Tourism Histories in Ulster and Scotland: Connections and Comparisons 1800–1939
Description
This collection of essays brings together scholars of Irish and Scottish tourism history to chart a new comparative direction in research. The long-standing cultural exchanges, economic linkages, and flows of people between Ulster and Scotland included, from the nineteenth century, extensive recreational travel across the North Channel. At the same time, cities, resorts, and tourist sites in each place vied for the tourist’s pound in the lucrative English market. Ulster and Scotland boasted a number of comparable sites – indeed Staffa and the Giant’s Causeway were often seen as part of a single ‘site’, and Co. Donegal was promoted to tourists as the ‘Irish Highlands’ – while numerous resort towns catered to heavy cross-channel traffic between the two places. Indeed, for some, Ulster and Scotland constituted a single regional tourist economy; for others, the two locations were fierce competitors.
This collection includes overviews of each tourism sector, specific case studies that suggest the value of comparison, and several studies that examine institutional and even infrastructural linkages. Through these combined approaches, it shows that tracing the historical development of, and connections between, tourism in Ulster and Scotland yields important insights into the character of tourist development, and suggests the value of adopting a new spatial framework for exploring tourism history.
Tourism Histories in Ulster and Scotland is edited by Kevin J. James, associate Professor of History at the University of Guelph, Ontario and Eric G.E. Zuelow, associate Professor of European History at the University of New England, Maine.
Contents
Contributions
Acknowledgements
Maps of Ulster and Central Belt, Scotland and of Ireland and Great Britain
Introduction
Kevin J.James and Eric G.E. Zuelow
- The Long view of Tourism in Scotland and Ireland:
Contrasting fortunes, 1800-1939
Alistair Durie - A'union indefeasible': tunnel vision in the North Channel,
1868-1901
Kevin J. James and Shannon O'Connor - 'Royal Deeside' and the public/private divide:
nineteenth-century tourism promotion and the royal residence of Balmoral
Erica Lea German - 'An air of comfort and neatness which is seldom seen in Ireland':
the bathing resort and the promised land in Victorian Ulster
Tricia Cusack - The Lido Phenomenon: the Scottish and Ulster Experience
Eric Simpson - 'The Tradition peculiarities of Scottish worship':
nineteenth-century tourism and religion in Scotland
Katherine Haldane GrenierEpilogue: Tourism, the 'four nations' and the Irish Sea economy
John K. Walton
Index of Names
Index of Places