«Ibernia fabulosa»: per una storia delle immagini dell'Irlanda in Italia
The essay traces the history of the relations between Italy and Ireland from the 7 th century AD to the present. The Irish monks and pilgrims of the Dark Ages brought to the peninsula their hagiographic and legendary writings (such as the Purgatorium Sancti Patricii ), which contributed – together with reminiscences from Classical antiquity – to an Italian vision of Ireland as a land of portents and wonders; while after the first Anglo-Norman conquest of the isle the propagandist writings of Gerald of Wales where for centuries the lens through which Ireland was seen in Italy. In the age of the Tudor conquest and Reformation the island slowly lost its fantastic connotations, becoming an asset in the Papal struggle against Anglican England. Later on, in the course of the Italian Risorgimento, the Italian leaders of the movement – such as Mazzini, Cavour, and Cattaneo - generally saw the nationalist movement in Ireland through English eyes, both because of their innate Anglophilia and for reasons of Realpolitik. Only in the 20 th century, during WW1 and its aftermath, did Ireland and its national struggle receive in Italy less jaundiced and more sympathetic glances. In the late 1930s and in WW2 the Fascist regime tried to use Ireland as a lever against England; while in the 1970s and 1980s the reemergence of the Anglo-Irish conflict attracted again the interested attention of some sections of the Italian political scene, as did later the ‘peace process’. But through all this the Italian images of Ireland arising from present political realities kept being intertwined with the much older images of centuries gone by.
Nazionalismo e integralismo religioso come attrazioni esotiche : Edith e Victor Turner al Purgatorio di S. Patrizio
L'A. interprete et demonte l'image qu'une situation de conflit que prendre aux yeux d'observateurs exterieurs. Il s'agit de decrypter la comprehension qu'Edith et Victor Turner ont donnee du pelerinage au Purgatoire de saint Patrice. Ce qu'ont appelle Purgatoire de saint Patrice est en fait la seconde moitie d'un pelerinage catholique irlandais qui correspond geographiquement a la gare Island. L'A. en detaille le parcours, l'interpretation donnee puis il remet en cause cette interpretation. Il s'agit de montrer en quoi ce pelerinage se fait le vecteur du lien entre integrisme religieux et nationalisme irlandais
Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789-2006
Impact of the French Revolution: 'The Battle of Burke' - Tone or Castlereagh? The Union between Britain and Ireland: One People? Daniel O'Connell and the Road to Emancipation 1810-29 The Repealer Repulsed: O'Connell 1830-45 The Politics of Hunger 1845-50 The Fenian Impulse Parnellism: 'Fierce Ebullience linked to Constitutional Machinery' 'Squelching': By Way of a Hors D'euvres Conflict In Ireland 1891-1918 The Politics of the Gun or a 'Saving Formula 1919-1923 'Melancholy Sanctitiy' in the South: 'Perfect Democracy in the North', Ireland 1923-66 'Unbearably Oldfashioned and Pointless': The Era of the Troubles 1968-2005 Conclusion