This volume offers a reasoned critical account of a wide range of travel writing about rural Ireland.

This volume offers a critical account of a wide range of travel writing about rural Ireland. The focus is on work by English travellers who visited Ireland for pleasure, from the scenic tourists to Eric Newby.

'Ryle's book is a wide-ranging review of the literature of English and some Irish travellers and tourists in Ireland. It is...always interesting, and demonstrates a keen sense of the literature on representation of Irish place and identity.'Ecumene