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Written as a series of letters or reports for the Daily News in the autumn of 1852, the text works effectively as a single volume, bringing together diverse issues in a composed and coherent manner. In essence a travelogue, Letters from Ireland conveys a sense of all that is best about travel literature: opinionated, on the move and impressionistic, Martineau offers her readers access to a picture of Ireland that is at times frustrating and provocative, but always readable and well-argued. Although the text was written as a series of discrete pieces of a journalistic nature, the reader IS drawn towards a certain vision of a country which fascinated, and equally aggravated, the author.

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Author:   Harriet Martineau ,  Glenn Hooper
Publisher:   Irish Academic Press Ltd
Imprint:   Irish Academic Press Ltd
Weight:   0.538kg
ISBN:  

9780716526537

ISBN 10:   0716526530
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   November 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Letter One: Lough Foyle and its environs; Letter Two: West of Ulster-Weeds-London Companies-Templemoyle Agricultural School; Letter Threc: The Derry and Coleraine Railway-Produce and Traffic of the District-Beautiful Scenery-What can public works do for Ireland?; Letter Four: The Linen Manufacture-Flax Growing and Dressing; Letter Five: Agricultural Improvement in Ulster; Letter Six: Ireland dying of too much doctoring-The `Tenant Right' Question; Letter Seven: How Ireland is to get back its woods; Letter Eight: Leinster-Irish Industry-Religious Feuds; Letter Nine: The Women; Letter Ten: Railway from Dublin to Galway-Bog of Allen; Letter Eleven: Galway; Letter Twelve: Connemara; Letter Thirteen: The People and the Clergy; Letter Fourteen: English settlers in the `Wilds of the West'; Letter Fifteen: Achill; Letter Sixteen: The Wilds of Erris; Letter Seventeen: Castlebar-Pawpers-Emigrant Family; Letter Eighteen: Irish Landlords and Irish Potatoes; Letter Nineteen: Landlords, Priests, and voters; Letter Twenty: The Workhouses; Letter Twenty-One: Killarney; Letter Twenty-Two: The Rival Churches; Letter Twenty-Three: From Killarney to Valentia-Dingle Bay-Cahirctveen; Letter Twenty-Four: Valentia; Letter Twenty-Five: Priesrs and Landlords-New Features of Irish Life; Letter Twenty-Six: Emigration and Education; Letter Twenty-Seven: The People and the Two Churches

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