Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character: British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine IrelandPicturesque but poor, abject yet sublime in its Gothic melancholy, the Ireland perceived by British visitors during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries did not fit their ideas of progress, propriety, and Protestantism. The rituals of Irish Catholicism, the lamentations of funeral wakes, the Irish language they could not comprehend, even the landscapes were all strange to tourists from England, Wales, and Scotland. Overlooking the acute despair in England’s own industrial cities, these travelers opined in their writings that the poverty, bog lands, and ill-thatched houses of rural Ireland indicated moral failures of the Irish character. |
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... Clew Bay in the early 1840s , William Makepeace Thackeray called upon his readers to come and enjoy the scenic beauties of western Ireland : “ Remote as the spot is , Westport is only two days ' journey from London now , and lies in a ...
... Clew Bay in the early 1840s , William Makepeace Thackeray called upon his readers to come and enjoy the scenic beauties of western Ireland : “ Remote as the spot is , Westport is only two days ' journey from London now , and lies in a ...
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... Clew Bay , Thackeray proclaimed in 1843 : " Were such beauties lying upon English shores it would be a world's wonder . . . . Why not come and see it in Ireland ? ” The writer urged the Londoner planning a trip to Continent “ to see his ...
... Clew Bay , Thackeray proclaimed in 1843 : " Were such beauties lying upon English shores it would be a world's wonder . . . . Why not come and see it in Ireland ? ” The writer urged the Londoner planning a trip to Continent “ to see his ...
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... Clew Bay with its many islands formed “ a picture equal to any I have seen in the Green Island . ” In 1838 Lady Chatterton , an ardent sketcher , discovered that after a shower “ the whole landscape resembles a highly finished and ...
... Clew Bay with its many islands formed “ a picture equal to any I have seen in the Green Island . ” In 1838 Lady Chatterton , an ardent sketcher , discovered that after a shower “ the whole landscape resembles a highly finished and ...
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... Clew Bay , a climb that some of the devout still perform with bare feet , Thackeray launched into a Protestant tirade without appending his usual rhetorical retreat into “ tolerance ” at the end . Commenting on a priest's insistence ...
... Clew Bay , a climb that some of the devout still perform with bare feet , Thackeray launched into a Protestant tirade without appending his usual rhetorical retreat into “ tolerance ” at the end . Commenting on a priest's insistence ...
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Contents
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3 Putting Paddy in the Picture | 51 |
4 British Tourists and Irish Stereotypes | 63 |
5 Tourism and the Semeiotics of Irish Poverty | 80 |
6 Irish Povety and the Irish Character | 105 |
7 Misreading the Agricultural Landscape | 127 |
8 Discovering the Moral Landscape | 147 |
9 Landscape Tourism and the Imperial Imagination in Connemara | 162 |
Conclusion | 195 |
Notes | 201 |
Bibliography | 233 |
Index | 257 |
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