Browse Items (15 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: timelessness Page of 2 Next Page Sort by: Title Creator Date Added "Those trackless hills enfold the lake as though to hide it." "It is remarkable how completely the exterior world is shut out. Those trackless hills enfold the lake as though to hide it..." Tags: Alice Curtayne, barrenness, hills, isolation, lake, mountains, rhetoric, rural landscape, timelessness, tradition, twentieth century, water "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 "In going there they are answering the call for blood" "Most pilgrims develop for this rocky island and its harsh routine an affection that really defies explanation..." Tags: Alice Curtayne, blood, Catholicism, cultural memory, essentialism, ethnohistory, exile, familiarity, Irish identity, medievalism, nostalgia, pilgrimage, Station Island, timelessness, twentieth century "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 "A mountain-locked lake that is just as secluded to-day as when Saint Patrick was attracted to its solitude" A description of the timeless nature of Lough Derg, a window into the early days of Irish Christianity Tags: Alice Curtayne, beauty, Croaghbrack townland, mountains, sunrise, sunset, timelessness, twentieth century, view, view east, view west, vista "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 "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 "Low rocks, a few weasels, lake" The poetry of Dennis Devlin Tags: Dennis Devlin, fauna, isolation, poetry, religious identity, rocks, timelessness, topography, twentieth century, weasels "It was said stone dreams and animal sleeps and man is awake" The poetry of Dennis Devlin Tags: blood, Dennis Devlin, Druid, history, poetry, stone, timelessness, twentieth century "Monks in convents of coracles" The poetry of Dennis Devlin Tags: boating, Dennis Devlin, history, Irish history, medievalism, monasticism, pilgrimage, poetry, timelessness, twentieth century Page of 2 Next Page Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2