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"I doubt whether [the boatmen] did not expect that some supernatural event would occur to chastise the rashness of my proceedings, and vindicate the veracity of tradition. In this pious aspiration they were disappointed, for both they and I reached the shore together in perfect safety. Scarcely had they landed when, with many a vehement gesture, and in the loudest strain of utterance, they told the marvellous incidents of the voyage to their listening friends, who on their part gave ear with breathless attention to a fable so indescribably absurd, that the habitual domination of inbred, and inculcated superstition, could alone endure for it even a patient hearing."
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Travelogues--James Spencer Knox--Lough Derg--Description
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Knox stands on the rock to demonstrate his powers of deduction, an event which results in much storytelling upon the return to shore
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James Spencer Knox, 1789-1862
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Pastoral Annals. By an Irish Clergyman [i.e. James S. Knox], pp. 392-93
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R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, London
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1840
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Digitised by Google, sponsored by Princeton Library
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DD_0283
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Lough Derg
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https://books.google.com.mm/books?id=kIIuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=lough%20derg&f=false
credulity
elitism
ferry house
Folklore
James Spencer Knox
nineteenth century
Protestant critique
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Travelogue
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“The rusty cross of St. Patrick had a dozen
Devotees clustered around it at four o’clock.
Bare knees were going round Saint Brendan’s Bed.
A boy was standing like a ballet dancer poised on the rock
Under the belfry; he stared over at Donegal
Where the white houses on the side of the hills
Popped up like mushrooms in September.
The sun was smiling on a thousand hayfields
That hour, and he must have thought Lough Derg
More unreasonable than ordinary stone.
Perhaps it was an iceberg
That he had glanced at on his journey from Japan.
But the iceberg filled a glass of water
And poured it to the honour of the sun.”
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"A boy was standing like a ballet dancer poised on the rock"
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Poetry--Twentieth Century--Patrick Kavanagh--Lough Derg
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The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941
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Patrick Kavanagh, 1904-1967
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Kavanagh, Patrick, Lough Derg, pp. 24-25
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Goldsmith Press, The Curragh, Ireland
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1978
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Published poem
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English
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54.609160,-7.871266
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DD_0254
County Donegal
distraction
imagery
landscape
Patrick Kavanagh
pilgrimage
poetry
rural landscape
St. Patrick's Cross
twentieth century
vista
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"I had come to the edge of the water,<br />soothed by just looking, idling over it<br />as if it were a clear barometer<br /><br />or a mirror, when his reflection<br />did not appear but I sensed a presence<br />entering into my concentration"
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"A clear barometer"
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Lough Derg--Station Island--Seamus Heaney--Poetry
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An extract from Seamus Heaney's poem 'Station Island'
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Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013
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Heaney, Seamus, 'Station Island', in Station Island collection, VII, p. 77
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Faber & Faber, London
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1984
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Poetry Collection
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English
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Poetry
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54.609062, -7.871015
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DD_0287
concentration
pilgrimage
poetry
Rome
Seamus Heaney
Station Island
water
water station
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"POLONIA. No one accompanied can brave
The terrors of this gloomy lake;
And so a skiff you needs must take,
And try alone the icy wave;
Being in that most trying strait
The absolute master of your acts and fate.
Come where within a secret cave
Beside the shore the boat doth lie,
And trusting in the Lord on high,
Embark upon the crystal wave
Of this remote lone inland sea.
LUIS. My life and all I have I place, O Lord! in Thee.
And so I trust me to the bark;
But, O my soul! what sight is here,
A coffin doth the bark appear;
And I upon the waters dark
Alone must cross the icy tide.
[He enters.]" (Act III, Scene VII)
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"A coffin doth the bark appear"
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Theatre--Seventeenth Century--Pedro Calderón de la Barca--Saint Patrick's Purgatory
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"POLONIA. No one accompanied can brave
The terrors of this gloomy lake..."
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Pedro Calderón de la Barca, 1600-1681
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Barca, Pedro Calderón de la, The Purgatory of St. Patrick, trans. by Denis Florence MacCarthy, Act III, Scene VII
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Henry S. King & Co., London
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1873
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Digitised for Project Gutenberg
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Collected Plays
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Spanish (English trans.)
