The Sunny Side Of Ireland With A Chapter On The Natural History Of The South And West Of Ireland

"Travelling through Ireland in the good old times was at best a precarious and inconvenient diversion. Those who had to do so regretted the necessity, and those who had not, praised Providence. Many "persons of quality, " to use Dr. Johnson's phrase, have written narratives of their adventures and experiences in "the most damnable country. " No man of position, even early in the nineteenth century, would dream of travelling threescore miles from his residence without having signed and sealed his last will and testament. The highways were beset by "Gentlemen of the Road, " such as that fascinating felon, "Brennan on the Moor, " of whom the ballad tells- "A brace of loaded pistols he carried night and day. ""

Reprint of the second edition of the guide to Ireland following the routes of the Great Southern and Western Railway. Covers sights of Dublin, Limerick, Cork, Waterford, Killarney, Galway and many more. Originally released in 1902.

Irelands of the Mind: Memory and Identity in Modern Irish Culture offers a compelling series of essays on changing images of Ireland from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It seeks to understand the various ways in which Ireland has been thought about, not only in fiction, poetry and drama, but in travel writing and tourist brochures, nineteenth-century newspapers, radio talk shows, film adaptations of fictional works, and the music and songs of Van Morrison and Sinéad O’Connor. The prevailing theme throughout the twelve essays that constitute the book is the complicated sense of belonging that continues to characterise so much of modern Irish culture. Questions of nationhood and national identity are given a new and invigorated treatment in the context of a rapidly changing Ireland and a changing set of intellectual methods and approaches.

The relationships between tourism and royalty have received little coverage in the tourism literature. This volume provides a critical exploration of the relationships between royalty and tourism past, present, and future from a range of disciplinary perspectives.