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10 - The Isles / Ireland: the wilder shore

from Part 2 - Sites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2006

Peter Hulme
Affiliation:
University of Essex
Tim Youngs
Affiliation:
Nottingham Trent University
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While it is commonplace to associate the eighteenth-century traveller with traditional Grand Tourism, this period also witnessed the emergence of a more locally focused form of travel, sometimes described as the Home Tour. Literally cut off from continental Europe at the time of the Napoleonic wars (c.1790-1815), increasing numbers of British travellers turned to their 'own' countries from the late 1760s onwards, visiting the Peak District and the Lake District within England, while the more adventurous journeyed into Wales, and eventually towards the Scottish Highlands and Islands, as well as across the sea to Ireland. In order to give some sense of the cultural background to these developments, this essay provides a brief account of several eighteenth-century travel accounts written about Britain before moving to a fuller consideration of Irish travel, which saw sustained interest during the same decades, but an even greater emphasis after 1800. Throughout the nineteenth century, discussions concerning national identity, security, and the future political relations between these islands permeate travellers' accounts, indicating that geographical distance was not the sole criterion for determining 'strangeness'.

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Print publication year: 2002

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