Table of Contents

Contents: 29 eye-witness accounts of Ireland and the Irish by: Karl Gottlob Küttner, Caspar Voght, Philipp Andreas Nemnich, Johann Friedrich Hering, Friedrich Ludwig von Wachholtz, Heinrich Dehnel, Heinrich Meidinger, Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, Magdalene von Dobeneck, Friedrich von Raumer, Henrich Brockhaus, Karl von Hailbronner, Johann Martin Lappenberg, Knut Jongbohm Clement, Johann Georg Kohl, Jakob Venedey, Ernst Ludwig Gerlach, Anton Schütte, Ida von Hahn-Hahn, Franz Arnold Coellen, Moritz Hartmann, Adolf Helfferich, Fanny Lewald, Friedrich Engels, Julius Rodenberg, Reinhold Pauli, Leopold von Ranke, and two anonymous authors.

About the Author

Eoin Bourke, born in Dublin in 1939; emeritus professor of German Studies at National University of Ireland, Galway; undergraduate studies and doctorate at Munich University; author of books on the literature of the late romantic and post-romantic period and the Austrian Anschluss in history and literature as well as of many articles in several research areas including Vormärz, travel and expedition literature, migrant literature, the critical folk play, literature as testimony and German-Jewish studies.

Reviews

"Eoin Bourke [...] hat mit dieser Sammlung von ausgewahlten Texten deutscher Reiseschriftsteller und ihrer Ubertragung ins Englische eine literaturhistorische Meisterleistung vollbracht." (Heiko Steffens, Forum Vormarz Forschung, Jahrbuch 2015) "Eoin Bourke's 'Poor Green Erin' [...] has drawn an Irish following since its appearance in February this year, and for good reason. The emeritus professor of German from NUI Galway has, by means of translation, recovered a lost library of (mostly) 19th-century reportage on Ireland that few in this country has seen before. A knowledgeable guide can do a lot to make a tour worth making, and Bourke is the best of hosts." (Adrian Frazier, The Irish Times, September 22, 2012)