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The boatmen describes the "wine" of Purgatory

An account of the religious history of Lough Derg for the traveller.

Tags: austerity, boatmen, drinking, interview, J. B. Doyle, nineteenth century, pilgrimage, rain, weather, wine

"The lake itself changes its wonted blue into a dull brown colour"

Knox observes a change in the weather

Tags: colour, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Travelogue, water, waves, weather

"I had long experienced extreme anxiety to visit"

Knox describes the circumstances of his arrival

Tags: James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, penitential beds, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, rain, Station Island, Travelogue, weather

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 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

"Shades of evening were adding solemnity to the landscape"

"By this time there began to be a stir among the boatmen, the sun had been for some while under the horizon, and the shades of evening were adding solemnity to the landscape…"

Tags: boating, fishing, fly fishing, Henry Newland, memoir, night, nineteenth century, sunset, weather

The March of the Dead Maguires

An account of Lough Derg folklore on a fishing trip, explaining the strange circular currents of the lake in supernatural terms

Tags: fishing, Folklore, ghosts, Henry Newland, lake, Maguire family, memoir, mythology, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, Station Island, supernatural, water, weather

Becalmed on the Lake

"But the breeze gradually dropped. Large splashes of calm, glazy-looking water appeared here and there, spreading by little and little over the whole surface, while the rises became more and more infrequent, and, before a dozen fish had been caught,…

Tags: fishing, fly fishing, Henry Newland, isolation, memoir, nineteenth century, remoteness, tranquility, upper lake, weather

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