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Travel writer recalls 17th century Ireland as bleak place where ignorant men ate soap

Fynes Moryson offers vivid and questionable account in ‘The Description of Ireland’

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DARA KELLY,
IrishCentral Staff Writer
Published Thursday, January 17, 2013, 7:18 AM
Updated Thursday, January 17, 2013, 9:50 AM

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handsome68 | Jan 17, 2013, 08:47 AM EST
The headline leaves something to be desired. Are there no proofreaders? The Cambridge travel writer paints a bit of a dreary and nasty picture of the Irish he encountered at the time. Suffice to state that Queen Elizabeth I and her successor certainly were not helping the situation any.

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