What is it about?

Instead of considering Ireland as a tourist destination, this book discusses how Irish travellers were encouraged to discover Europe when ‘mass’ tourism developed in the 19th century. Drawing on vast amounts of neglected texts, it shows how Ireland’s conflictual nature produced original, distinctive and controversial forms of travel writing.

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"Raphaël Ingelbien’s Irish Cultures of Travel: Writing on the Continent, 1829-1914 is an engaging, highly readable, and frequently insightful treatment of a fascinating and hitherto neglected area of travel and tourism studies." (Review in Breac http://breac.nd.edu/articles/being-irish-on-the-continent-tourism-and-national-identity/ ) "What this book ultimately presents is an intriguing account of Ireland’s search for identity, seeking out the exotic in order to ‘see Ireland first’. Just like the adventurous traveller, this book extends far." (Review in Books Ireland July/August 2017)

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This page is a summary of: Irish Cultures of Travel, January 2016, Nature,
DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-56784-0.
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