Transnational Perspectives on Modern Irish History

Travel Literature and Traveling Irishness: An Italian Case Study

“…2 Recently, a rising interest in transnational Irish studies has increased the scholarly attention to Irish connections with other countries, but this development has been dominated by studies on interactions between Ireland and Anglophone countries. 3 This chapter will address these gaps by studying the outward travel of Irish writers to a non-Anglophone country, namely Italy. Using the case study of Julia Kavanagh's travel book on Italy, A Summer and Winter in the Two Sicilies (1858), the chapter will examine some of the most important trends in Irish travel to Italy in the nineteenth century, namely nationalism, religion, politics, and alterity.…”