"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
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English
Poetry chapbook
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Jenny completes the stations
Literature--Twentieth Century--Sean O'Faolain--Lough Derg
As Jenny completes the stations at the penitential beds, she reflects on the power of repetition and prayer and feels the elements
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. 26
Constable and Company, London
1981
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English
Collection of short stories
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"Shaking the very stars with their fusillades of Paters"
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne
The repetitive power of an imagined Celtic Christian pilgrimage and prayer in the context of Irish national myth making
Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981
Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 174
Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin
1944
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English
History
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"Recited in the open, while facing the airy spaciousness of mountain, sky and water"
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne
"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..."
Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981
Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 168
Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin
1944
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English
History
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"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
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"The very strangeness of the whole rite is like an old memory overlaid by time"
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne
"Many a pilgrim who goes to the Island for the first time remarks that the most surprising feature of the place is its obscure familiarity..."
Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981
Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 143
Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin
1944
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