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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... Dublin ; Alf and Finnuala MacLochlainn of Galway ; Owen and Bonnie Edwards of Edinburgh ; and Kenneth Haag , formerly of Bloomington , Indiana . I want to particularly thank Dr. Christopher J. Woods of the Royal Irish Academy for ...
... Dublin ; Alf and Finnuala MacLochlainn of Galway ; Owen and Bonnie Edwards of Edinburgh ; and Kenneth Haag , formerly of Bloomington , Indiana . I want to particularly thank Dr. Christopher J. Woods of the Royal Irish Academy for ...
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... Dublin Bay , they underwent a series of frequently disorienting expe- riences . Visitors disembarked outside Dublin , often at night amid great confusion . They were then carted into the city in strange and uncomfortable vehicles ...
... Dublin Bay , they underwent a series of frequently disorienting expe- riences . Visitors disembarked outside Dublin , often at night amid great confusion . They were then carted into the city in strange and uncomfortable vehicles ...
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... Dublin to “ a magni- ficent sparkling gem ... set in a great broad ugly wooden frame , rent and split in all directions - worm - eaten , moldering , patched and plastered — unsightly to the eye — unsavory to the taste — and not very ...
... Dublin to “ a magni- ficent sparkling gem ... set in a great broad ugly wooden frame , rent and split in all directions - worm - eaten , moldering , patched and plastered — unsightly to the eye — unsavory to the taste — and not very ...
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... Dublin to the Shan- non River system in the West . The southern line , the Grand Canal ( completed in 1803 ) , connected Dublin to the River Barrow Navigation and then moved west through the Bog of Allen and past Tullamore to meet the ...
... Dublin to the Shan- non River system in the West . The southern line , the Grand Canal ( completed in 1803 ) , connected Dublin to the River Barrow Navigation and then moved west through the Bog of Allen and past Tullamore to meet the ...
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... Dublin , twelve ; and from Holyhead to Dublin , only six.22 Irish accommodations seem to have lagged behind advances in transportation . Ivor Hering points out that it is difficult to gauge the quality of Irish inns in the eighteenth ...
... Dublin , twelve ; and from Holyhead to Dublin , only six.22 Irish accommodations seem to have lagged behind advances in transportation . Ivor Hering points out that it is difficult to gauge the quality of Irish inns in the eighteenth ...
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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