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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... John McVeagh includes around eighty accounts written between 1600 and 1699 , many of them by English soldiers and adventurers , reflecting both the unset- tled nature of the period and the significant British immigration into Ireland ...
... John McVeagh includes around eighty accounts written between 1600 and 1699 , many of them by English soldiers and adventurers , reflecting both the unset- tled nature of the period and the significant British immigration into Ireland ...
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... John Carr insisted that Irish roads were actually superior to those of England in beauty and durability. Only Sweden's roads may have been better.15 Along with the development of Irish roads came maps and guidebooks, the dearth of which ...
... John Carr insisted that Irish roads were actually superior to those of England in beauty and durability. Only Sweden's roads may have been better.15 Along with the development of Irish roads came maps and guidebooks, the dearth of which ...
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... John Forbes , putting up at Rathbone's Hotel in Kingstown , found it on the whole an excellent establishment . Yet he also recognized , " by sundry little intimations , that we had got into a less nice and more careless country than we ...
... John Forbes , putting up at Rathbone's Hotel in Kingstown , found it on the whole an excellent establishment . Yet he also recognized , " by sundry little intimations , that we had got into a less nice and more careless country than we ...
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... John McVeagh's bibliography con- tains over eighty travel accounts for the first two decades of the new century , almost as many as had been written in the previous fifty years . In fact , the Act of Union had produced a new imperative ...
... John McVeagh's bibliography con- tains over eighty travel accounts for the first two decades of the new century , almost as many as had been written in the previous fifty years . In fact , the Act of Union had produced a new imperative ...
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... John Bush's English " gentlemen of leisure " but also to middle - class tourists with limited time and budgets . Contemplating the shores of Clew Bay , Thackeray proclaimed in 1843 : " Were such beauties lying upon English shores it ...
... John Bush's English " gentlemen of leisure " but also to middle - class tourists with limited time and budgets . Contemplating the shores of Clew Bay , Thackeray proclaimed in 1843 : " Were such beauties lying upon English shores it ...
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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