"Surrounded by Wild and Barren Mountains"
Lough Derg--Protestant critique--Treatise--Purgatory
A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general.
John Richardson, 1664-1747
The Great Folly, superstition and idolatry of Pilgrimages in Ireland, especialy of that to St. Patrick's Purgatory: together with an account of the loss that the publick sustaineth thereby, truly and impartially represented, p. 1
J. Hyde, Dublin
1727
Digitised by Collections numérisées - Université de Rennes 2
Public domain
Monograph
English
Religious treatise
DD_0461
54.6083, -7.8714
"Primeval magic among the trees"
Poetry--Twentieth Century--Patrick Kavanagh--Lough Derg
The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941
Patrick Kavanagh, 1904-1967
Kavanagh, Patrick, Lough Derg, p. 24
Goldsmith Press, The Curragh, Ireland
1978
Citation for the purposes of criticism
Published poem
English
Poetry chapbook
DD_0253
54.6083, -7.8714
"The little islands of Pan held in the crooked elbow of the lake"
Poetry--Twentieth Century--Patrick Kavanagh--Lough Derg
The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941
Patrick Kavanagh, 1904-1967
Kavanagh, Patrick, Lough Derg, p. 19
Goldsmith Press, The Curragh, Ireland
1978
Citation for the purposes of criticism
Published poem
English
Poetry chapbook
DD_0252
54.608913,-7.870977
The Island's gift
Literature--Twentieth Century--Sean O'Faolain--Lough Derg
Jenny awakes to feel the gift of Station Island: a sense of equality in bodily experience
Sean O'Faolain, 1900-1991
The Lovers of the Lake', in The Collected Stories of Sean O'Faolain, Vol. 2, pp. 18-43, here p. 35
Constable and Company, London
1981
Citation for the purposes of criticism
Edited edition
English
Collection of short stories
DD_0242
54.608369,-7.871702
Bobby describes Station Island
Literature--Twentieth Century--Sean O'Faolain--Lough Derg
Bobby, attempting to make peace with Jenny as she performs the pilgrimage, discusses the power of Station Island
Sean O'Faolain, 1900-1991
The Lovers of the Lake', in The Collected Stories of Sean O'Faolain, Vol. 2, pp. 18-43, here p. 30
Constable and Company, London
1981
Citation for the purposes of criticism
Edited edition
English
Collection of short stories
DD_0241
54.608913,-7.870977
Becalmed on the Lake
Lough Derg--Henry Newland--Fishing--Wind
"But the breeze gradually dropped. Large splashes of calm, glazy-looking water appeared here and there, spreading by little and little over the whole surface, while the rises became more and more infrequent, and, before a dozen fish had been caught, ceased altogether..."
Henry Newland, 1804-1860
Newland, Henry, The Erne, Its Legends and Its Fly-Fishing, pp. 222-23
Chapman and Hall, London
1851
Digitised by Internet Archive, originally from University of California
Public domain
xiv, 395 p. plates. 20 cm
English
Fishing memoirs
DD_0182
54.620679, -7.902967
"Wild and gloomy loneliness"
Lough Derg--Henry Newland--Fishing--Scenery
"Lough Derg has certainly been well chosen as a spot of religious penitence and seclusion, for the character of its scenery harmonises well with such a feeling; it is that of wild and gloomy loneliness."
Henry Newland, 1804-1860
Newland, Henry, The Erne, Its Legends and Its Fly-Fishing, p. 220
Chapman and Hall, London
1851
Digitised by Internet Archive, originally from University of California
Public domain
xiv, 395 p. plates. 20 cm
English
Fishing memoirs
DD_0179
54.631629,-7.862233
"Though my letters are wild as the mountains in which they were written"
Lough Derg--Ordnance Survey--Description--John O'Donovan
"Though my letters are wild as the mountains in which they were written, still do I feel myself very sober in thought, and exceedingly (excessive) in love with truth even to the prejudice of all national feelings…"
John O'Donovan, 1806-1861
Letter from John O'Donovan, Pettigoe, October 28th 1835, p. 242, O’Donovan, John, Ordnance Survey Letters, Donegal: Letters Containing Information Relative to the Antiquities of the County of Donegal Collected during the Progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1835, p. 120
Four Masters Press, Dublin
1835 [2000]
Transcribed and edited by Michael Herity, MRIA
Citation for the purposes of criticism
Edited edition of letters
English with Irish text in Celtic script
Ordnance Survey Letters
DD_0171
54.590453,-7.856407
The appearance of Lough Derg
Lough Derg--Ordnance Survey--Description--Lieutenant Lancey
"Lough Derg is a large sheet of water surrounded by black bogs relieved only by few detached cabins and patches of cultivation and its groups of islands..."
Lieutenant W. Lancey, 1835
Parish of Templecarn, in Institute of Irish Studies, and Royal Irish Academy, Parishes of County Donegal / Edited by Angélique Day and Patrick McWilliams. II 1835-6, Mid, West and South Donegal., Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland; v.39, p. 161
Institute of Irish Studies in association with The Royal Irish Academy, Belfast
1835-6 [1997]
Citation for the purposes of criticism
Monograph
English
Ordnance survey memoir
DD_0161
54.616218, -7.876212
"Rip Van Winkle whose experience is reversed"
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne
Alice Curtayne describes how traveling to Station Island is like stepping back into the fifth century
Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981
Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 167
Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin
1944
Citation for the purposes of criticism
Monograph
English
History
DD_0144
54.6083, -7.8714