Browse Items · Digital Derg: A Deep Map

"Recited in the open, while facing the airy spaciousness of mountain, sky and water"

"The repetition of the baptismal vow [before St. Brigid's Cross] is a reaching back again towards baptismal innocence and is the usual ritual of retreats..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, baptism, contemplation, crowds, environment, isolation, landscape, mountains, pilgrimage, pilgrims, repetition, retreat, St. Brigid's Cross, Station Island, stations, timelessness, twentieth century, weather

"The stones become doubly slippery and the whole slope acquires a slithery and greasy surface"

"The stone circles [of the Penitential Beds] are small. When this sanctuary was demolished in the seventeenth century the despoilers left only the rude foundation stones protruding from the soil..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, outcrops, penitential beds, pilgrimage, pilgrims, rain, rocks, slippery, Station Island, stations, stones, twentieth century, weather

"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

The Sanctuary, Station Island

Pilgrims waiting outside the Sanctuary on Station Island

Tags: Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrims, Robert French, sanctuary, Station Island, William Lawrence, women's history

The Landing, Station Island

The boats and pilgrims at the landing on Station Island

Tags: boating, landing, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrims, Robert French, Station Island, William Lawrence

Pilgrims arriving at Lough Derg

Pilgrims arriving at the Ferry House, Lough Derg

Tags: ferry house, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrims, Robert French, Station Island, transportation, William Lawrence

Pilgrims at the water station

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

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

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

"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

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