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Life
Author of Excursions through Ireland, 3 vols. (London 1820), with beautiful engravings by Sir George Petrie; cited in Craig’s Dublin 1680-1880 (1968 &c.).
Works
Excursions through Ireland Comprising Topographical and Historical Delineations of Each Province; Together with Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and Every Other Object of Interest Or Curiosity. Forming a Complete Guide for the Traveller and Tourist. Illustrated with Six Hundred Engravings / by Thomas Cromwell / Province of Leinster - Vol 1 [of 3] (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; J. Greig, Back Road, Islington; and P. Youngman, Witham and Maldon, Essex. 1820)
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Quotations
Excursions through Ireland (1820): "[...] That the English government, thus permanently settled in Ireland, has, from its commencement almost to [3] the present era, been radically and most lamentably wrong, many circumstances tend to demonstrate. In every other country in Europe, the progress of civilization, of the liberal arts, and of those tastes and elegant desires which mark the improvement of humanity, has been commensurate with that of letters and of time; Ireland alone, the greater part of it at least, remains immersed in nearly all its pristine barbarity. [...] in Ireland, the subjected peasant yet weaves for himself the garments that he wears, rears for himself the wretched cabin that he inhabits, tills with his own hands the ground for every morsel of produce upon which he subsists, and unites in his own person every office of rural, domestic, and manufacturing economy. The consequene is, that his garments are generally such as an English labourer would scarcely stoop to pick up from the ground, his cabin and his food such as would be appropriated for the lodgement and subsistence of our working animals, while he himself, in many instances, performs the various species of labour, in England allotted to those useful brutes.’ (pp.3-4.).
References
[Cathach Books [Cat. 12] lists Excursions through Ireland, Topographical and Historical Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry; intended as a Complete Guide to the Traveller or Tourist, Vol. 2, The Province of [?] (London1820).
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