Browse Items · Digital Derg: A Deep Map

"Rolling, tawny bogland framed the blue water"

"Turning back from [St. Dabheoc's Seat] to look down on Lough Derg, the aerial view of Station Island is exquisite..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, birdlife, bogland, climate, colour, isolation, lake, larks, quaking bog, silence, St. Dabheoc's Seat, Station Island, twentieth century, view north, vista, weather, wind

"Saint Patrick had the reports set down in writing"

A famous account of a 1398 visit by Viscount Ramon de Perellós to Saint Patrick's Purgatory

Tags: fourteenth century, itinerary, pilgrimage, purgatory, Ramon De Perellós, Travelogue

"Salt fish, hides, cattle, and Irish hobby-horses"

An sixteenth-century letter describing a trip to Lough Derg

Tags: Francesco Chiericati, Isabella d'Este Gonzaga, itinerary, pilgrimage, purgatory, sixteenth century, Travelogue

"See ye not here this rock some power secureth"

"SCENE XIX.
POLONIA. — THE SAME..."

Tags: grimness, hills, mountains, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age

"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

"Shaking the very stars with their fusillades of Paters"

The repetitive power of an imagined Celtic Christian pilgrimage and prayer in the context of Irish national myth making

Tags: 'Celtic' monasticism, Alice Curtayne, austerity, devotional activities, prayer, repetition, St. Brendan, St. Patrick, timelessness, twentieth century

"So ended my pilgrimage to Lough Derg"

Knox advises Protestant travellers to visit Loug Derg and see Catholic folly

Tags: Catholic Church, elitism, James Spencer Knox, negative description, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Protestantism, recommendations, sectarianism, Travelogue

"So far shalt thou go, and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed"

Knox considers the agriculture surrounding Lough Derg as a spiritual parable

Tags: Catholic Church, exegesis, James Spencer Knox, landscape, morality, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, scripture, sectarianism, sermon, theology, Travelogue

"So long as the Church of Rome finds dupes"

Knox reflects on the cause of the "fraud" of miracles

Tags: Catholic Church, James Spencer Knox, miracle, negative description, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Protestantism, Rome, sectarianism, Travelogue

"Some dark spot in the midst of flowing silver"

A description of the lake taken from O'Connor's account of an 1836 story in the Dublin Penny Journal Count Raymond de Perilleaux's 1397 journey to the Purgatory

Tags: aesthetics, barrenness, beech, Daniel O'Connor, fourteenth century, hills, lake, lake crossing, medieval, mountains, oak, Raymond de Pereilleux, silver, trees, Ugolino

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