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A fascinating look at Ireland–its history, traditions, and people. “Reading the book and looking at Rein’s drawings are like visiting a part of the world which is still unspoiled and lovely.”–Publishers Weekly… More >>
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A catholic country with a long history,Ireland is a perennially good-selling subject thanks to the serene green beauty of much of the country. From the harsh Atlantic breakers of the West Coast to the Irish Sea in the east; the Giant’s causeway on the Antrim coast a stone’s throw from Scotland, to the famous Blarney Castle in the south,Ireland is one of the few major European countries largely unspoiled by technological progress; a land where the atmosphere of histo… More >>
North Wales like a poem in the landscape
For 20 years, I’ve built my North Wales coverage around a medieval banquet at Ruthin Castle. Driving into Ruthin — and knowing its banquet was now out of business — I intended to cut the town entirely from my book. I was on edge, moody, as if I were about to commit a violent act.
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British tourists in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were both charmed and repulsed. Picturesque but poor, abject yet sublime in its Gothic melancholy, the Ireland they experienced did not fit their British sense of progress, propriety, and Protestantism. Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character draws from more than one hundred accounts by English, Scottish, Welsh, and Anglo-Irish tourists written between 1750 and 1850 to probe the moral judgmen… More >>
Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character: British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland
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This book investigates the places on the Irish landscape where open-air Gaelic royal inauguration assemblies were held in the period c. 1100-1600. It emphasises the significant role that specially appointed inauguration sites played in the political life of later medieval Gaelic lordships through an exploration of their physical appearance, place-names, situational geography and historical contexts. The range of archaeological sites identified as inauguration places… More >>
Royal Inauguration in Gaelic Ireland, c.1100-1600: A Cultural Landscape Study
