Poor Green Erin : German Travel Writers' Narratives on Ireland from Before the 1798 Rising to After the Great Famine Texts Edited, Translated and Annotated by Eoin Bourke.
Title:
Poor Green Erin : German Travel Writers' Narratives on Ireland from Before the 1798 Rising to After the Great Famine Texts Edited, Translated and Annotated by Eoin Bourke.
Author:
Bourke, Eoin.
ISBN:
9783653025743
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2nd ed.
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1 online resource (794 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: "The Niobe of Nations" - the early literary manifestations of German awareness of Irish conditions -- 2 Karl Gottlob Küttner (1783 & 1784) -- 2.1 The tribulations of sea travel -- 2.2 Curraghmore -- 2.3 Life in the Big House -- 2.4 An anti-Twiss book -- 2.5 The little house -- 2.6 Toasts to William of Orange -- 2.7 Draconian laws -- 2.8 The sights of Dublin -- 2.9 Polarized society -- 2.10 Whiteboys and Volunteers -- 2.11 The Irish language -- 2.12 Irish newspapers -- 2.13 Irish Attire -- 2.14 Pro-American, anti-English Presbyterians -- 2.15 No middle class in Ireland -- 2.16 Trouble in the Irish Parliament -- 2.17 English prejudices about Ireland -- 2.18 An Irish wake -- 2.19 A language lost -- 2.20 Irish women and men -- 2.21 Tarrers and featherers -- 2.22 Anti-German prejudices -- 2.23 The fairy world of Curraghmore -- 3 Caspar Voght (1794) -- 3.1 May you die in Ireland! -- 3.2 A country ripe for rebellion -- 3.3 Economic loyalty among Catholics -- 3.4 Killarney: the home of the nymph Echo -- 3.5 Conditions in the South-West -- 3.6 A wealthy Catholic -- 3.7 Potatoes a blessing -- 3.8 Trade embargos and Penal Laws -- 3.9 An Act of Union as Panacea -- 4 Philipp Andreas Nemnich (1806) -- 4.1 The Act of Union -- 4.2 Absenteeism and emigration -- 4.3 Religious freedom? -- 4.4 Depressed economy -- 4.5 False bonhomie -- 4.6 Dublin - a city of polarities -- 4.7 Cork and Hamburg -- 5 Friedrich Hering (1806-07) -- 5.1 Arrival in Dublin -- 5.2 A march through the Irish Siberia -- 5.3 Dreary Dunmore -- 5.4 Tuam and Ballinrobe somewhat better -- 5.5 Court session in Ballinrobe -- 6 Friedrich Ludwig von Wachholtz (1810) -- 6.1 March from Cobh to Fermoy -- 7 Heinrich Dehnel (1810-1812) -- 7.1 Two suicides -- 7.2 A hunting accident -- 7.3 A farewell gift -- 8 Heinrich Meidinger (1820 & 1827).
8.1 Pleasant first impressions -- 8.2 Belfast a thriving city -- 8.3 The road to Dublin -- 8.4 The splendour of Dublin -- 8.5 Irish music -- 8.6 The German dimension in Irish learning -- 8.7 Religions in Ireland -- 8.8 Dublin trade -- 8.9 Financial crisis -- 8.10 Ireland's commercial potential -- 8.11 Howth as point of departure -- 8.12 Ulster -- 8.13 Maynooth -- 8.14 Cork and Holland -- 8.15 Munster -- 8.16 The murderous Irish -- 8.17 No need for Catholic Emancipation -- 8.18 The edifying effect of contact with Protestants -- 8.19 The dangers of Emancipation -- 8.20 The futility of revolution -- 8.21 The privilege of the right to complain -- 9 Hermann von Pückler-Muskau (1828) -- 9.1 Pauperism, rags and joviality -- 9.2 The natural grace of Irish peasant women -- 9.3 Class distinctions -- 9.4 An industrial scene -- 9.5 Powerscourt demesne -- 9.6 Donnybrook Fair -- 9.7 The West -- 9.8 Galway -- 9.9 Galway races -- 9.10 Begging with method -- 9.11 The ignorant gentry -- 9.12 Irish migrant workers in Lusatia? -- 9.13 An Orangeman's exterminatory fantasies -- 9.14 Gaiety in adversity -- 9.15 Irish hyperbole -- 9.16 Faction-fighting -- 9.17 Good landlords -- 9.18 The way to Derrynane Abbey -- 9.19 Boundless honesty of the people -- 9.20 The Great Agitator -- 9.21 O'Connell and d'Esterre -- 9.22 Tolerance and bigotry -- 9.23 The Irish compared favourably to continental peoples -- 9.24 O'Connell's Militia -- 9.25 Napoleon's son? -- 9.26 The tithe I -- 9.27 The Irish and the Sorbs -- 9.28 The tithe II -- 9.29 Good and bad landlords -- 9.30 Irish musicians -- 9.31 Two Robbers -- 9.32 The case of Magistrate Baker -- 9.33 "The Foxhunt" on the Uillean Pipes -- 9.34 An aristocratic view of the tithe -- 9.35 Wild merriment in Dublin -- 9.36 Three sunsets -- 10 Anonymous 1 (1832) -- 10.1 Cork Harbour -- 10.2 Recollections of Pickle and Mustard.
