Browse Items (121 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: nineteenth century Page of 13 Next Page Sort by: Title Creator Date Added "They told the marvellous incidents of the voyage to their listening friends" Knox stands on the rock to demonstrate his powers of deduction, an event which results in much storytelling upon the return to shore Tags: credulity, elitism, ferry house, Folklore, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, scientism, sectarianism, storytelling, Travelogue "A lonely and remote region" Knox describes Lough Derg as remote and obscure Tags: isolation, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, rural landscape, Travelogue "A miracle! - A miracle!" Knox criticises the superstitious hysteria for miraculous cures Tags: Catholicism, crowds, cure, devotional activities, James Spencer Knox, miracle, nineteenth century, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, 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 "A spreading hawthorn tree" Knox visits a lone tree on an island, a home of fairies in local folklore Tags: fairies, Folklore, Hawthorn, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Sidhe, Travelogue, tree "All was as still as death" Knox describes the deserted scene on Station Island Tags: emptiness, isolation, James Spencer Knox, landing, nineteenth century, pilgrim crossing, pilgrims, Protestant critique, Travelogue, women's history "An anecdote of the bard Carolan" Anecdotes about the pilgrimage to Saint Patrick's Purgatory Tags: fiction, Lady Sydney Morgan, letters, nineteenth century, pilgrimage "An incredible quantity of rags" Knox describes the scattered bloodied rags showing traces of the bodily rigours of the pilgrimage Tags: austerity, embodied experience, injury, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, penitential beds, Protestant critique, rags, Travelogue "Fare thee well, Lough Derg" Pilgrims ready to leave the Ferry House at Lough Derg Tags: carriage, departure, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, Robert French, Station Island, transportation, William Lawrence "He had swallowed up a very wicked man" Knox asks questions about the monster, which appears to devour sinners but largely emerges just above the water Tags: elitism, James Spencer Knox, mentalities, morality, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, sacrifice, sectarianism, superstition, Travelogue Page of 13 Next Page Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2