«Poor Green Erin»
German Travel Writers’ Narratives on Ireland from Before the 1798 Rising to After the Great Famine- Texts Edited, Translated and Annotated by Eoin Bourke
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Beschreibung
The area of 19th-century German travel writing on Ireland has received widespread scholarly attention over the years in treatises in both English and German, but these efforts were directed largely at fellow-scholars and formed part of an academic discourse on travel, interculturality and alterity. This book, on the other hand, is conceived of more as a reader for the general public than as an academic treatise, presents a surprisingly extensive body of comments drawn from German and Austrian sources from between 1783 and 1865 and lets them «talk for themselves». Some of these remarkably empathetic and well-founded eye-witness accounts were translated into English already in the 19th century by people like Sarah Austin and Sir Lascelles Wraxhall, but the editor has re-translated them to remove varying degrees of antiquatedness of formulation and has added other accounts that were hitherto largely unknown to the non-German-speaking reading public.
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Eoin Bourke
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«Eoin Bourke’s ‘Poor Green Erin’ [...] has drawn an Irish following since its appearance in February this year, and for good reason. The emeritus professor of German from NUI Galway has, by means of translation, recovered a lost library of (mostly) 19th-century reportage on Ireland that few in this country has seen before. A knowledgeable guide can do a lot to make a tour worth making, and Bourke is the best of hosts.» (Adrian Frazier, The Irish Times, September 22, 2012)
«We owe Eoin Bourke a debt of gratitude for producing in his massive compendium such a rich and enjoyable source of information on how a diverse group of Germans across some three generations perceived Ireland at a particularly bitter period of her history. Equally, students working in the fields of Irish-German literary relations and of travel literature will find its comprehensive character and the accessibility of the accounts of otherwise lesser known figures of particular value.» (Eda Sagarra, Germanistik in Ireland 7, 2012)
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