Browse Items (75 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: twentieth century Previous Page Page of 8 Next Page Sort by: Title Creator Date Added "They come to Lough Derg to fast and pray and beg" The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941 Tags: 1940s, desperation, negative description, Patrick Kavanagh, pilgrimage, poetry, poverty, social commentary, twentieth century The barriers of self As they drive away from Lough Derg in silence, Jenny reflects on her experience Tags: car journey, departure, identity, literature, revelations, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, subjectivity, twentieth century The Island's gift 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 Bobby describes Station Island Bobby, attempting to make peace with Jenny as she performs the pilgrimage, discusses the power of Station Island Tags: austerity, lake, literature, medievalism, monasticism, negative description, religiosity, remoteness, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, timelessness, twentieth century Jenny struggles with her emotions Jenny struggles with her sense of spirituality as she completes the circuits of the penitentian beds Tags: anguish, bogland, colour, discomfort, embodied experience, emotion, light, literature, mud, penitential beds, pilgrimage, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, smell, stations, subjectivity, twentieth century, water, weather, wetness Jenny completes the stations As Jenny completes the stations at the penitential beds, she reflects on the power of repetition and prayer and feels the elements Tags: embodied experience, emotion, literature, penitential beds, physical discomfort, place, repetition, Sean O'Faolain, setting, short stories, stations, twentieth century, water Jenny crosses to Station Island Jenny gets a sensory impression of the island as she approaches and encounters its contents and topography Tags: barefoot, boating, building, impressions, literature, penitential beds, pilgrims crossing, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, Station Island, twentieth century, weather, wetness The impression of Lough Derg on Jenny and Bobby Jenny discusses her expectations of the place compared to the reality and hopes that it will not be too commercialized, like Lourdes Tags: colour, commercialism, foam, greyness, impressions, literature, motion, negative description, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, twentieth century, water, waves, weather Lough Derg in the rain Jenny and Bobby arrive at Lough Derg in the rain and are greeted by the sight of the lake and the pilgrims waiting to cross Tags: boating, cattle, doubt, impressions, Irish identity, literature, negative description, pilgrim crossing, rain, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, St. Patrick, twentieth century, weather Bobby expresses his confusion Bobby expresses his confusion at the extravagant embodied devotion and extreme austerity of the pilgrimage to Lough Derg and that it exposes a side of Jenny that he has never seen before. Tags: car journey, confusion, Irish identity, literature, negative description, pilgrims, religiosity, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, twentieth century Previous Page Page of 8 Next Page Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2