Strangers to That Land: British Perceptions of Ireland from the Reformation to the Famine (Ulster Editions & Monographs 5)

Hadfield, Andrew and Mcveagh, John (edits.)

ISBN 10: 0861403509 / ISBN 13: 9780861403509

Published by Colin Smythe, 1994

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A new book with a bump to the front board and jacket. Image available upon request. Closed edges slightly dust marked.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Strangers to That Land: British Perceptions of Ireland from the Reformation to the Famine (Ulster Editions & Monographs 5)
• Publisher: Colin Smythe
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0861403509
• ISBN 13: 9780861403509
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Ireland

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Synopsis

Strangers to that Land is a critical anthology of English, Scottish and Welsh colonists' and travelers' accounts of Ireland and the Irish from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, from the Reformation to the Famine. The anthology consists exclusively of eyewitness descriptions of Ireland given by writers using English who had never been to Ireland before and were seeing the country for the first time. Each extract, where necessary, is set in context and briefly explained. The result is a vivid, continuous record of Ireland as defined and judged by the British over a period of four centuries.

About the Author

Andrew Hadfield is a lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at the University of Wales. John McVeagh is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Ulster at Coleraine, Ireland.