10.3 From Cork to Killarney -- 10.4 In praise of poteen -- 10.5 Signs of decay in Muckross Abbey -- 10.6 Cromwell's legacy -- 10.7 The tithe -- 10.8 Deserted Mallow -- 10.9 The Bianconi Coaches -- 10.10 Charleville and the Whitefeet -- 10.11 Kilmallock laid waste -- 10.12 Irish and English miles -- 10.13 The hunt in F……e -- 10.14 An Irish wake -- 11 Magdalena von Dobeneck (1832) -- 11.1 Contrasts -- 11.2 Irish weather -- 11.3 The season -- 11.4 Venturing into the world outside -- 11.5 A learned discourse -- 11.6 Irish music -- 11.7 The dance a battle -- 11.8 The superstitious Irish -- 11.9 An Orange March -- 12 Anonymous 2 (???? - 1834) -- 12.1 A Catholic Legitimist -- 12.2 The white man's burden -- 12.3 A land of contradictions -- 12.4 The Battle of Ballyheagh -- 12.5 The unpolitical nature of faction-fighting -- 12.6 Natives and Planters -- 12.7 The Sassenachs -- 12.8 Lords of the Island -- 12.9 The origins of the Orange Order -- 12.10 The demagogue Daniel O'Connell -- 12.11 The Tribute -- 12.12 O'Connell's Puppets -- 12.13 Repeal no antidote against absenteeism -- 12.14 Resident and absentee landlords -- 12.15 Healing not O'Connell's concern -- 12.16 O'Connell worse than his revolutionary precursors -- 12.17 The Protestants no better -- 12.18 Corporations exclusively Protestant -- 12.19 The law of the jungle -- 12.20 Conclusion -- 13 Friedrich von Raumer (1835) -- 13.1 England and Prussia -- 13.2 The tithe -- 13.3 Education -- 13.4 The curse of absenteeism -- 13.5 Tenants at will -- 13.6 William of Orange and Orangeism -- 13.7 Mutual extermination -- 13.8 Five demands -- 13.9 Carnival of rags -- 13.10 The legacy of the Boyne -- 13.11 The pariahs of Ireland -- 13.12 An Irish amusement -- 13.13 The hazards of public transport -- 13.14 Famine in the midst of abundance -- 13.15 The Irish Sphinx -- 13.16 The Dark Ages -- 13.17 A changed man.
