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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License Voyages between France and Ireland STUDIES IN FRANCO-IRISH RELATIONS VOLUME 9 SERIES EDITOR Dr Eamon Maher, Institute of Technology, Tallaght PETER LANG Oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • Frankfurt am Main • New York • Wien Voyages between France and Ireland Culture, Tourism and Sport Frank Healy and Brigitte Bastiat (eds) PETER LANG Oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • Frankfurt am Main • New York • Wien Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche National biblio grafie; detailed bibliographic data is available on the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Names: Healy, Frank, editor. | Bastiat, Brigitte, editor. Title: Voyages between France and Ireland : culture, tourism and sport / Frank Healy and Brigitte Bastiat (eds). Description: Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, 2017. | Series: Studies in Franco-Irish relations ; 9 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017007743 | ISBN 9783034322645 (alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Tourism--France--History. | Tourism--Ireland--History. | France--Civilization--Irish influences. | Ireland--Civilization--French influences. | France--Relations--Ireland. | Ireland--Relations--France. Classification: LCC G155.F8 V69 2017 | DDC 914.504/08941--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017007743 Cover image: ‘Sunset over the Baie de l’Aiguillon/ Coucher de soleil sur la Baie de l’Aiguillon’, courtesy of Frank Healy. Cover design: Peter Lang Ltd. 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Printed in Germany Contents List of Figures ix Acknowledgements xi Frank Healy and Brigitte Bastiat Introduction 1 Part I Voyage, Culture, Identity 11 Barbara Wright 1 Islands as Places of Self-Discovery: Majorca, Ré and Inishkea North 13 Grace Neville 2 Walking on Air: Le Docteur Potain Takes to the Skies over Dublin in 1785 31 Eamon Maher 3 George Moore: Cultural Tourist in France 47 Michel Brunet 4 Les villégiatures bellifontaines de George Moore 61 Mary Pierse 5 To Bayreuth via Clapham Junction: George Moore, Cultural Tourist Par Excellence? 77 vi MICHÈLE Milan 6 Travelling Correspondents of the Nation: Travel Writing, Translation and Transnationalism 95 Terry PHILLIPS 7 ‘Out on a Great Adventure’: The Travels of Patrick MacGill 119 Ben Keatinge 8 ‘Of dream and deed sown in my travelling’: Denis Devlin’s Poetics of Travel 135 Part II Voyage, Gastronomy, Marketing and Sport 153 Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire 9 The Influence of French Travellers on Irish Gastronomy 155 John Mulcahy 10 Food (in) Tourism Is Important, Or Is It? 179 Marjorie Deleuze 11 ‘A Unique Sense of Place, Culture and Hospitality’: Fáilte Ireland and the Rebranding of Ireland’s Culinary Culture 197 Tony Kiely 12 ‘From Tullycross to La Rochelle’: Festival Food, French Connections and Relational Tourism Potential 215 Brian Murphy 13 Cognac, Scotch and Irish: Lessons in Gastronomic Identity 237 Sylvain Tondeur 14 A New Phenomenon: Whiskey Tourism in Ireland 257 vii Tanguy Philippe 15 Wrestling in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Ireland and the Ethnic Stereotype of the Irish Fighter in the USA 275 Patricia Medcalf 16 Sport: Part of the DNA in National and Brand Identities 293 Julien GUILLAUMOND 17 Marketing Irishness Today: A Study on Authenticity in French Businesses 313 Corinne Feïss-Jehel and Pierre-Jérôme Jehel 18 Paysages du tourisme irlandais : Une approche par l’image photographique 331 Notes on Contributors 359 Index 367 Figures Figure 5.1: Ye Bayreuth Pilgrimage by Walter Crane, RWS (1845–1915). Ink drawing. 94 Figure 9.1: Advertisement for French restaurant attached to the Bodega. Source: The Irish Times, 28 August 1890, p. 4. 171 Figure 9.2: The French Benevolent Society in Jammet’s Restaurant. Source: Irish Independent, 28 April 1930. 172 Figure 10.1: Definitions of gastronomic, food and culinary tourism. 183 Figure 10.2: Performance of GB market, 2004–2014. 186 Figure 10.3: Demographic segments and their size. 187 Figure 10.4: Tourists to Ireland: A typology. 