Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character

Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character
Author: William Williams
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2012-02-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0299225232

Picturesque 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.

Irish Travel Writing

Irish Travel Writing
Author: John McVeagh
Publisher: Wolfhound Press (IE)
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1996
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

Covering all aspects of travel since the 12th century, this guide provides a reference on Irish travel literature. The book also examines the tradition and content of tourist guides to Ireland. The information included ranges from diary-accounts of journeys undertaken through the country and towns of Ireland, written for the information of others, to private writings, such as the 17th-century account by Mary Granville of her journey to Galway. There are also excerpts from the journals and letters of historical figures, such as John Wesley and Mary Wollstonecraft. Furthermore, the author has added to the bibliographical data for each entry wherever possible, indicating the itinerary followed by the writer in question.

Surveying Ireland's Past

Surveying Ireland's Past
Author: Howard B. Clarke
Publisher: Virago Press
Total Pages: 848
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN:

"Collaboration and co-operation being keynotes of Anngret Simms's career, an impressive number of her colleagues and former students have joined together in a common enterprise to honour her contribution to academic life. The subject matter extends over the last two millennia and the authors range across the disciplines of archaeology, history and historical geography in particular. The contributors to this volume represent a substantial cross-section of the leading practitioners in their respective fields. The book contains over 130 figures and plates, along with tabulated material. Ireland's past, in all its diversity and richness, is here surveyed in a scholarly yet accessible way."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved