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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... seemed forbidding not because of their height , but because of their apparent randomness and barrenness . Writing of a visit to her family's estate on the Lakes in 1786 , Mrs. Dorothea Herbert described the mountains as “ piled in such ...
... seemed forbidding not because of their height , but because of their apparent randomness and barrenness . Writing of a visit to her family's estate on the Lakes in 1786 , Mrs. Dorothea Herbert described the mountains as “ piled in such ...
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... seemed " ignorant " when speaking English , his host seemed " bright ” when using Gaelic , suggesting , probably correctly , that the man “ seemed to think only in Irish . " Very few travel writers seem to have entertained the ...
... seemed " ignorant " when speaking English , his host seemed " bright ” when using Gaelic , suggesting , probably correctly , that the man “ seemed to think only in Irish . " Very few travel writers seem to have entertained the ...
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... seemed to be an anomaly . In so many ways , therefore , Ireland seemed a contradiction . Not only did the dire condition of the peasantry war with the beauty nature had bestowed upon the island ; apparent indifference and poor husbandry ...
... seemed to be an anomaly . In so many ways , therefore , Ireland seemed a contradiction . Not only did the dire condition of the peasantry war with the beauty nature had bestowed upon the island ; apparent indifference and poor husbandry ...
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