Book contents
- The Irish Pope
- The Irish Pope
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Translation
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1‘A Super Excellent Boy’
- 2On Liberalism
- 3‘Never Apologise, Never Explain’
- 4Collegio Irlandese
- 5Agent of Influence
- 6‘Paul the Prudent’
- 7‘The Great, the Glorious Daniel O’Connell’
- 8Perfidious Albion
- 9‘Dr Cullen Still Rules Supreme’
- 10Revolutionary
- 11‘Bravo, Brave Cullen’
- 12Power
- 13‘An Obscurantist Run Mad’
- 14Libertà alla Mazziniana
- 15Politician
- 16‘The Deadly Foe of Irish Liberty’
- 17Urbi et Orbi
- 18‘An Unholy Bond for an Unhallowed Purpose’
- 19‘We Asked for Fish and They Gave Us a Serpent’
- 20‘Slightly Evasive’
- Bibliography
- Index
14 - Libertà alla Mazziniana
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 May 2026
Book contents
- The Irish Pope
- The Irish Pope
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Translation
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1‘A Super Excellent Boy’
- 2On Liberalism
- 3‘Never Apologise, Never Explain’
- 4Collegio Irlandese
- 5Agent of Influence
- 6‘Paul the Prudent’
- 7‘The Great, the Glorious Daniel O’Connell’
- 8Perfidious Albion
- 9‘Dr Cullen Still Rules Supreme’
- 10Revolutionary
- 11‘Bravo, Brave Cullen’
- 12Power
- 13‘An Obscurantist Run Mad’
- 14Libertà alla Mazziniana
- 15Politician
- 16‘The Deadly Foe of Irish Liberty’
- 17Urbi et Orbi
- 18‘An Unholy Bond for an Unhallowed Purpose’
- 19‘We Asked for Fish and They Gave Us a Serpent’
- 20‘Slightly Evasive’
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines Paul Cullen’s tentative support for, and ultimate estrangment from, the Independent Irish Party. Cullen detected in the party’s leadership, and in particular Charles Gavan Duffy, echoes of the Young Ireland movement and, behind that, a similarity with the ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini. This identification of independent opposition with Young Ireland, and Gavan Duffy with Mazzini, led Cullen to successfully destroy the Independent Irish Party, a result that he had successfully achived by the mid-1850s.
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- The Irish PopePaul Cullen, 1803-1878, pp. 348 - 382Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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