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Penitential beds and view of lake

View of waters past Sanctuary and penitential beds

Tags: Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, penitential beds, Photographs, pilgrims, Robert French, Station Island, vista, water, water station, William Lawrence

Station Island, View from Ferry House

An account of the religious history of Lough Derg for the traveller.

Tags: ferry house, J. B. Doyle, nineteenth century, pilgrims, sketch, Station Island, vista, water

"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

"The Church never relinquished her hold upon the one grey rock"

"Throughout all the perversions and confiscations [of the Reformation], however, the Church never relinquished her hold upon the one grey rock which then was Station Island..."

Tags: Catholic Church, Clogher, Diocese of Clogher, law, Leslie family, Margaret Gibbons, nineteenth century, ownership, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage, pilgrims, Reformation, Sir John Leslie, Station Island, suppression

The ancient pilgrimage

An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim.

Tags: austerity, deprivation, description, hardship, Irish Monthly, penitential beds, pilgrimage, pilgrims, purgatory, Station Island, stations

Bobby expresses his confusion

Bobby expresses his confusion at the extravagant embodied devotion and extreme austerity of the pilgrimage to Lough Derg and that it exposes a side of Jenny that he has never seen before.

Tags: car journey, confusion, Irish identity, literature, negative description, pilgrims, religiosity, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, twentieth century

A visit in the reign of Henry VIII

"The record of many others who followed the same perilous quest survives. The Sire de Beaujeu, Louis de Sue, Louis of France, Malatesta of Hungary, and, not least, there came in the reign of King Henry VIII. the Cardinal Legate to England, who made a…

Tags: baptism, Celtic revival, Clogher, English visitors, famous visitors, immersion, mythology, pilgrims, romance, Shane Leslie, sixteenth century, St. Patrick, water

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