"A melancholy silence shrouded the scene"

"A melancholy silence shrouded the scene"

Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne

"I remember a strange Easter Sunday spent on Saints' Island, not indeed with any hope of finding archaeological confirmation of its history, but simply in communing with the past..."

Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981

Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 23

Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin

1944

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"I remember a strange Easter Sunday spent on Saints' Island, not indeed with any hope of finding archaeological confirmation of its history, but simply in communing with the past. Neither the Celtic monks, direct heirs to Dabheoc, nor the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine, who succeeded them, celebrated the Resurrection there that morning. No Alleluias were sung in Paschal gladness, there were no tiers of candles, nor banks of bright flowers. A melancholy silence shrouded the scene, broken only by the occasional mournful cries of aquatic birds. It was Easter Sunday only for furtive wild animals, heedless winds, rank vegetation, and the enormous pillows of moss characteristic of this sward."

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