Publication date:
01 March 2010Length of book:
272 pagesPublisher
Anthem PressISBN-13: 9781843318996
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. The work shows how the Irish tourist experience evolved out of the interactions among travel writers, landlords, and visitors with the peasants who, as guides, jarvies, venders, porters and beggars, were as much a part of Irish tourism as the scenery itself.
'Meticulously researched and elegantly written… It would be difficult to underestimate the work’s importance for any serious student of Irish history and culture or indeed for anyone with an interest in the birth of tourism as a global phenomenon.' —Michael Cronin, Director of the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies, Dublin City University, Ireland