Journeys in Ireland - 9781859282007

Taylor & Francis

This volume offers a reasoned critical account of a wide range of travel writing about rural Ireland. > This volume offers a reasoned critical account of a wide range of travel writing about rural Ireland. The focus is on work by English travellers who visited Ireland for pleasure, from the \u2019scenic tourists\u2019 of the post-Romantic period to Eric Newby in the 1980s. Ryle also discusses accounts by American and English anthropologists, as well as writing by Irish authors including J.M. Synge, George Moore, Sean O\u2019Faolain and Colm T\u00C3\u00B3ib\u00C3\u00ADn. The materials reviewed and discussed here, including many books which are now difficult to find, offer illuminating and sometimes entertaining evidence about the development of tourism. Ryle also shows how the discourses and practices of pleasurable travel have intersected with and been marked by the dimensions of power and proprietorship, hegemony, and resistance, which have characterised Anglo-Irish and Hiberno-Ee