"Tradition, when jealously guarded and carefully handed down is a reliable source of information"

Dublin Core

Title

"Tradition, when jealously guarded and carefully handed down is a reliable source of information"

Subject

Lough Derg--Folklore--Oral History--Memory

Description

"With the destruction of the buildings in Lough Derg and the expulsion of the Franciscans in 1632, all the records of its glorious part were also destroyed..."

Creator

Eugene O'Callaghan

Source

Intro, by Eugene O'Callaghan, in Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. ix-x

Publisher

Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin

Date

1944

Rights

Citation for the purposes of criticism

Format

Monograph

Language

English

Type

History

Identifier

DD_0111

Coverage

54.6083, -7.8714

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Text

"With the destruction of the buildings in Lough Derg and the expulsion of the Franciscans in 1632, all the records of its glorious part were also destroyed. The result is that the historian has to rely for many important facts on the living voice of tradition. Tradition, when jealously guarded and carefully handed down is a reliable source of information. Lough Derg being an integral part of the Irish Church was, like the Church, submitted to all the calumnities and persecutions that could be devised by the enemies of our Holy Faith: but like the Church it has emerged triumphantly from the prolongued night of sorrow and suffering, and we find it to-day more vigorous, more promising, more popularly known than it was at any time of its history."

Original Format

Monograph

Collection

Citation

Eugene O'Callaghan, “"Tradition, when jealously guarded and carefully handed down is a reliable source of information",” Digital Derg: A Deep Map, accessed March 29, 2024, https://digitalderg.eu/items/show/128.

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