Browse Items (616 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Previous Page Page of 62 Next Page Sort by: Title Creator Date Added "Two islands which have made it famous" An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim. Tags: description, history, Irish Monthly, islands, pilgrimage, purgatory, Station Island, suppression "Unconcernedly the Easter sunshine poured down on that scene of desertion and decay" "The land [of Saints' Island] was cultivated at one time. The marks of the furrows were clearly to be seen at the early season of which I speak..." Tags: agriculture, Alice Curtayne, building, decay, easter, fauna, flora, isolation, lichen, monastery, moss, overgrown, ruins, Saints Island, twentieth century, weeds "Water withers from the oars" The poetry of Dennis Devlin Tags: boating, Dennis Devlin, materiality, pilgrim crossing, poetry, social commentary, twentieth century, water, waves "We arrived at Dublin where we embarked to cross to England" 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 "We left the Island with dry skies but still carrying our fast with us" "Then, with hearts refreshed, we turned to accomplish the three remaining Stations..." Tags: boating, Catholic journalism, dryness, hills, Leslie family, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage, pilgrims, Rome, Shane Leslie, The Tablet, timelessness, twentieth century, weather "We passed over level ground through country pleasing enough to the eye" An sixteenth-century letter describing a trip to Lough Derg Tags: Clogher, Francesco Chiericati, Isabella d'Este Gonzaga, itinerary, pilgrimage, purgatory, sixteenth century, Travelogue "We pray to ourself. The metal moon, unspent" The poetry of Dennis Devlin Tags: colour, Dennis Devlin, devotional activities, landscape, moon, mountains, night, poetry, prayer, twentieth century "We returned by the road to king Ó Néill who received us very well and had great joy" 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 "We seemed to stand in a dim place where two worlds meet" "With the fall of night the world slipped away. We seemed to stand in a dim place where two worlds meet. At intervals we walked into the misty starlight and stamped a little warmth into our feet..." Tags: aesthetics, Catholic journalism, cold, Leslie family, light, mist, pilgrimage, pilgrims, Shane Leslie, sound, Station Island, The Tablet, twentieth century, wather "What we saw was the great serpent or fish" Knox describes the fear of his Irish boatmen at the appearance of a lake monster, which he sees as a rock just above the waterline Tags: elitism, Folklore, James Spencer Knox, lake, monster, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, rock, serpent, superstition, Travelogue Previous Page Page of 62 Next Page Output Formats atom, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, mobile-json, omeka-xml, rss2