14 Heinrich Brockhaus (1836) -- 14.1 Naples minus the mild climate -- 14.2 Pigs in County Tipperary -- 14.3 Cork Harbour -- 14.4 Muckross Abbey -- 14.5 The brand new town of Clifden -- 14.6 The Giant's Causeway -- 15 Karl von Hailbronner (1836?) -- 15.1 The honesty of the Irish -- 15.2 Dublin - a city of extremes -- 15.3 Few foreigners in Ireland -- 15.4 The political legacy of Anti-Papism -- 15.5 Powerscourt the absentee -- 15.6 A prophet in Glendalough -- 15.7 The ordeal of travel -- 15.8 O'Connell and Orangeism -- 15.9 Crisis at Giant's Causeway -- 15.10 The Twelfth of July -- 16 Johann Martin Lappenberg (1836) -- 16.1 Agrarian Unrest -- 16.2 The Volunteers -- 16.3 The United Irishmen -- 16.4 The Act of Union -- 16.5 The Catholic Association -- 16.6 Repeal -- 17 Knut Jongbohm Clement (1839) -- 17.1 Donegal devoid of history -- 17.2 The Aran Islands -- 17.3 Protestant rationality -- 17.4 The marvels of Belfast -- 17.5 The meaning of Dunamallaght -- 17.6 An Irish post-chaise -- 17.7 Fairy rings and rocking stones -- 17.8 The Irish Ireland -- 17.9 Paddy and Pig -- 17.10 Father Mathew's efforts in vain -- 17.11 The Claddagh -- 17.12 Irish prattle -- 17.13 Cork and the ostentatious Celt -- 17.14 The atmosphere in Irish inns -- 17.15 England's guilt -- 17.16 Waterford - a town of extremes -- 17.17 Two arguments about Papism -- 17.18 Travel and cuisine -- 17.19 The emigrant ship -- 17.20 O'Connell's effect throughout Europe -- 17.21 A personification of poverty -- 17.22 Repeal -- 17.23 Friesian orderliness in Wexford -- 17.24 Enquiring about distances -- 17.25 Maynooth and the Irish clergy -- 17.26 A litany of Irish shortcomings -- 17.27 Whoever does not read does not live -- 17.28 The incurable Irish -- 17.29 The Irish cabin -- 18 Johann Georg Kohl (1842) -- 18.1 An island of wonders -- 18.2 The coach to Dublin -- 18.3 The great city of Dublin.
18.4 Few outward signs of Catholicism -- 18.5 Land of milk and honey -- 18.6 Housing in East and West -- 18.7 Landlords worse than in Russia -- 18.8 The Cairngorm Isle -- 18.9 The Edgeworths and Tuites -- 18.10 The defects of the landlord system -- 18.10.1 Drivers -- 18.10.2 Subdivision -- 18.10.3 Letting the land in partnership -- 18.10.4 Middlemen -- 18.10.5 Obsolete agricultural techniques -- 18.10.6 Tenants at will -- 18.10.7 The world's worst legal titles -- 18.11 Gaelic in the Midlands -- 18.12 Agrarian Unrest -- 18.13 Spalpeens -- 18.14 Market day -- 18.15 Neither gypsies nor Jews in Ireland -- 18.16 Ruins everywhere -- 18.17 Irish rags -- 18.18 Pigs in the parlour -- 18.19 "The good people" I -- 18.20 Milesian Families -- 18.21 A showy people -- 18.22 Connaught versus Leinster -- 18.23 The Shannon -- 18.24 Cheap imports, cheap labour -- 18.25 Learned Kerrymen I -- 18.26 "The good people" II -- 18.27 The miracle-worker Father Mathew -- 18.28 St. Patrick's Purgatory -- 18.29 Learned Kerrymen II -- 18.30 Limerick's English Town and Irish Town -- 18.31 The Limerick Palatines -- 18.32 The Irish compared to other nations -- 18.33 The living skeleton -- 18.34 A Temperance Meeting in Kilrush -- 18.35 Unique in world history -- 18.36 Temperance better than Repeal -- 18.37 A Kerry hedge-school -- 18.38 A police station at Moll's Gap -- 18.39 O'Connell "a regular robber" -- 18.40 Mary Sullivan of Bantry -- 18.41 Poor Ireland feeds rich England -- 18.42 Catholics and Protestants -- 18.43 German and Irish codes -- 18.44 Ballad-singing in Kilkenny -- 18.45 Sailing from Waterford to New Ross -- 18.46 Repeal Meeting in Dublin -- 18.47 English Tolerance -- 18.48 Daniel O'Connell in action -- 18.49 Repeal Rent -- 18.50 Absenteeism in Merrion Square -- 18.51 Sheila-na-gig -- 18.52 Contrast between North Leinster and Ulster -- 18.53 Presbyterians and Catholics.
18.54 Rathlin Island a microcosm of Ireland at large.
Abstract:
The area of 19th-century German travel writing on Ireland has received widespread scholarly attention over the years in treatises in both English and German, but these efforts were directed largely at fellow-scholars and formed part of an academic discourse on travel, interculturality and alterity. This book, on the other hand, is conceived of more as a reader for the general public than as an academic treatise, presents a surprisingly extensive body of comments drawn from German and Austrian sources from between 1783 and 1865 and lets them talk for themselves. Some of these remarkably empathetic and well-founded eye-witness accounts were translated into English already in the 19th century by people like Sarah Austin and Sir Lascelles Wraxhall, but the editor has re-translated them to remove varying degrees of antiquatedness of formulation and has added other accounts that were hitherto largely unknown to the non-German-speaking reading public.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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