This essay collection
explores the act and the representation of traveling by Irish men and women
from diverse walks of life in the period between Grattan’s Parliament (1782)
and World War I (1914). This was a period marked by an increasing physical and
cultural mobility of Irish throughout Britain, Continental Europe, the Americas,
and the Pacific. Travel was undertaken for a variety of reasons: as part of
Grand Tours; for artistic, political, and economic purposes; and in the form of
migration.
Exploring the effects of
traveling, migration, and other forms of cultural contact, particularly with
Europe, this book offers groundbreaking perspectives on current debates
surrounding issues of transculturalism, emigration, commemoration, and identity formation. Demonstrating the impact of the
nineteenth-century Irish across national borders and their engagement with
global cultural and linguistic traditions, the volume provides novel insights
into the transcultural spheres of the arts, literature, politics, and
translation in which they were active.