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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... economic progress . Arthur Young in the 1770s , John Carr in 1801 , Rev. Joseph Robertson in 1806 , and John Gough as late as 1816 reported indications of growth along with appalling poverty . With the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 ...
... economic progress . Arthur Young in the 1770s , John Carr in 1801 , Rev. Joseph Robertson in 1806 , and John Gough as late as 1816 reported indications of growth along with appalling poverty . With the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 ...
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... economic decline in Ireland between 1820 and the Famine . Despite the crisis of adjustment during the immediate postwar years , he also finds some signs of economic revival and improvement in the ensuing decades . For example , the ...
... economic decline in Ireland between 1820 and the Famine . Despite the crisis of adjustment during the immediate postwar years , he also finds some signs of economic revival and improvement in the ensuing decades . For example , the ...
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... economic val- ues implicit in the favorite British landscapes . Indeed , the type of countryside most admired by British travelers suggested not just culti- vation but organization as well : land ordered by the proprietor for the ...
... economic val- ues implicit in the favorite British landscapes . Indeed , the type of countryside most admired by British travelers suggested not just culti- vation but organization as well : land ordered by the proprietor for the ...
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