Strangers to that Land: British Perceptions of Ireland from the Reformation to the FamineAndrew Hadfield, John McVeagh Strangers to that Land, subtitled 'British Perceptions of Ireland from the Reformation to the Famine', is a critical anthology of English, Scottish and Welsh colonists' and travellers' accounts of Ireland and the Irish from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. It consists exclusively of eyewitness descriptions of Ireland given by writers using the English language who had never been to Ireland before and were seeing the country for the first time. Each extract, where necessary, is set in context and briefly explained. The result is a vivid, continuous record of Ireland as defined and judged by the British over a period of four centuries. In their general introduction the editors discuss the significance of these changing historical perceptions, as well as the impact upon them of literary conventions which played a part in shaping the emerging texts. It is argued that the relationship between Ireland and England within a British context constitutes a unique case study in the procedures of racial stereotyping and colonial representation, the exploration of cultural conflict and the aesthetics of travel writing. There are twenty-one contemporary illustrations |
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
1 GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS AND ENGLISH WRITING ABOUT IRELAND | 25 |
2 JOHN BALE AND THE REFORMATION IN IRELAND | 30 |
3 THE NATURE OF THE IRISH | 36 |
4 THREE TRAVELLERS OBSERVATIONS OF IRISH LIFE | 55 |
5 LAND AND LANDSCAPE | 65 |
6 IRISH SOCIETY | 75 |
1655 9 | 125 |
12 PASSAGE AND TRAVEL | 136 |
13 THE SENSE OF DIFFERENCE | 150 |
14 FROM WAR TO UNION | 162 |
15 IRISH LIFE AND CUSTOMS | 189 |
16 IRISH TOWNS | 221 |
17 PICTURESQUE AND ROMANTIC IRELAND | 240 |
18 POVERTY AND FAMINE | 253 |
7 HUGH ONEILL SECOND EARL OF TYRONE 15401616 | 90 |
8 WAR AND REBELLION | 99 |
9 COLONISATION | 110 |
10 THE REBELLION OF 1641 | 117 |
NOTES | 268 |
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