Browse Items (5 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: scientism Sort by: Title Creator Date Added Interrogating the curse of St. Patrick "…The story is told that in ancient times Lough Derg abounded in salmon and salmon-trout, just the same as its next neighbour, Lough Erne..." Tags: Arctic Char (Salvelinus alpinus), Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar), Daniel O'Connor, eels, fishing, Folklore, John O'Donovan, mountains, Salmon, scientism, St. Patrick, trout, wildlife Oral history and facts A debate over the reliability of oral history, in which O'Donovan cites the heterogeneity of County Donegal local stories Tags: debate, empiricism, Folklore, John O'Donovan, letters, nineteenth century, Oral History, ordnance survey, reliability, religion, scientism, tradition The salmon of Lough Derg "There is one strange fact connected with this lake - no salmon come into it, though they come up to the very point where the River Derg escapes out of it…" Tags: Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar), empiricism, fauna, fishing, Folklore, John O'Donovan, letters, nineteenth century, ordnance survey, River Derg, Salmon, scientism, St. Patrick "A rock, which, rising to the surface of the water, the breeze had exposed" Knox reveals that the "serpent" is a rock Tags: debunking, elitism, James Spencer Knox, negative description, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, scientism, superstition, Travelogue "They told the marvellous incidents of the voyage to their listening friends" Knox stands on the rock to demonstrate his powers of deduction, an event which results in much storytelling upon the return to shore Tags: credulity, elitism, ferry house, Folklore, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, scientism, sectarianism, storytelling, Travelogue Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
