Browse Items (616 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Page of 62 Next Page Sort by: Title Creator Date Added "They told the marvellous incidents of the voyage to their listening friends" Knox stands on the rock to demonstrate his powers of deduction, an event which results in much storytelling upon the return to shore Tags: credulity, elitism, ferry house, Folklore, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, scientism, sectarianism, storytelling, Travelogue "A boy was standing like a ballet dancer poised on the rock" The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941 Tags: County Donegal, distraction, imagery, landscape, Patrick Kavanagh, pilgrimage, poetry, rural landscape, St. Patrick's Cross, twentieth century, vista "A clear barometer" An extract from Seamus Heaney's poem 'Station Island' Tags: concentration, pilgrimage, poetry, Rome, Seamus Heaney, Station Island, water, water station "A coffin doth the bark appear" "POLONIA. No one accompanied can brave The terrors of this gloomy lake..." Tags: grimness, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age "A fantastic display of lightning which continued for nearly two hours" "Fourteen years passed [from 1918] before there is mention in the records of another such violent upheaval of the waters…" Tags: Alice Curtayne, lake, lightning, mountains, pilgrim crossing, sound, Station Island, storms, thunder, twentieth century, water, weather "A huge quarry" An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim. Tags: approach, bogland, commercialism, crossing, description, Irish Monthly, pilgrimage, purgatory, road, Station Island, vista, walk "A landscape that is usually a monotonous monochrome of either brown or grey tints" "There is a lake called Lough Derg in County Donegal which has acquired extraordinary fame both in Christian history and in general literature..." Tags: Alice Curtayne, colour, description, emotion, Heather (Calluna vulgaris), isolation, landscape, mountains, Rome, rural landscape, twentieth century, vista "A lonely and remote region" Knox describes Lough Derg as remote and obscure Tags: isolation, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, rural landscape, Travelogue "A melancholy silence shrouded the scene" "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..." Tags: 'Celtic' monasticism, Alice Curtayne, Augustinians, bird, cultural memory, cultural trauma, destruction of built heritage, easter, emotion, emptiness, fauna, nostalgia, overgrown, ruins, sadness, Saints' Island, silence, St. Dabheoc, St. Patrick, twentieth century, weather, weeds "A mere rock" An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim. Tags: aesthetics, description, Irish Monthly, moorland, mountains, negative description, pilgrimage, purgatory, sheep, Station Island Page of 62 Next Page Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2