The Irish Railway Journey: A Tourist History of the Emerald Isle
Ireland embraced tourism from mid-Victorian times. Railways and cross-channel steamers between Europe’s two largest islands transformed the travel landscape of a country possessing a unique blend of attractive cultural, heritage, natural and manmade assets. This book records the story of travel, from and around Ireland, and how visitors explored places and new resorts put on the map by railway expansion. Sought after destinations were made familiar through travellers’ tales and writings, and an explosion in the level of marketing materials produced by competing railway companies and travel organisers, all carefully designed to attract affluent Victorian and Edwardian visitors.
Martyn Pring
- Unicorn Publishing Group
- 9781914414855
- 320 pages
- Hardback
- United Kingdom
- Trains & railways: general interest
