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 "Eagles build in the islands of Lough Derg" "Eagles build in the islands of Lough Derg, in places apparently very accessible to man..." Tags: Badger (Meles meles), birdlife, Croaghbrack townland, curlews, eagle, Eagle's Rock Island, fauna, grouse, hares, islands, kites, lake, Lieutenant W. Lancey, ordnance survey, partridges, Royal Irish Academy, snipe, Templecarne, upper lake "Encompassed with high barren Mountains of difficult Ascent" An eighteenth-century treatise describing a trip from Dublin to Lough Derg "Every Body knows how excessively the Irish are addicted to Pilgrimage" A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general. Tags: eighteenth century, John Richardson, penitential beds, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, Station Island "Fainting heart and failing eye, Aching head and footstep weary" "Fainting heart and failing eye, Aching head and footstep weary ! Courage, for the Lake is night There beyond the hilltop dreary..." Tags: approach, emotion, hills, lake, negative description, poetry, Shane Leslie, vision "Fare thee well, Lough Derg" Pilgrims ready to leave the Ferry House at Lough Derg Tags: carriage, departure, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, Robert French, Station Island, transportation, William Lawrence "Floating on some miracle raft" "Down below [Dabheoc's Seat], Station Island rose up in imperial grandeur against its background of low hills..." Tags: Alice Curtayne, Basilica, colour landscape, hills, illusion, Isle of Patmos, light vision, miracle, revelation, St. Dabheoc, St. Dabheoc's Seat, St. John, Station Island, twentieth century, vista "For nothing in the world would I abandon this journey" A famous account of a 1398 visit by Viscount Ramon de Perellós to Saint Patrick's Purgatory Tags: Calais, fourteenth century, itinerary, pilgrimage, purgatory, Ramon De Perellós, Travelogue "For this is Lough Derg, St. Patrick’s Purgatory" The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941 Tags: class, isolation, laxity, negative description, Patrick Kavanagh, poetry, rural landscape, social commentary, twentieth century "Foundations can scarcely now be traced" An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim. Tags: description, Irish Monthly, monastery, monasticism, pilgrimage, Purgatorial cave, purgatory, ruins, Saints' Island, Station Island "Full of robbers and rascals" An sixteenth-century letter describing a trip to Lough Derg Tags: Francesco Chiericati, Isabella d'Este Gonzaga, itinerary, pilgrimage, purgatory, sixteenth century, Travelogue Previous Page Page of 62 Next Page Output Formats atom, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, mobile-json, omeka-xml, rss2