Early Modern Italians in Ireland conference
16th November 2023
Humanities Institute, UCD
What significance has Italy – and Italians – to the history and culture of early modern Ireland? What perspectives on Ireland and its inhabitants are offered by soldiers such as Alessandro Bertone, or Anglicized Italians such as Lodowick Bryskett? What does it change of our understanding of early modern Ireland to know that one of the earliest fortified houses constructed in the period was built to an Italian design (as Jane Fenlon has contended), or that Italians drew several of the most popular published maps of Ireland?
This symposium is an exploratory one, aiming to bring together and build on what we know of early modern Italians in Ireland, both people and texts. All are welcome!
Agenda for Early Modern Italians in Ireland conference
Early Modern Italians in Ireland poster
We are very grateful for the support of UCD College of Arts and Humanities Seed Funding, as well as seed funding from ‘Transnationalising the Humanities’ at the Humanities Institute, UCD, and the ‘Thresholds of Knowledge’ College research strand