%0 Book
%A Eoin Bourke
%D 2012
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9783653025743
%T «Poor Green Erin»
%B German Travel Writers’ Narratives on Ireland from Before the 1798 Rising to After the Great Famine- Texts Edited, Translated and Annotated by Eoin Bourke
%R 10.3726/978-3-653-02574-3
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1045607
%X 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.
%K Religious discrimination, The Act of Union, Repeal Movement, Colonialism, landlordism, absenteeism, Irish poverty, Catholic Emancipation
%G English