"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
Text Item Type Metadata
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.