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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... island . By the eighteenth century , they were touring for pleasure as well as knowledge at home and abroad . Toward the end of the century , the Critical Review announced : " This may be called the age of peregrination ; for we have ...
... island . By the eighteenth century , they were touring for pleasure as well as knowledge at home and abroad . Toward the end of the century , the Critical Review announced : " This may be called the age of peregrination ; for we have ...
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... Island , the pilgrimage site in the lough , had been known in earlier cen- turies as St. Patrick's Purgatory . Otway found the very sight of it “ of such a degrading character , that the whole prospect before me , struck my mind with a ...
... Island , the pilgrimage site in the lough , had been known in earlier cen- turies as St. Patrick's Purgatory . Otway found the very sight of it “ of such a degrading character , that the whole prospect before me , struck my mind with a ...
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... Island 1831–1861 , 7 . 24. See Otway , Tour , 256–59 . See also Ní Ghiobúin , Dugort , Achill Island , 13. Ní Ghiobúin points out that most of the money for the Achill colony came from out- side Ireland , much of it through the ...
... Island 1831–1861 , 7 . 24. See Otway , Tour , 256–59 . See also Ní Ghiobúin , Dugort , Achill Island , 13. Ní Ghiobúin points out that most of the money for the Achill colony came from out- side Ireland , much of it through the ...
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