Britain, Ireland and the Italian Risorgimento

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Britain, Ireland and the Italian Risorgimento

   • Nick Carter

   Pages 1-32

3. A Cosmopolitan Nationalism: Young Ireland and the Risorgimento

   • Michael Huggins

   Pages 33-54

4. ‘The ink of the wise’: Mazzini, British Radicalism and Print Culture, 1848–1855

   • Joan Allen

   Pages 55-79

5. Felice Orsini and the Construction of the Pro-Italian Narrative in Britain

   • Elena Bacchin

   Pages 80-103

6. ‘An Italy Independent and One’: Giovanni (John) Ruffini, Britain and the Italian Risorgimento

   • Raffaella Antinucci

   Pages 104-126

7. An Italian Inferno in Ireland: Alessandro Gavazzi and Religious Debate in the Nineteenth Century

   • Anne O’Connor

   Pages 127-150

8. Conforming to the British Model? ‘Official’ British Perspectives on the New Italy

   • O. J. Wright

   Pages 151-178

9. Italian Women in the Making: Re-reading the Englishwoman’s Review (c.1871–1889)

   • Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe

   Pages 179-203

10. Italy and the ‘Irish Risorgimento’: Italian Perspectives on the Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921

    • Chiara Chini

    Pages 204-223

11. Back Matter

    Pages 225-233

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This book offers a unique and fascinating examination of British and Irish responses to Italian independence and unification in the mid-nineteenth century. Chapters explore the interplay of religion, politics, exile, feminism, colonialism and romanticism in fuelling impassioned debates on the 'Italian question' on both sides of the Irish Sea.

• Risorgimento
• Italian unification
• Italian independence
• nineteenth century
• transnational history
• Britain
• British
• Ireland
• Irish
• Romanticism
• nationalism
• anti-Catholicism
• feminism
• exile
• radicalism
• Mazzini
• Ruffini
• Orsini
• Gavazzi
• Young Ireland
• colonialism
• history

• Australian Catholic University, Sydney, Australia

  Nick Carter

Nick Carter is Associate Professor of Modern History at the Australian Catholic University in Sydney, Australia. His recent publications include Modern Italy in Historical Perspective (2010). He is Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University, Executive Member of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy and Reviews Editor for Modern Italy.

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