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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... described to us by the ancient Poets and Historians . " Happily , he added , “ our own kingdom still remains unexplored . ” 25 Hoare's reference to " our own kingdom " points to the most signifi- cant reason for increased interest in ...
... described to us by the ancient Poets and Historians . " Happily , he added , “ our own kingdom still remains unexplored . ” 25 Hoare's reference to " our own kingdom " points to the most signifi- cant reason for increased interest in ...
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... described “ a prospect of the most horrible impending precipices , that from their terrifying height , and broken ruins at the bottom , appear to threaten [ the traveler ] with destruction . . . . I never rode through a valley where ...
... described “ a prospect of the most horrible impending precipices , that from their terrifying height , and broken ruins at the bottom , appear to threaten [ the traveler ] with destruction . . . . I never rode through a valley where ...
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... described the mountains as " piled in such grand Confusion that they set the Head quite giddy to look at them — It seemed as if there had been a Battle of Giants there and Mountains torn up by the Roots and hurled in dread disorder ...
... described the mountains as " piled in such grand Confusion that they set the Head quite giddy to look at them — It seemed as if there had been a Battle of Giants there and Mountains torn up by the Roots and hurled in dread disorder ...
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... described it as " lifting its high embattled towers in a kind of melan- choly grandeur , bordering on sadness ; the antient avenue , whose tall dark trees shed a gloom over the outer gate - house , gives its neglected front a deeper and ...
... described it as " lifting its high embattled towers in a kind of melan- choly grandeur , bordering on sadness ; the antient avenue , whose tall dark trees shed a gloom over the outer gate - house , gives its neglected front a deeper and ...
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... described the revelry in the vendors ' tents during the pattern at Gougane Barra , a site associated with St. Finbar : “ All became actors , —none spectators . " Like most Protestant travel writers , however , Croker was unable to ...
... described the revelry in the vendors ' tents during the pattern at Gougane Barra , a site associated with St. Finbar : “ All became actors , —none spectators . " Like most Protestant travel writers , however , Croker was unable to ...
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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