Browse Items (6 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: repetition Sort by: Title Creator Date Added "Recited in the open, while facing the airy spaciousness of mountain, sky and water" "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..." Tags: Alice Curtayne, baptism, contemplation, crowds, environment, isolation, landscape, mountains, pilgrimage, pilgrims, repetition, retreat, St. Brigid's Cross, Station Island, stations, timelessness, twentieth century, weather "Rip Van Winkle whose experience is reversed" Alice Curtayne describes how traveling to Station Island is like stepping back into the fifth century Tags: 'Celtic' monasticism, Alice Curtayne, fifth century, isolation, medievalism, nostalgia, peace, pilgrimage, remoteness, repetition, timelessness, twentieth century "Shaking the very stars with their fusillades of Paters" The repetitive power of an imagined Celtic Christian pilgrimage and prayer in the context of Irish national myth making Tags: 'Celtic' monasticism, Alice Curtayne, austerity, devotional activities, prayer, repetition, St. Brendan, St. Patrick, timelessness, twentieth century "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 very strangeness of the whole rite is like an old memory overlaid by time" "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..." Tags: Alice Curtayne, cultural memory, pilgrimage, pilgrims, repetition, Station Island, stations, timelessness, twentieth century Jenny completes the stations As Jenny completes the stations at the penitential beds, she reflects on the power of repetition and prayer and feels the elements Tags: embodied experience, emotion, literature, penitential beds, physical discomfort, place, repetition, Sean O'Faolain, setting, short stories, stations, twentieth century, water Output Formats atom, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, mobile-json, omeka-xml, rss2