Browse Items (27 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: poetry Page of 3 Next Page Sort by: Title Creator Date Added "Lough Derg" by Thomas D'Arcy McGee "In a girdle of green, heathy hills, In song-famed Donegal, An islet stands in a lonely lake, (A coffin in a pall)..." Tags: barefoot, death, environment, history, nature, pilgrimage, poetry, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, tradition "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 "That's the Red Lake unless I mistake" "Now it seems there's a place they call Purgat're, so I must write it, my verse not admitting the O. But as for the venue I vow I'm perplext To say it's in this world or if in the next, Or whether in both for 'tis very well known That St Patrick at… Tags: description, doggerel, humour, lake, poetry, purgatory, Shane Leslie, Station Island, Thomas Ingoldsby "A clear barometer" An extract from Seamus Heaney's poem 'Station Island' Tags: concentration, pilgrimage, poetry, Rome, Seamus Heaney, Station Island, water, water station "Towards the bottle-green, still / Shade of an oak" An extract from Seamus Heaney's poem 'Station Island' Tags: Basilica, imagination, memory, oak tree, place, poetry, recollection, Seamus Heaney, Station Island "The turnips were a-sowing in the fields around Pettigo" The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941 Tags: 1940s, commentary, context, departure, Patrick Kavanagh, Pettigo, poetry, train, twentieth century "The green islands that were his morning hope and his evening despair" The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941 Tags: contemplation, inner landscape, islands, Jansenism, lake, landscape, Patrick Kavanagh, poetry, redemption, twentieth century, vista, water "Three boatloads of Dublin’s unemployed came in" The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941 Tags: devotion, Dublin, Patrick Kavanagh, pilgrimage, poetry, poverty, social commentary, twentieth century, unemployment "The penance wheel turned round again" The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941 Tags: boating, departure, Fare Thee Well Lough Derg, Patrick Kavanagh, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage, poetry, twentieth century "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 Page of 3 Next Page Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
