This collection of personal stories and memories will resonate with anyone who has ever undertaken the pilgrimage to Lough Derg. The authors infuse their tales with the sense of pilgrimage, repentence and faith that inspired them to undertake this gruelling test.
For those who have not experienced the pilgrimage, the book will ring no less true. Lough Derg has been a place of pilgrimage for many centuries and indeed has been marked out on medieval maps of Ireland in a size twice that of Lough Neagh!
The authors of these tales are both well-known personalities and the ordinary people of country lanes and city streets. Their writing are an important record of this place.
Among the contributors are:
• Alice Taylor, author
• Greg Blaney, Co Down footballer, All Ireland medalist & GAA Allstar
• Ann Leonard, member of Seanad Éireann
• Bishop Willie Walsh, Killaloe
• Bishop John McAreavey, Dromore
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