Exploring the effects of traveling, migration, and other forms of
cultural contact, particularly within Europe, this edited collection
explores the act of traveling 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: during the Romantic
period, the 'Grand Tour' and what is now sometimes referred to as
medical tourism brought Irish artists and intellectuals to Europe, where
cultural exchanges with other writers, artists, and thinkers inspired
them to introduce novel ideas and cultural forms to their Irish
audiences. Showing this impact of the nineteenth-century Irish across
national borders and their engagement with global cultural and
linguistic traditions, the volume will provide novel insights into the
transcultural spheres of the arts, literature, politics, and translation
in which they were active.