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Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change Vol. 7, No. 4, December 2009, 302–307 BOOK REVIEWS Irish Tourism, 1880–1980, by Irene Furlong, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2009, pp 304, E29.95/£29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7165-2945-3 The study of Irish tourism history has reached maturity over the last few years, building on landmark contributions to the study of the history of Irish travel writing by scholars such as Glenn Hooper. The past two years have seen the publication of William H.A. Williams’ masterful work on pre-Famine tourism, Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character: British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008), in which he borrows from eclectic disciplinary apparati, including those of literary and folklore studies, and Eric G.E. Zuelow’s highly-illuminating study of post-partition tourism, Making Ireland Irish: Tourism and National Identity since the Irish Civil War (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009), which offers a highly sophisticated and original analysis of tourism integrated within the international literature on nationalism and national identity. It is within the context of this growing interest in a sector which (as industry interests remind us routinely) is one of the most important components of the modern Irish economy that Irene Furlong’s study, spanning the
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Published: Dec 1, 2009
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