Browse Items (75 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: twentieth century Page of 8 Next Page Sort by: Title Creator Date Added The lake returns to the Diocese "In the year 1917 the final lawsuit took place, at the Quarter sessions in Donegal, before County Court Judge Cooke, K.C. ..." Tags: Catholic Church, Clogher, compromise, control, court case, Diocese of Clogher, lake, law, Leslie family, Margaret Gibbons, ownership, Sir John Leslie, Station Island, twentieth century, water The journey of five women returning to Ireland in 1922 "The adventure of a group of five women pilgrims [in 1922] were typical of the times." Tags: 1922, Alice Curtayne, Castlederg, civil war, County Fermanagh, County Tyrone, disruption, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Pettigo, pilgrimage, pilgrims, train, twentieth century, Victoria Bridge, women's history 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 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 The Franciscans "The Franciscans took up the charge of St. Patrick's Purgatory when it was the most persecuted and derided institution of the Irish Church..." Tags: Alice Curtayne, Catholicism, eighteenth century, Franciscans, neglect, penal times, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, purgatory, ruin, secret worship, seventeenth century, Station Island, suppression, 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 1795 disaster "The end of the eighteenth-century history of Lough Derg is sadly remembered because of a particularly bad boating accident..." Tags: 1795 disaster, accusation, Alice Curtayne, boating, disaster, drinking, drowning, eighteenth century, Friars' Island, malfeasance, pilgrim, pilgrim crossing, poteen, Station Island, twentieth century Templecarne: Patrick's first church? "…Tirechan says that Patrick founded a Church in Tirhugh. Where now is the location of that church?..." Tags: Alice Curtayne, ancient church, Barony of Tirhugh, building, fifth century, myth, ruins, speculation, St. Patrick, Templecarne, Templecarne Graveyard, twentieth century Seadavog Mountain "Dabheoc's name is commemorated, too, in Seadavog mountain, a low peak to the west of his Seat on the southern shore of the lake..." Tags: Alice Curtayne, Ballymacavany Townland, etymology, mountains, place name, Seeavog Townland, Seedavog Mountain, St. Dabheoc, St. Dabheoc's Seat, twentieth century Saints' island and its soils "The largest island in Lough Derg is Inishgoosk; it has no historical interest. The second largest island is Saints' Island, called St. Dabheoc's Island in early Christian times..." Tags: agriculture, Alice Curtayne, Augustinians, farming, monastery, monasticism, North West Farming Society, ruins, Saints' Island, soil, twentieth century Page of 8 Next Page Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
