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Public Life Public Life
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Marriage Marriage
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Irish Landowners and England Irish Landowners and England
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‘All Men Talke of Their Travells’ ‘All Men Talke of Their Travells’
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Souvenirs, Commissions and Gifts Souvenirs, Commissions and Gifts
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The Afterlives of Travel: Reading and Remembering The Afterlives of Travel: Reading and Remembering
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Travel in the Family Archive Travel in the Family Archive
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Abstract
Historians of travel rarely follow their subjects home, but the ‘afterlives’ of time abroad decided its success or failure as an aspect of family strategy. This chapter first examines how families discussed travel at the subsequent milestones of entry into public life, marriage and, for some Irish residents, the move to England. Continental experience stood among several factors, but it contributed to political careers, helped to attract the families of potential brides and offered one way in which Anglo-Irish landowners could buy into the English elite. A second section recognises that the power of travel depended upon its cultivation and display at home, examining how young men presented themselves through conversation, speech, deportment, consumption, souvenirs and gifts. Finally, the chapter explores how travellers and their families turned continental experience into cultural capital. They read to sustain and embellish memories, they assembled and used transgenerational travel archives and they incorporated time abroad into the stories they told about themselves, placing continental experience at the heart of family self-identity.
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