Strangers to that land : British perceptions of Ireland from the Reformation to the Famine / edited by Andrew Hadfield and John McVeagh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hadfield, Andrew.

McVeagh, John.

Series:

Ulster editions and monographs ; 0954-3392 5.

Ulster editions and monographs, 0954-3392 ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British.

History.

Ireland--History--Sources.

Ireland.

Ireland--Foreign public opinion, British.

British--Ireland--History.

Travelers' writings, English.

Public opinion, British.

Genre:

History.

Sources.

Penn Provenance:

Elias, Archibald C. (donor)

Physical Description:

xii, 315 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire : Colin Smythe, 1994.

Summary:

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:

pt. 1. 1540-1660 / Edited by Andrew Hadfield. 1. Giraldus Cambrensis and English Writing about Ireland. 2. John Bale and the Reformation in Ireland. 3. The Nature of the Irish. 4. Three Travellers' Observations of Irish Life. 5. Land and Landscape. 6. Irish Society. 7. Hugh O'Neill, Second Earl of Tyrone (1540-1616). 8. War and Rebellion. 9. Colonization. 10. The Rebellion of 1641. 11. The Transplantation to Connaught, 1655-9

pt. 2. 1660-1850 / Edited by John McVeagh. 12. Passage and Travel. 13. The Sense of Difference. 14. From War to Union. 15. Irish Life and Customs. 16. Irish Towns. 17. Picturesque and Romantic Ireland. 18. Poverty and Famine.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-305) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Strangers to that land.

ISBN:

0861403509

9780861403509

OCLC:

30111615