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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... seen a new animal . ” 1 On the road between Cork and Bantry , Thackeray tried to sketch some peasant cabins but found the task impossible . “ One might as well make a sketch of a bundle of rags .... I declare I believe a Hotten- tot ...
... seen a new animal . ” 1 On the road between Cork and Bantry , Thackeray tried to sketch some peasant cabins but found the task impossible . “ One might as well make a sketch of a bundle of rags .... I declare I believe a Hotten- tot ...
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... seen by the way they addressed the issue of alleged Irish indolence . Some assumed that the Irish were simply lazy . C. T. Bowden complained , " It is a melancholy circumstance for a traveler to behold such numbers of boys and girls ...
... seen by the way they addressed the issue of alleged Irish indolence . Some assumed that the Irish were simply lazy . C. T. Bowden complained , " It is a melancholy circumstance for a traveler to behold such numbers of boys and girls ...
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... seen for miles . ” But she was , as she said , not one to " sentimentalize . " She took comfort in the old saying " The fewer the better cheer , " and indeed , " we state that where one cottage remains inhabited among half - a - dozen ...
... seen for miles . ” But she was , as she said , not one to " sentimentalize . " She took comfort in the old saying " The fewer the better cheer , " and indeed , " we state that where one cottage remains inhabited among half - a - dozen ...
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