“The Irish and English in Italy’s Risorgimento “by Mary Jane Cryan fills the void of information in English about Italy’s 150th anniversary of unification being celebrated this year.

Until now the stories  of the one thousand  volunteers  of St. Patrick’s Battalion who  fought for  the Pope and the English excursionists  of the British Legion who sailed to Italy to  support  Garibaldi  were   forgotten episodes of the  Italian unification movement .

Thanks to historian and journalist Mary Jane Cryan, a resident in Italy since 1965, we now have information on what prompted both English and Irish men to risk their lives to fight in far-away Italy.

Spanning several decades, her research has unearthed confidential letters, diaries and secret documents regarding the Irish and English volunteers who fought in Italy’s Risorgimento battles in 1860.  

Contents  include: The Foreign Brigades-An Irish Tradition, Attitudes Towards the Papacy in Ireland & England ,     Volunteers, culture shock , troubles, spies and malcontents, Problems and Propaganda, English Volunteers for Garibaldi, Controversy & Missing Medals, Caricatures, Scandals and Doubles,  Sailing for Sicily, Irish Volunteers for Garibaldi,  Correspondents, Papers and Problems , Poetry, Music and the Volunteer movement 

     180 pages, index, maps, bibliography, 10 pages of colour illustrations. 

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