Tourism, Land and Landscape in Ireland

Download or read book Tourism, Land and Landscape in Ireland written by K.J. James and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study, exploring a broad range of evocative Irish travel writing from 1850 to 1914, much of it highly entertaining and heavily laced with irony and humour, draws out interplays between tourism, travel literature and commodifications of culture. It focuses on the importance of informal tourist economies, illicit dimensions of tourism, national landscapes, ‘legend’ and invented tradition in modern tourism.