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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Page 182
... Connemara had already become an English enclave . With so much property changing hands , it asserted , Connemara had acquired the “ stamp of the Saxon in Ireland , ” an obvious reference to the title of Ashworth's book . The various ...
... Connemara had already become an English enclave . With so much property changing hands , it asserted , Connemara had acquired the “ stamp of the Saxon in Ireland , ” an obvious reference to the title of Ashworth's book . The various ...
Page 183
... Connemara's scenery ( " which happily mingles the sublime and beautiful " ) , but claimed that the " appalling want " they encountered around Leenane " deducted largely from the enjoyment we received in visiting a place famous ...
... Connemara's scenery ( " which happily mingles the sublime and beautiful " ) , but claimed that the " appalling want " they encountered around Leenane " deducted largely from the enjoyment we received in visiting a place famous ...
Page 229
... Connemara , 14 , 13 . 37. See Francis Bond Head , A Fortnight in Ireland , 149–50 , italics original ; see also 148-49 . For the sort of " Providentialism " espoused by observers like Head and Rev. Smith , see Peter Gray , “ Potatoes ...
... Connemara , 14 , 13 . 37. See Francis Bond Head , A Fortnight in Ireland , 149–50 , italics original ; see also 148-49 . For the sort of " Providentialism " espoused by observers like Head and Rev. Smith , see Peter Gray , “ Potatoes ...
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