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 "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 "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 The Drowning of the Boat "Being far from the ocean when the stormy wind rose..." Tags: 1795 disaster, boating, disaster, drowning, Friars' Island, local history, poetry, Station Island "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 "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 "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 "For this is Lough Derg, St. Patrick’s Purgatory" The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941 Tags: class, isolation, laxity, negative description, Patrick Kavanagh, poetry, rural landscape, social commentary, twentieth century "Women and men in bare feet turn again" The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941 Tags: discomfort, embodied experience, Patrick Kavanagh, penitential beds, pilgrimage, poetry, poverty, salvation, twentieth century "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 "Beside St. Brigid’s Cross" The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941 Tags: medievalism, Patrick Kavanagh, poetry, queue, St. Brigid's Cross, timelessness, twentieth century Page of 3 Next Page Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
