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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... Lough Ree.21 Steam technology promoted travel to Ireland well before it affected movement within the island . In the 1820s regular steam packets began navigating the Irish Sea , making the crossing from Britain quicker , more ...
... Lough Ree.21 Steam technology promoted travel to Ireland well before it affected movement within the island . In the 1820s regular steam packets began navigating the Irish Sea , making the crossing from Britain quicker , more ...
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... Lough Derg in Donegal . Approaching the site , Otway claimed that he could see the cultivated shores and isles of Lough Erne in the dis- tance to the south , while below him lay Lough Derg , the physical aspect of which seemed to ...
... Lough Derg in Donegal . Approaching the site , Otway claimed that he could see the cultivated shores and isles of Lough Erne in the dis- tance to the south , while below him lay Lough Derg , the physical aspect of which seemed to ...
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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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