Luca Bertolani Azeredo dal 2021 è un dottorando del XXXVII ciclo, in “Global History and Governance” presso la Scuola Superiore Meridionale (Napoli).
Il suo attuale progetto di ricerca, dal titolo «There are illegalities that are not crimes» Un’indagine sulla violenza politica e sui corpi paramilitari nell’Irlanda prima della Grande Guerra è supervisionato dal professor Teodoro Tagliaferri (UNINA Federico II). Questa ricerca prevede, partendo da una riflessione sulla cultura e il nazionalismo di fine ‘800, di analizzare lo sviluppo dei corpi paramilitari e dell’uso della violenza politica nell’Irlanda tra fine XIX secolo e il 1916.
Dall’aprile 2024 all’ottobre 2024 è stato Visiting Research Fellow presso il Centre of Contemporary Irish History, School of Histories and Humanities, Trinity College, Dublin, sotto la direzione della professoressa Lindsey Earner-Byrne.
Dal maggio 2023 all’ottobre 2023 è Visiting Student presso la University College, Cork, sotto la supervisione del professor John Borgonovo.
Dal settembre 2022 al febbraio 2023 è stato Visiting Student presso la Queen’s University Belfast, sotto la supervisione dei professori Richard English e Fearghal McGarry.
Bertolani Azeredo si è laureato in Scienze Storiche presso l’Università degli Studi di Padova. Durante questi anni si è trasferito a Dublino per un semestre con il programma Erasmus+ per poter compiere il lavoro di ricerca d’archivio necessario per la tesi magistrale. Il lavoro finale, The Irish Labour Party. From Its Origins to 1938, ha visto come relatori il professor Matteo Millan (Università degli Studi di Padova) e il professor Diarmaid Ferriter (University College Dublin).
Precedentemente ha studiato Storia all’Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, laureandosi nel 2017 con una tesi intitolata La Pandemia di Influenza Spagnola, la più grande epidemia della storia sotto la guida del professor Alberto de Bernardi.
I suoi interessi di ricerca sono la storia contemporanea, i conflitti sociali e nazionalisti, la storia dei movimenti politici, fascismo e comunismo, storia d’Irlanda nel XIX e XX secolo, terrorismo, storia globale, storia di genere, decolonialismo.
Archivi utilizzati per la propria ricerca:
Irlanda, Cork: Cork City and County Archives; University College Cork Archives.
Irlanda, Dublin: Dublin City Archives; Irish Labour History Society Museum and Archive; Military Archives; National Archives of Ireland; University College Dublin Archives.
Regno Unito, Belfast: Linel Hall Library; Museum of Orange Heritage; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland; Queen’s University of Belfast Archives; Royal Ulster Rifles Museum.
Regno Unito, Enniskillen: Enniskillen Library, Fermanagh County Museum.
Regno Unito, Londra: The National Archives.
Presentazioni a conferenze, seminari e lezioni:
2025/09 | “Rebels under the Union Jack”. Reassessing Loyalist Radicalisation in the Home Rule Crisis. 7th EFACIS International Postgraduate Conference. Charles University, Prague, 19-20 settembre 2025.
2025/09 | La Dolce Vita? Story of an Italian Ice-Cream Parlour in Enniskillen. 35th Irish Conference of Historians. Irish Committee for Historical Sciences and Maynooth University Department of History. Maynooth University, Maynooth, 12-13 settembre 2025.
2025/06/17 | «There are illegalities that are not crimes» An investigation into political violence and paramilitary bodies in Ireland before the Great War. PhD Workshop 2024-25. Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples, 16-18 June 2025. Discussants: Prof. Brian Hughes (Mary Immaculate College of Limerick).
2025/05/08 | Framing Military Resistance: The Press and the Irish Home Rule Crisis. EFACIS Conference 2025. Åbo / Turku, Finland, 8–11 maggio 2025.
2024/12/10 | Shaping the Youth of Conflict: Religious Divides and the Foundations of Irish Paramilitary Organizations. Religion, Division and Development in Ireland. 3rd CEPH Irish Research Initiative Workshop. Centre for Economics, Policy and History, 10 December 2024.
2024/12/06 | Cittadini virili, armati, e patriottici? Il caso degli Young Citizen Volunteers, Belfast 1912-16. Percezioni e pratiche di (in)sicurezza in Italia: dalla crisi di fine secolo alla guerra mondiale. Prin 2022 – 2022 JNEHAS “Engaged Citizens. Public-private partnerships and hybrid practices of shared monopoly on violence in Italy, 1861 – 1926”, 5 – 6 dicembre 2024 – Università di Roma Tor Vergata
2024/06/20 | “No Man shall ride armed within the Realm”: The Enniskillen Horse and the Irish Home Rule Crisis. ACIS MIC 2024 Conference. Embracing Change, Navigating Uncertainty: Ireland and New Beginnings. Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, 17-21 June 2024.
2024/06/05 | “It may be tomfoolery – but is it legal?” The Enniskillen Horse and the Irish Home Rule Crisis (1912-14). Galway Conference of Irish Studies 2024: Slow Violence X Irish Studies. The Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway, 5-7 June 2024.
2024/04/17 | ”There are things stronger than Parliamentary majorities”: For a political use of violence in Ireland, 1909-1916. Radicalism, Radicalisation, and Deradicalisation in Ireland. From 1798 to the present day. Université de Lorraine. Study Day, Nancy, 17 April 2024.
