secureth" "SCENE XIX. POLONIA. — THE SAME..." Tags: grimness, hills, mountains, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age Page of 4 Next Page Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
