Browse Items (242 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: pilgrimage Page of 25 Next Page Sort by: Title Creator Date Added "A boy was standing like a ballet dancer poised on the rock" The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941 Tags: County Donegal, distraction, imagery, landscape, Patrick Kavanagh, pilgrimage, poetry, rural landscape, St. Patrick's Cross, twentieth century, vista "A clear barometer" An extract from Seamus Heaney's poem 'Station Island' Tags: concentration, pilgrimage, poetry, Rome, Seamus Heaney, Station Island, water, water station "A huge quarry" An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim. Tags: approach, bogland, commercialism, crossing, description, Irish Monthly, pilgrimage, purgatory, road, Station Island, vista, walk "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 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 "All around it is the glint and stir of water" "Many pilgrims surveying the crowds during the night vigil promise themselves that, on their following night of freedom, they will look down from their cubicle windows at the fascination of the scene, when the people emerge and group themselves in… Tags: Alice Curtayne, Basilica, breeze, crowds, darkness, environment, illusion, lake, lights, motion, night vigil, ocean, pilgrimage, pilgrims, sound, Station Island, stations, twentieth century, view, vista, water, wind "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 Excursion into the Fifth Century" The opening paragraph's of Alice Curtayne's 1932 pamphlet about Lough Derg Tags: 1930s, Alice Curtayne, Catholicism, Irish Free State, National Identity, pilgrimage, twentieth century "And out of there I crossed the sea" A famous account of a 1398 visit by Viscount Ramon de Perellós to Saint Patrick's Purgatory Tags: fourteenth century, itinerary, pilgrimage, purgatory, Ramon De Perellós, Travelogue "And there I embarked and crossed to Calais" A famous account of a 1398 visit by Viscount Ramon de Perellós to Saint Patrick's Purgatory Tags: Avignon, Calais, fourteenth century, itinerary, pilgrimage, purgatory, Ramon De Perellós, Travelogue Page of 25 Next Page Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2