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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British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland William Williams. cheaper . Within a decade railroads began linking British inland cities to their ports . Writing in the 1840s , Anna Maria and Samuel Carter Hall announced that trains had ...
British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland William Williams. cheaper . Within a decade railroads began linking British inland cities to their ports . Writing in the 1840s , Anna Maria and Samuel Carter Hall announced that trains had ...
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... Ireland had no need to fear for their safety . As late as 1841 , the Anglo - Irish Halls urged their readers “ to see and judge for themselves a country which holds out to them every temptation the traveler can need : scenery abundant ...
... Ireland had no need to fear for their safety . As late as 1841 , the Anglo - Irish Halls urged their readers “ to see and judge for themselves a country which holds out to them every temptation the traveler can need : scenery abundant ...
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British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland William Williams. tains of Iveragh broke through the clearing atmosphere ... Hall , A Week at Killarney . Figure 3. The ruins of Boyle Abbey, County Roscommon. From. 25 Picturesque Tourism in ...
British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland William Williams. tains of Iveragh broke through the clearing atmosphere ... Hall , A Week at Killarney . Figure 3. The ruins of Boyle Abbey, County Roscommon. From. 25 Picturesque Tourism in ...
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... Irish antiquarian and artist George Petrie in 1847 ) , others , including the influential Halls , believed that they evidenced a connection to the Phoenicians and their ancient " fire - temples . " T. Croften Croker gave the last word ...
... Irish antiquarian and artist George Petrie in 1847 ) , others , including the influential Halls , believed that they evidenced a connection to the Phoenicians and their ancient " fire - temples . " T. Croften Croker gave the last word ...
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British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland William Williams. a melancholy not unpleasing , filled my bosom , while ... Irish Halls provided a lengthy description of the Battle of the Boyne , “ the key - stone of the temple of civil and ...
British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland William Williams. a melancholy not unpleasing , filled my bosom , while ... Irish Halls provided a lengthy description of the Battle of the Boyne , “ the key - stone of the temple of civil and ...
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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