By Raphaël Ingelbien
This publication analyses commute texts geared toward the emergent Irish heart periods within the lengthy 19th century. in contrast to commute writing approximately eire, Irish trip writing approximately international areas has been under-researched. Drawing on quite a lot of overlooked fabric and concentrating on chosen ecu locations, this learn attracts out the unique positive aspects of an Irish corpus that regularly subverts dominant developments in Anglo-Saxon trip writing. because it charts Irish participation in a brand new ‘mass’ tourism, it indicates how that participation ended in heated ideological debates in Victorian and Edwardian Irish print tradition. these debates culminate in James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’, that is right here re-read via new discursive contextualizations. This e-book sheds new gentle on middle-class tradition in pre-independence eire, and on Ireland’s relation to Europe. The method used to outline its Irish corpus additionally makes cutting edge contributions to the learn of trip writing.
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249. 30 30 R. INGELBIEN continent; indirectly, a similar question arises as to the readership(s) that O’Flanagan had in mind. O’Flanagan was a freshly graduated law student who had taken a tour of Europe shortly before being called to the Irish bar. The son of a Catholic gentleman farmer, he belonged to the generation of affluent Catholics who came of age after the passing of the Catholic Emancipation Act in 1829, when the last major obstacles to social advancement were—at least symbolically—removed.
141, 19. 480. 53 O’Flanagan, Impressions at Home and Abroad, vol. 216, vol. 316. 54 O’Flanagan, Impressions at Home and Abroad, vol. 7, 10. 50 ‘BRETHREN AND SISTERS GOING ABROAD’ 35 his short tour being typical of those of ‘attorneys’ clerks, operative schoolmasters, sinecure professors […] the most outrageous specimens of travellers galloping along the usual route’. The review did note that O’Flanagan was ‘an Irish gentleman’, but did not make much of the fact. When it faulted him for ‘having observed too little, and taken too little trouble in disabusing himself of national prejudice’,55 it implied that the prejudice in question was widespread among British travellers.
His first visit to a continental place of worship takes place in Boulogne: On our way we went into the Church of St. Nicholas, and here I witnessed the impressive ceremony of prayers for the dead. Before the richly decorated 70 O’Flanagan, Impressions at Home and Abroad, vol. 57. O’Flanagan, Impressions at Home and Abroad, vol. 234. 83–118. 71 40 R. INGELBIEN altar, several priests in embroidered vestments, were chaunting in tones, solemn, and slow, the De Profundis, accompanied by a hoarse sounding instrument.