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  • Tags: timelessness

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

"Most pilgrims develop for this rocky island and its harsh routine an affection that really defies explanation..."

"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..."

Alice Curtayne describes how traveling to Station Island is like stepping back into the fifth century

The repetitive power of an imagined Celtic Christian pilgrimage and prayer in the context of Irish national myth making
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