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"Primeval magic among the trees"

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

Tags: County Donegal, dawn, distraction, farming, landscape, mountains, Patrick Kavanagh, poetry, remoteness, renewal, revelation, rural landscape, twentieth century

Jenny awakes to feel the gift of Station Island: a sense of equality in bodily experience

Tags: austerity, embodied experience, emotion, literature, pilgrimage, remoteness, revelation, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, sleep, timelessness, twentieth century, women's dormitory

"Down below [Dabheoc's Seat], Station Island rose up in imperial grandeur against its background of low hills..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, Basilica, colour landscape, hills, illusion, Isle of Patmos, light vision, miracle, revelation, St. Dabheoc, St. Dabheoc's Seat, St. John, Station Island, twentieth century, vista

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