2024/04/02 | «There are illegalities that are not crimes» An investigation into political violence and paramilitary bodies in Ireland before the Great War. Doctoral Workshop. Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples, 2-3 April 2024. Discussants: Prof. Richard English, PhD Daniel Joseph Macarthur-Seal.
2023/09/23 | The Children of the Empire. Youth organisations in British Ireland between imperialism and anti-colonialism, 1909-1916. 6th EFACIS International Postgraduate Conference. Charles University, Prague, 22-23 Settembre 2023.
2023/09/14 | Italian Labour & Unions in the 70’s – a decade of troubles. Irish Labour History Society 2nd International Conference “Visions of Labour and Class in Ireland and Europe 2023. Liberty Hall, Dublin, 14-17 Settembre 2023.
2023/08/24 | Na Fianna Eireann and the Young Citizen Volunteers “Boys willing to work for the independence of Ireland” & “responsible citizens with municipal patriotism”. EFACIS Conference 2023. Queen’s University Belfast 24-27 Agosto 2023.
2023/05/31 | The Balloon and the Bullet. Children and Young People in Irish early Paramilitarism. Fianna Eireann and the Young Citizen Volunteers. 21st International AEDEI Conference: Violence, Repercussion, Resistance and Representation in Irish Society and Culture. Universitat de València 31 Maggio – 2 Giugno 2023.
2023/05/30 | Manly physique, attractive uniforms, and drill manoeuvres: kids and boys playing with war in pre-war Ireland. Gender and Sexuality History Workshop Easter 2023, University of Cambridge.
2023/03/21 | “There are illegalities that are not crimes”. An investigation into political violence and paramilitary bodies in Ireland before the Great War. Global History and Governance – Research Workshop 2022-2023. Scuola Superiore Meridionale.
2023/03/03 | Manly physique, attractive uniforms, and drill manoeuvres. Kids and boys playing with war. Two cases of study in pre-war Ireland. Irish History Students’ Association 74th Annual Conference. Carlow College 3-4 Marzo 2023.
2022/10/29 | The Handbook of the Young Terrorist. Na Fianna Éireann and Irish Paramilitarism. Economic and Social History Society of Ireland Conference, Maynooth University.
2022/05/24 | Il manuale del giovane terrorista. Na Fianna Éireann e il paramilitarismo irlandese. Student Conference 2022 — “Con quale autorità? La narrazione storica come strumento di (de)legittimazione”, Università degli Studi di Pavia.
2018/11/08 | 1918 – L’influenza Spagnola. Riflessione e discussione a 100 anni dalla più grande epidemia della storia. Simposio Permanente della Storia, Università degli Studi di Padova.
Associazioni:
AEDEI (Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses) 2023;
SOFEIR (Société Française d’Etudes Irlandaise) 2023-25;
EFACIS (European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies) 2023-25;
ILHS (Irish Labour History Society) 2023-25.
REVIEW: Helgren, Jennifer. The Camp Fire Girls. Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910-1980, in “Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth”, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 315-317, doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2024.a926875.
REVIEW: Burke, John. Roscommon: the Irish revolution, 1912–23, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2021, in “Irish Studies Review”, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 312-313, doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2024.2340153.
REVIEW: Darragh, Gannon. Conflict, diaspora, and empire: Irish nationalism in Britain, 1912–1922, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, in “Irish Studies Review”, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 440-442, doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2025.2535780.
REVIEW: Tasca, Luisa. The Science of the Child in Liberal Italy, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, in “Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth”.
Come (non) si racconta una pandemia. La Spagnola nelle pagine del «Corriere della Sera», in “Amici di Passato e Presente”, 15 Giugno 2020, amicidipassatoepresente.wordpress.com
Italian Labour & Unions in the ’70s. A Decade of Troubles, in McGinley, Jack and Ward, Noel (eds). Visions of Labour and Class in Ireland and Europe, 2023. Irish Labour History Society 2nd International Conference. Dublin, Ireland 14th-17th September 2023. Conference Proceedings. Umiskin Press, Dublin, 2024.
Il manuale del giovane terrorista. Na Fianna Éireann e la nascita del paramilitarismo irlandese, in Cefalo, Generoso e Mardegan, Riccardo (a cura di). Con quale autorità? La narrazione storica come strumento di (de)legittimazione. Edizioni dell’Orso, Alessandria, 2024, pp. 85-92.
The Irish Labour Party 1922-32: A Decade of Opposition, in Buckle, Sarah-Anne, Coquelin, Olivier, and Devine, Francis (eds). Retreat From Revolution. Irish Working Class Politics in the 1920s. Umiskin Press, Dublin, 2024.
Manly Physique, Attractive Uniforms and Drill Manoeuvres, in Gaviña-Costero, Maria, Dina Pedro, and Donall Mac Cathmhaoill (eds). ‘Lost, Unhappy and at Home’: The Impact of Violence on Irish Culture. Volume II: Socio-Cultural Aspects. Peter Lang, Oxford, 2024, pp. 15-30.
[In corso di pubblicazione] ‘There are things stronger than Parliamentary majorities’. For a political use of violence in Ireland, 1909–1916, in Bénazech Wendling Karina, Boullet Vanessa, Collombier Pauline, and Heron Tim, Radicalism, Radicalisation and de-Radicalization in Ireland from 1798 to the Present Day, Editions de L’Université de Lorraine.
[In corso di pubblicazione] Cittadini virili, armati, e patriottici? Il caso degli Young Citizen Volunteers, Belfast 1912-16, Millan Matteo, Aterrano Marco Maria, Acciai Enrico, Percezioni e pratiche di (in)sicurezza in Italia, Viella.