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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 65
Page xi
British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland William Williams. Dr. Carole Ganim for reading earlier versions of the ... West : Landscape and Imperial Imagination in Connemara , 1820– 1870 , " which appeared in the spring issue of 1998 ...
British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland William Williams. Dr. Carole Ganim for reading earlier versions of the ... West : Landscape and Imperial Imagination in Connemara , 1820– 1870 , " which appeared in the spring issue of 1998 ...
Page 11
... Ireland . In his Hibernia Curiosa ( 1767 ) , John Bush informed his readers that “ the gentleman of leisure and ... west than the salmon leap at Ballyshannon . His attitude toward the Irish , regardless of rank , made the haughty and highly ...
... Ireland . In his Hibernia Curiosa ( 1767 ) , John Bush informed his readers that “ the gentleman of leisure and ... west than the salmon leap at Ballyshannon . His attitude toward the Irish , regardless of rank , made the haughty and highly ...
Page 20
... West of Ireland . A region long recognized as representing the essence of wild , Gaelic Ireland became a potential garden ripe for “ Saxon ” colonization . The Famine lent momentum to this vision . However , what began with tourism ...
... West of Ireland . A region long recognized as representing the essence of wild , Gaelic Ireland became a potential garden ripe for “ Saxon ” colonization . The Famine lent momentum to this vision . However , what began with tourism ...
Page 41
British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland William Williams. ably Evangelical writer became distressed when , upon entering a “ dirty town " in the West of Ireland , he saw the new Roman Catholic " chapel " overtopping the Anglican ...
British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland William Williams. ably Evangelical writer became distressed when , upon entering a “ dirty town " in the West of Ireland , he saw the new Roman Catholic " chapel " overtopping the Anglican ...
Page 46
... West of Ireland on the heels of the Famine , John Harvey Ashworth followed a funeral procession to the graveyard , where , as he watched , the mourners took an old coffin out of the ground and replaced it with the new one . “ Around was ...
... West of Ireland on the heels of the Famine , John Harvey Ashworth followed a funeral procession to the graveyard , where , as he watched , the mourners took an old coffin out of the ground and replaced it with the new one . “ Around was ...
Contents
3 | |
21 | |
32 | |
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 |
Other editions - View all
Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character: British Travel Writers in Pre ... William Williams No preview available - 2012 |
Common terms and phrases
Aalen aesthetic agricultural Anglo-Irish Anne Plumptre Anon Arthur Young beauty beggars Blake bogs Britain British tourists British travel writers British visitors cabins Caesar Otway Clew Bay Connemara Cork Croker cultivation culture described Dublin economic Edited eighteenth century encountered England English Famine farmers Gaelic Galway Gráda Hall's Ireland Hiberno-English History ibid Imagination Inglis Irish character Irish peasant Irish poverty Irish Sketch Book Irish Tourist Irish travel italics added italics original James Johnson Jonathan Binns Journey Kerry Kevin Whelan Lakes of Killarney land landlords landscape Leitch Ritchie London look Lough Lough Corrib moral mountains numbers Ó Gráda Paddy Paddy's painting peasantry picturesque poor potato Pre-Famine Protestant ragged road romantic ruins rundale Samuel Carter Hall scene scenery social society South of Ireland Sportsman in Ireland sublime suggests Thackeray Thomas Reid tion Tour in Ireland Tourism in Ireland travel accounts Ulster villages West of Ireland wild William William Makepeace Thackeray