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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... society . Just as the ideal vantage point for viewing a scene was the all - commanding prospect , so , in a society where status was the measure of man , one needed the per- spectives of class to reveal the lay of the social landscape ...
... society . Just as the ideal vantage point for viewing a scene was the all - commanding prospect , so , in a society where status was the measure of man , one needed the per- spectives of class to reveal the lay of the social landscape ...
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... society , the rural proletariat , " immiseration is likely . " 9 Thus , while the overall situation may have been slowly improving for some , the lowest one - third of Irish society was becoming increas- ingly disconnected from the ...
... society , the rural proletariat , " immiseration is likely . " 9 Thus , while the overall situation may have been slowly improving for some , the lowest one - third of Irish society was becoming increas- ingly disconnected from the ...
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... Society . Dublin , 1746 . · The Antient and Present State of the County and City of Cork , in Four Books . I. Containing the Antient Names of the Territories and Inhabitants , with the Civil and Ecclesiastical Divisions thereof , II ...
... Society . Dublin , 1746 . · The Antient and Present State of the County and City of Cork , in Four Books . I. Containing the Antient Names of the Territories and Inhabitants , with the Civil and Ecclesiastical Divisions thereof , II ...
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