189 Figure 10.5: Attitude to food of demographic segments. 191 Figure 17.1: Service au comptoir, Kerry’s Pub. 322 Figure 17.2: Kerry’s Pub. 323 Figure 18.1: Parc national de Glenveagh (Glenveagh National Park), 2013. 354 Figure 18.2: Cliffs of Moher, 2013. 354 Figure 18.3: Dans le Burren (In the Burren National Park), 2013. 355 Figure 18.4: Wild Atlantic Way, Péninsule de Dingle (The Wild Atlantic Way, Dingle Peninsula), 2015. 355 Figure 18.5: Site de la Chaussée des Géants (Giant’s Causeway), 2013. 356 x Figures Figure 18.6: Domaine de l’abbaye de Kylemore (Kylemore Abbey), 2013. 356 Figure 18.7: Le site de Newgrange et l’Oratoire de Gallarus (Newgrange site and Gallarus Oratory), 2010, 2015. 357 Figure 18.8: Derry 2015, Belfast 2010. 357 Acknowledgements This volume is the fruit of a conference that we organised in May 2015, and we would sincerely like to thank all those who participated and helped to organise it. The conference was a great success and many of the pres- entations given in La Rochelle can be found in this volume. We would also like to thank all those who helped with the publication process, par- ticularly all of our reviewers for their professional and constructive read- ings of the texts, Eamon Maher, for his expert advice and guidance, and Christabel, Laura-Beth and Jasmin at Peter Lang, who were always available and knew just how much pressure to apply to get results! We would also like to thank our laboratory, the CRHIA (Research Centre for Atlantic and International History), our colleagues at the CIEL (Department of Languages for Special Purposes) together with Estelle Epinoux and the EHIC (Espaces Humains et Interactions Culturelles) lab in Limoges for their financial and moral support, along with our colleagues at the University of La Rochelle who contributed to the smooth running of the conference, Isabelle Marchesseau in particular. Many thanks are also due to Catherine Benguigui and her colleagues in the Department of Culture (l’Espace Culture/Maison de l’étudiant), and Jean-Marc, Sébastien, Julien et al. in the Sports and Physical Education Department. We would particularly like to express our deep gratitude for the unstinting generosity that was shown to us by the late Laurent Estiot of the Sports Department in providing both financial and logistical help, and without whom the Friday afternoon tour of La Rochelle would have been neither possible nor so much fun. He is greatly missed. ‘Le seul véritable voyage, le seul bain de Jouvence, ce ne serait pas d’aller vers de nouveaux paysages, mais d’avoir d’autres yeux, de voir l’univers avec les yeux d’un autre, de cent autres …’ ‘The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others …’ — MARCEL PROUST La Prisonnière (À la recherche du temps perdu) The Prisoner (Remembrance of Things Past) Gallimard, 1923 Frank Healy and Brigitte Bastiat Introduction Life is a voyage. From Homer’s The Odyssey, through Dante’s Inferno; from Shakespeare (‘all the voyage of their life / Is bound in shallows and in miseries’)1 to Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress; from more recent Victorian romantics, notably Thomas Cole, whose most famous work is his series of four paintings representing The Voyage of Life (1842 – The National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA), to Walt Whitman (‘Oh Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done […]’);2 whether it be in literature, painting or other forms of art, the voyage is a metaphor that represents life. It is a metaphor that is both ancient and widespread. Its expression can be found in the origins of exploration, over 60,000 years ago. Wanderlust has propelled our civilisation across the infinitely deep sea of the unknown, both of the inner and outer worlds, to escape the mundane or flee oppres- sion, to conquer natural boundaries and to give meaning to the world in which we live. Throughout history, one of our most deep-seated impulses has been the desire to explore, to push back the boundaries of the unknown. Humanity’s voyage has taken the form of a quest, an odyssey, an expedition – and as such, constitutes one of the driving forces of civilisation.