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Play
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DD_0063
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54.6153, -7.8864
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http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6371
grimness
negative description
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
play
Spanish Golden Age
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Title
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Alice Curtayne
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Lough Derg--Irish Identity--Alice Curtayne--Pilgrim Imaginary
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James L. Smith
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Digital Derg: A Deep Map
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2021
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CC BY, sui generis database
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English
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Lough Derg
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"Fourteen years passed [from 1918] before there is mention in the records of another such violent upheaval of the waters… Five days later, in the evening, when all the pilgrims were landed, another furious storm broke out this time with a fantastic display of lightning which continued for nearly two hours, and a deafening barrage of thunder, reverberating through the mountains."
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"A fantastic display of lightning which continued for nearly two hours"
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Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne
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"Fourteen years passed [from 1918] before there is mention in the records of another such violent upheaval of the waters…"
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Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981
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Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 142
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Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin
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1944
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English
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54.6083, -7.8714
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DD_0140
Alice Curtayne
lake
lightning
mountains
pilgrim crossing
sound
Station Island
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twentieth century
water
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Title
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Shane Leslie
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Lough Derg--Irish Identity--Shane Leslie--Biography
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James L. Smith
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Digital Derg: A Deep Map
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2021
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CC BY, sui generis database
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Lough Derg
Ulster
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"Pettigoe, 'the honestest little town in all the North,' said a commercial traveller to me — snuggly nestles between three of those low, round, fertile hills so characteristic of Ulster scenery. The road thence runs nearly due north, for four miles, to Lough Derg. I started from the village early and walked to the lake. As you advance into Donegal, the lands looks colder and more barren, the houses grow less frequent, cultivation is confined to scanty patches of potatoes and oats that seemed in no hurry to ripen, even in mid-September. A little further on there are no houses to be seen, and moorland hills rise threateningly in advance, as if to bar the traveller's further progress. You have, however, all the way the companionship of a turbulent and tortuous stream, that plays some curious pranks in its downward journey from its home in the mountains — now running along the road, two or three times crossing it, then receding and disappearing, only to show its noisy and turbid waters a few moments afterwards. At length the traveller reaches the crest of the hill and the end of the road ; the remainder of the way, be he prince or peasant, he must trudge on foot through the mud to the margin of the lake. Sir John Leslie is land- lord, and not a bad one, they say, of all the ancient territory of Termon Dabeog, and receives £50 a year for permitting the pilgrims to be ferried over the lake — a beautiful remnant of our feudal land laws ; but, it seems, he will neither make the road to the lake's margin him- self nor permit the grand jury to do it, lest, I presume, it might interfere with his proprietary right in the ferry : so he puts on the crowd of benighted Papists who visit the place every summer the additional penance of walking a mile through the mud to the lake's margin."
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Title
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"A huge quarry"
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Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Magazine--Narrative
Description
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An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim.
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Matthew Russell, 1834-1912
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M.H. Gill & Son, Dublin
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1878
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Sponsored and digitised by Google, Princeton University Library
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English
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DD_0432
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54.5494, -7.8320
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https://archive.org/details/irishmonthlyvol01unkngoog/page/n5
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'Lough Derg: By a Recent Pilgrim', The Irish Monthly: A Magazine of General Literature Sixth Yearly Volume, p.22
approach
bogland
commercialism
crossing
description
Irish Monthly
pilgrimage
purgatory
road
Station Island
vista
walk
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Title
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Alice Curtayne
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Lough Derg--Irish Identity--Alice Curtayne--Pilgrim Imaginary
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James L. Smith
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Digital Derg: A Deep Map
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2021
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Lough Derg
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"There is a lake called Lough Derg in County Donegal which has acquired extraordinary fame both in Christian history and in general literature. Natural beauty, however, does not account for that renown, as austerity is the character of the scene. Situated in the south-eastern tip of the county, this expanse of water is not even enhanced by nearness to the celebrated coast-line. The lake is extensive, six miles by four miles in area, and surrounded by low, heather-clad mountains, mostly unrelieved by either trees or cultivation, unremarkable in contour, forming a landscape that is usually a monotonous monochrome of either brown or grey tints. There is nothing to allure the eye here and no scenery in the accepted sense."
