Educational Travel in Protestant Families From Post-Restoration Ireland

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ID8958321
AutoresRichard Ansell (0009-0006-2478-9634, University of York, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume58
Fascículo4
Páginas931-958
Data de publicação2015-10-29
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Historical Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0018246x15000102
OpenAlexW1877518357
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas17

This article examines travel within a group of Protestant families from Ireland over three generations after the Restoration. It offers both a case-study through which to reassess continental educational voyages, exploring a neglected period between the royalist exile of the 1650s and the mid-eighteenth-century heyday of the Grand Tour, and a contribution to current work on Irish elite formation. Histories of travel often begin as undifferentiated Englishmen or Britons arrive on the French or Dutch coast, but this study is the first to prioritize where travellers came from. Backgrounds, outlooks, and networks from home shaped experiences abroad. The article uses manuscript journals, letters, and financial accounts to locate travel within family educational strategies and to reconstruct preparations and advice. It explores how connections and identifications from home informed interactions with fellow travellers, expatriate communities, and foreign hosts. Travellers pursued two-sided interactions with hosts and destinations, returning with objects, accomplishments, and connections that fed into Irish elite formation. Continental links often feature in explanations of how Catholic Ireland survived, but this article shows that European encounters also contributed to Protestant hegemony. It demonstrates the importance of origins, as well as destinations, to understandings and experiences of educational travel

Destinations · Elite · Expatriate · Genealogy · Geography · Hegemony · Irish · Political science · Politics · Protestantism · Royalist · Sociology · Tourism · Gender Studies · Historical Art and Culture Studies · History · Law · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Travel Writing and Literature