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The 1795 Disaster: Casualties of the Spiritual Waterscape of Lough Derg, County Donegal
- Author(s):
- James L. Smith (see profile)
- Date:
- 2019
- Group(s):
- Archives, Cultural Studies, Digital Humanists, Environmental Humanities, History
- Subject(s):
- Ireland, Irish--Social life and customs, History, Water, Humanities, Space
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Deep mapping, Spatial, eighteenth-century studies, Drowning, Irish culture, Irish history, Environment, Spatial humanities
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/t2ff-gz73
- Abstract:
- In the cultural and religious history of Saint Patrick’s Purgatory—a centuries-old Catholic pilgrim site situated on Station Island within the waters of Donegal’s Lough Derg—the mass drowning of 1795 stands out. The aftermath was devastating, stamping a lasting mark on the memory of place. The disaster continues to be complicated by its entanglement with a contested Catholic and Protestant partisan narrative, and the mode of remembering forges the social identity of religious place. As in tragedies of the post-2013 European Migrant Crisis involving overladen and poorly maintained boats sinking in the waters of the Mediterranean, a web of structure, agency, technology, and environment ensnares the vulnerable.
- Notes:
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- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
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