Dr Helen O'Connell helen.o'connell@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
"A Raking Pot of Tea": Consumption and Excess in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland
O'Connell, Helen
Authors
Abstract
Tea became a mainstay of many people's diets in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Ireland. However, this development was controversial. In a period of heightened counter-revolutionary anxiety, tea held a range of negative associations. This was especially pronounced in the tense conditions of post-1798 and post-Union rural Ireland. Tea-drinking was understood by reformers of the period to deepen the perceived decadent and idle tendencies of the rural poor. As such, its consumption was linked to a range of domestic and social disturbances. For many reformers of the period, tea came to represent an impediment to effective modernisation. In the process, however, tea became the focus of anxiety surrounding the general effects of modernisation itself.
Citation
O'Connell, H. (2012). "A Raking Pot of Tea": Consumption and Excess in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Literature and History, 21(2), 32-47. https://doi.org/10.7227/lh.21.2.3
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Sep 1, 2012 |
Deposit Date | Nov 22, 2011 |
Journal | Literature and History |
Print ISSN | 0306-1973 |
Electronic ISSN | 2050-4594 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 21 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 32-47 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.7227/lh.21.2.3 |
Keywords | Tea, Nineteenth-century Ireland, Food Studies, Improvement, Modernisation, Republicanism. |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1502444 |
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