‘Lough Derg Pilgrim, The’

Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, The, January, 2000 by ROBERT WELCH

‘Lough Derg Pilgrim, The’ (1828), William Carleton's first published work. Originally entitled ‘A Pilgrimage to Patrick's Purgatory’ and written with the encouragement of Caesar Otway , who published it in his Christian Examiner , it appeared with Father Butler in 1829.

It tells of the author's adventures as a pilgrim; initially mistaken for a priest, he is robbed of his clothes and money by a confidence trickster.

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