Browse Items (15 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: timelessness Previous Page Page of 2 Sort by: Title Creator Date Added "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 "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 "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 "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 "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 Previous Page Page of 2 Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2