Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character
Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character

Author: William Williams

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2008-12-07

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780299225209

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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.

Creating Irish Tourism
Creating Irish Tourism

Author: William H. A. Williams

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 184331844X

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Based on the accounts of British and Anglo-Irish travelers, 'Creating Irish Tourism' charts the development of tourism in Ireland from its origins in the mid-eighteenth century to the country's emergence as a major European tourist destination a century later.