Luca Bertolani Azeredo – IRISH ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL HISTORIANS

Luca Bertolani Azeredo

2025

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Email	luca.bertolani.azeredo@gmail.com
Twitter link	https://twitter.com/luca_b_a
Bio	I was born in Reggio Emilia, Emilia Romagna, Italy, where I lived until 2017 when I moved to Padua for my MA. I have lived one year in Naples starting my PhD and I have spent two semesters as a visiting student in Belfast (Queen’s University, Belfast), and Cork (University College, Cork).
Keywords	Irish history; political violence; paramilitarism; nationalism; labour history; history of childhood; decolonisation; imperialism; British history; youth organisations; trade union; trade unionism; volunteers; yeomanry; civil war; Irish studies

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Nickname	Luca Bertolani Azeredo
Membership Type	Graduate Historian

Experience

Education

November 2013 – March 2017
BA in History at the Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna (101/110 – Second class honours, upper division).
Dissertation: La Pandemia di Influenza Spagnola, la più grande epidemia della storia (The Spanish Flu Pandemic, the greatest epidemic of history).
Supervisor: Prof. Alberto De Bernardi (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna).

October 2017 – September 2020
MA in Historical Science at the Università degli Studi di Padova. (110 cum laude/110 – First class honours).
Dissertation: The Irish Labour Party. From Its Origins to 1938.
Supervisors: Prof. Matteo Millan (Università degli Studi di Padova), Prof. Diarmaid Ferriter (University College Dublin);

January – May 2019
Erasmus+ at the University College Dublin (UCD).

November 2021 – Ongoing
PhD Candidate in Global History and Governance at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale – Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.
Dissertation: «There are illegalities that are not crimes» An investigation into political violence and paramilitary bodies in Ireland before the Great War.
Supervisor: Prof. Teodoro Tagliaferri (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II).

September 2022 – February 2023
Visiting Student at the Queen’s University Belfast.
Supervisors: Prof. Richard English (Queen’s University Belfast) and Fearghal McGarry (Queen’s University Belfast).

May 2023 – October 2023
Visiting Student at the University College, Cork.
Supervisor: Prof. John Borgonovo (University College, Cork).

Publications

Book Chapters

Bertolani Azeredo, Luca. Il Manuale del giovane terrorista. Na Fianna Éireann e il paramilitarismo irlandese [The Handbook of the Young Terrorist. Na Fianna Éireann and Irish Paramilitarism], in AA.VV. By What Authority? The Historical Narration as a (De)Legitimation Instrument (Pavia University Press, Pavia, 2024).

Bertolani Azeredo Luca, The Balloon and the Bullet. Children and Young People in Irish early Paramilitarism. Fianna Eireann and the Young Citizen Volunteers, in AA. VV. Lost, Unhappy and at Home: The Impact of Violence on Irish Culture. Volume II Culture (Peter Lang, 2024)

Bertolani Azeredo Luca, The Separation of Industrial & Political Labour, 1930, in Buckley Sarah-Anne, Coquelin Olivier, and Devine Francis (eds), Retreating from Revolution: Irish Working Class Politics in the 1920s, Umiskin Press, Dublin, 2024.

Electronic Publications

Come (non) si racconta una pandemia. La Spagnola nelle pagine del «Corriere della Sera» [How (not) to report a pandemic. The Spanish Flu in the pages of the “Corriere della Sera”], in “Amici di Passato e Presente”, 15 Giugno 2020, amicidipassatoepresente.wordpress.com

Reviews

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. 1, Winter 2024.

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