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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... wild land full of raparees and blood-thirsty papists gradually gave way to genuine curiosity about Ireland and its people. McVeagh's bibliography refers to over a hundred travel accounts written between mid-century and 1799. William ...
... wild land full of raparees and blood-thirsty papists gradually gave way to genuine curiosity about Ireland and its people. McVeagh's bibliography refers to over a hundred travel accounts written between mid-century and 1799. William ...
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... wild and beautiful , a people rich in original character , a cordial and hearty wel- come for the stranger and a degree of safety and security in his jour- neyings such as he can meet with in no other portion of the globe . ' Although ...
... wild and beautiful , a people rich in original character , a cordial and hearty wel- come for the stranger and a degree of safety and security in his jour- neyings such as he can meet with in no other portion of the globe . ' Although ...
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... wild , Gaelic Ireland became a potential garden ripe for “ Saxon ” colonization . The Famine lent momentum to this vision . However , what began with tourism ended with tourism , as imperial , agrarian dreams faded during the post ...
... wild , Gaelic Ireland became a potential garden ripe for “ Saxon ” colonization . The Famine lent momentum to this vision . However , what began with tourism ended with tourism , as imperial , agrarian dreams faded during the post ...
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... wild . Thus , most seventeenth - century travelers crossing the Alps could only record their horror and loathing of the mountains and glaciers . To them , such wild places represented a ruined postdiluvian landscape , the " Wens , Warts ...
... wild . Thus , most seventeenth - century travelers crossing the Alps could only record their horror and loathing of the mountains and glaciers . To them , such wild places represented a ruined postdiluvian landscape , the " Wens , Warts ...
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... wild an assemblage , as if Chaos had been here arrested in his billowy .. career and chained to stability by the ... wilds in Ireland ! Its huge mountains ... its perpendicular cliffs hanging over the roaring surge ... all bespeaks some ...
... wild an assemblage , as if Chaos had been here arrested in his billowy .. career and chained to stability by the ... wilds in Ireland ! Its huge mountains ... its perpendicular cliffs hanging over the roaring surge ... all bespeaks some ...
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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