Island of Daemons: The Lough Derg Pilgrimage and the Poets Patrick Kavanagh, Denis Devlin, and Seamus Heaney

by Terence Dewsnap

Book Overview

This work compiles the history of the Donegal pilgrimage as presented in historical texts, guidebooks, popular writing, devotional treatises, and newspaper and journal accounts. This material_with its cultural, political, as well as religious associations_provides background for these poets' Lough Derg poems, which relate their own pilgrimage experiences. The book proceeds to examine Devlin's 'Lough Derg, ' Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg, ' and Heaney's 'Station...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611490898
• ISBN13: 9781611490893
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 221 Pages