Anne O'Connor and Colin Barr - INTRODUCTION - Nation/Nazione Michele Finelli - Intersections - The historiography of Irish and Italian national movements PART I - LEADERS AND FIGUREHEADS - Roland Sarti - Giuseppe Mazzini, father of European Democracy? Alberto Belletti - Father Gioacchino Ventura and Daniel O'Connell's funeral oration PART II - WAR AND CRISIS - Ciaran O'Carroll - The Papal Irish Brigade - Origins and objectives and fortunes Anne O'Connor - Conflict, confusion and controversy - The Italian Risorgimento and the Irish Papal Brigade Jennifer O'Brien - Irish public opinion and the Risorgimento through the eyes of the press, 1859-60 PART III - REACTION AND INTERACTION - Colin Barr - Mazzinians, Garibaldians and Fenians - The Risorgimento in the Irish Catholic imagination Andrew Shields - 'That Noble Struggle' - Irish Conservative Attitudes towards the Risorgimento, c. 1848-70 Marta Ramon - Irish nationalism and the demise of the Papal States, 1848-71 PART IV - CULTURE AND GENDER - Emanuelo Minuto - The reception of Thomas Moore in Italy in the nineteenth century Donatella Abbate Badin - Female agency in the Risorgimento - Lady Morgan's role and impact Emer Delaney - Women in the Risorgimento and Irish independence movement Notes Index.