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 "A miracle! - A miracle!" Knox criticises the superstitious hysteria for miraculous cures Tags: Catholicism, crowds, cure, devotional activities, James Spencer Knox, miracle, nineteenth century, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, Travelogue "A mountain-locked lake that is just as secluded to-day as when Saint Patrick was attracted to its solitude" A description of the timeless nature of Lough Derg, a window into the early days of Irish Christianity Tags: Alice Curtayne, beauty, Croaghbrack townland, mountains, sunrise, sunset, timelessness, twentieth century, view, view east, view west, vista "A noble Nitro Sulphurious Spa" An eighteenth-century treatise describing a trip from Dublin to Lough Derg Tags: County Fermanagh, River Termon, Spring Town Road, Springs "A rock, which, rising to the surface of the water, the breeze had exposed" Knox reveals that the "serpent" is a rock Tags: debunking, elitism, James Spencer Knox, negative description, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, scientism, superstition, Travelogue "A spreading hawthorn tree" Knox visits a lone tree on an island, a home of fairies in local folklore Tags: fairies, Folklore, Hawthorn, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Sidhe, Travelogue, tree "A very strange Story hath been invented" A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general. Tags: Caoranach, cattle, eighteenth century, etymology, Fair Lake, Fenian Cycle, Fionn mac Cumhaill, giants, imagination, John Richardson, legend, myth, Protestant critique, Red Lake, superstition "All around it is the glint and stir of water" "Many pilgrims surveying the crowds during the night vigil promise themselves that, on their following night of freedom, they will look down from their cubicle windows at the fascination of the scene, when the people emerge and group themselves in… Tags: Alice Curtayne, Basilica, breeze, crowds, darkness, environment, illusion, lake, lights, motion, night vigil, ocean, pilgrimage, pilgrims, sound, Station Island, stations, twentieth century, view, vista, water, wind "All was as still as death" Knox describes the deserted scene on Station Island Tags: emptiness, isolation, James Spencer Knox, landing, nineteenth century, pilgrim crossing, pilgrims, Protestant critique, Travelogue, women's history "An anecdote of the bard Carolan" Anecdotes about the pilgrimage to Saint Patrick's Purgatory Tags: fiction, Lady Sydney Morgan, letters, nineteenth century, pilgrimage "An easy passage may be found" "This mighty mountain, rock bestrown, Full well the dreaded secret knows; But no one to its centre goes By any path o'er land alone..." Tags: grimness, mountains, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age Previous Page Page of 62 Next Page Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
