«Poor Green Erin»: German Travel Writers' Narratives on Ireland from Before the 1798 Rising to After the Great Famine- Texts Edited, Tran

By Eoin Bourke

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 19thcentury 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3631628617
• ISBN13: 9783631628614
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 776 Pages
• Weight: 2.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 5.9" x 8.4"