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"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

"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

"The lake waves caught the concrete stilts of the Basilica"

The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941

Tags: Basilica, embodied experience, foundations, lake, Patrick Kavanagh, poetry, sadness, twentieth century, water, waves

"The little islands of Pan held in the crooked elbow of the lake"

The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941

Tags: County Donegal, distraction, embodied experience, islands, location, miracle, mountains, Patrick Kavanagh, penance, poetry, poverty, remoteness, repetition, rural landscape, spiritual experience, twentieth century, vista

"The middle of the island looked like the memory Of some village evicted by the Famine"

The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941

Tags: Irish Famine, material traces, memory, Patrick Kavanagh, poetry, ruins, social commentary, survivals, twentieth century

"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

"The silver strands of the individual sometimes show"

The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941

Tags: colour, embodied experience, Patrick Kavanagh, poetry, spiritual experience, subjectivity, twentieth century

"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

"Their hands push closed the doors that God holds open"

The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941

Tags: class, devotion, inner landscape, Irish identity, laxity, negative description, Patrick Kavanagh, pilgrimage, poetry, social commentary, twentieth century

"They come to Lough Derg to fast and pray and beg"

The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941

Tags: 1940s, desperation, negative description, Patrick Kavanagh, pilgrimage, poetry, poverty, social commentary, twentieth century

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