Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character: British Travel Writers in Pre-famine Ireland (History of Ireland & the Irish Diaspora)

by W.H.A.Williams (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $76.12

  British tourists in Ireland in the 18th and 19th centuries were both charmed and repulsed. The Ireland they experienced did not fit their British sense of progress, propriety, and Protestantism. This work provides the moral judgments British observers made about the Irish countryside and its native inhabitants.