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"A landscape that is usually a monotonous monochrome of either brown or grey tints"
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Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne
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"There is a lake called Lough Derg in County Donegal which has acquired extraordinary fame both in Christian history and in general literature..."
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Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981
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Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 1
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Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin
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1944
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Monograph
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English
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54.616218, -7.876212
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DD_0112
Alice Curtayne
colour
description
emotion
Heather (Calluna vulgaris)
isolation
landscape
mountains
Rome
rural landscape
twentieth century
vista
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"In a lonely and remote region of the counties of Fermanagh and Donegal respectively, where scarcely a traveller ever passes, excepting those whom the sanctity of the spot allures, is situated the far-famed Lough Derg, with its celebrated island, containing Saint Patrick's Purgatory."
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"A lonely and remote region"
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Travelogues--James Spencer Knox--Lough Derg--Description
Description
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Knox describes Lough Derg as remote and obscure
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James Spencer Knox, 1789-1862
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Pastoral Annals. By an Irish Clergyman [i.e. James S. Knox], p. 375
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R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, London
Date
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1840
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Digitised by Google, sponsored by Princeton Library
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Monograph
Language
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English
Type
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Travelogue
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DD_0264
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54.6083, -7.8714
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Public domain
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https://books.google.com.mm/books?id=kIIuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=lough%20derg&f=false
isolation
James Spencer Knox
nineteenth century
Protestant critique
rural landscape
Travelogue
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Title
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Alice Curtayne
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Lough Derg--Irish Identity--Alice Curtayne--Pilgrim Imaginary
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James L. Smith
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Digital Derg: A Deep Map
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2021
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CC BY, sui generis database
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Lough Derg
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"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. Neither the Celtic monks, direct heirs to Dabheoc, nor the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine, who succeeded them, celebrated the Resurrection there that morning. No Alleluias were sung in Paschal gladness, there were no tiers of candles, nor banks of bright flowers. A melancholy silence shrouded the scene, broken only by the occasional mournful cries of aquatic birds. It was Easter Sunday only for furtive wild animals, heedless winds, rank vegetation, and the enormous pillows of moss characteristic of this sward."
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"A melancholy silence shrouded the scene"
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Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne
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"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..."
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Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981
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Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 23
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Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin
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1944
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English
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54.6153, -7.8864
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DD_0128
'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
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Text
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"There is no grandeur in the surrounding scenery ; everywhere is the same wilderness of heather, the same dreary moorland hills — no variety in their outline, no steep cliff or bold escarpment to vary the scene, not even a single patch of green to relieve the eye, except in one comer where there is a small, paralysed plantation of stunted Scotch firs. Not a living thing was to be seen — neither man nor beast nor game on the mountains, nor bird on the lake. I was, however, told afterwards that hares and moor-fowl do contrive to live there, and a certain kind of small, mountain sheep with long horns and black faces, a leg of whose mutton a hungry man might easily dispose of at a single meal. So much for fauna. There was no flora except moss and heather. In fact, nature here clothes herself in sackcloth and ashes ; the very aspect of the place induces solemn thought, and makes it meetest shrine for penance. It seemed to me, too, that the bare, whitewashed houses on the 'Station Island' were utterly out of tone with nature's wild surroundings. Seeing no person to apply to, and unwilling to return with my task unaccomplished, I resolved to try and reach the island myself in a boat which I found on the shore. I had nearly succeeded, when the freshening breeze compelled me to desist, and I was very glad to find rest and shelter under the lea of a kind of insular promontory, connected with the shore by a narrow ford, where, fortunately, I was discovered by the owners of the boat, who rowed me up to the island in the teeth of a very stiff wind."
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"A mere rock"
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Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Magazine--Narrative
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An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim.
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Matthew Russell, 1834-1912
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M.H. Gill & Son, Dublin
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1878
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Sponsored and digitised by Google, Princeton University Library
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Public domain
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Article
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English
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Magazine Article
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DD_0434
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54.626894, -7.924317
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'Lough Derg: By a Recent Pilgrim', The Irish Monthly: A Magazine of General Literature Sixth Yearly Volume, p.23
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https://archive.org/details/irishmonthlyvol01unkngoog/page/n5
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Irish Monthly
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pilgrimage
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sheep
Station Island