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Alexis De Tocqueville's Journey in Ireland, July-August, 1835 (Paperback)
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Alexis De Tocqueville's Journey in Ireland, July-August, 1835 (Paperback)
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Alexis de Tocqueville visited Ireland in the company of his good
friend Gustave de Beaumont in July and August of 1835. At the time
of his visit, Tocqueville had just acquired an international
reputation with the publication of the first two volumes of his
celebrated Democracy in America. His profound interest in the great
transition from aristocracy to democracy then taking place in the
western world including Ireland was given special point in his
observations. Of equal interest to Tocqueville were the problem of
poverty, the pace of religion in civil society, and the intriguing
ambivalence of the Irish peasant toward the law. The notes on
conversations, letters to family, and vivid descriptions
Tocqueville wrote on his visit to Ireland bring the problems of
pre- and early-famine Ireland into sharp focus. Tocqueville was
welcome everywhere, in the mansions of the Protestant bishops and
in the simple homes of priests whom he accompanied on their rounds
through their parishes. His visits to the poorhouse, the
university, the sites of the Assizes and the Office of the Clerk of
the Crown of Ireland are among the recorded visits and impressions
of his journey. He noted the conditions of the towns and
countryside, saw that people starved amid plenty and was told
repeatedly that in Ireland the aristocracy made the problems and
the poor sustained each other. He recorded conversations in their
entirety. He made clear notes on what he saw and heard, often
noting his own reactions. The diary and the letters that he wrote
to his family about his visit to Ireland provide a rare insight
into one of the seminal minds of the nineteenth century. This
edition of his journal is perhaps the first serious scholarly
effort to place Tocqueville's journey to Ireland in its proper
intellectual, geographical, and historical context. The forty-seven
episodes, with the exception of three, have been arranged in
chronological order according to their occurrence. This volume
includes a map of Irish roads originally produced in the atlas
accompanying the ""Second Report of the Railway Commissioners,
Ireland, 1838.
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