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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... ragged boy in the same predicament ; but to a looker on in a higher rank of life , he is a picturesque and interesting object . He reminds us of Murillo's beauti- ful pictures , and his utter destitution affords subject for thought and ...
... ragged boy in the same predicament ; but to a looker on in a higher rank of life , he is a picturesque and interesting object . He reminds us of Murillo's beauti- ful pictures , and his utter destitution affords subject for thought and ...
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... ragged mother , with a baby on her back , and two or three ragged children at her heels , 87 Tourism and the Semeiotics of Irish Poverty.
... ragged mother , with a baby on her back , and two or three ragged children at her heels , 87 Tourism and the Semeiotics of Irish Poverty.
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British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland William Williams. and two or three ragged children at her heels , and more rarely , the ragged father bringing up the rear ; -if you see this melancholy cortege glide into the huts by the ...
British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland William Williams. and two or three ragged children at her heels , and more rarely , the ragged father bringing up the rear ; -if you see this melancholy cortege glide into the huts by the ...
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