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THE EXILIC BURIAL PLACE OF A GAELIC IRISH COMMUNITY AT SAN PIETRO IN MONTORIO, ROME
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2017
Abstract
This paper presents the findings of a survey of the funerary monuments and burial vault of an exiled community of Gaelic Irish who were interred (1608–23) at San Pietro in Montorio, Rome. The site of their burial and commemoration had an eventful history that resulted in loss, fragmentation and alteration of the ledgers of élite members of the group, including those of the respective chiefs and earls of the Ulster lordships of Tyrone and Tyrconnell in Ireland. The original form and layout of the ledgers and their inscriptions is proposed and they are examined in the context of their setting in a Franciscan church patronized by Philip III of Spain. The ledger inscriptions commemorate both the suffering and Counter-Reformation confessional identity of the Gaelic Irish as Catholic exiles. They indicate tension between the complex political circumstances of the exiles’ lives in Rome and a concern to provide an appropriate burial site publicly reflecting their status and piety.
L'articolo presenta gli esiti di un'indagine sui monumenti funerari e sulla cripta di una comunità gaelica irlandese in esilio, i cui membri furono sepolti a San Pietro in Montorio a Roma tra il 1608 e il 1623. Il luogo della loro sepoltura e della loro commemorazione è stato caratterizzato da una storia densa di avvenimenti che ha avuto come esito la perdita, la frammentazione e l'alterazione delle pietre tombali dei membri dell’élite del gruppo, inclusi quelle dei rispettivi capi e conti delle signorie dell'Ulster di Tyrone e Tyrconnell in Irlanda. Nell'articolo si propone la ricostruzione della forma e dell'impostazione originale delle pietre tombali e delle iscrizioni, che vengono esaminate nel contesto della loro ambientazione in una chiesa francescana, di cui Filippo III di Spagna era finanziatore. Le iscrizioni delle pietre tombali commemorano sia la sofferenza sia l'identità confessionale dei Gaelici Irlandesi, esuli cattolici nell'epoca della controriforma. Esse testimoniano inoltre la tensione tra le complesse circostanze politiche delle vite degli esiliati in Roma e la preoccupazione di fornire un luogo di sepoltura appropriato che rispecchiasse anche pubblicamente il loro status e la loro devozione.
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My thanks to Joseph Fenwick and Angela Gallagher, Archaeology, National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway); Mark Stansbury, Classics, NUI Galway; Hiram Morgan, University College Cork; Geoffrey Shannon; Rev. Fearghus Ó Fearghail; Lisa Bartlam; Liam Hickey; Monica Price; Aniceto Gomez OFM, Rector of San Pietro in Montorio; Academia de España en Roma; Embassy of Ireland, Italy; and Embassy of Ireland, Holy See. This research was funded by an Ireland–Italy Bilateral Cultural Agreement Travel Bursary and NUI Galway Millennium Research Grant.
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3: 2–21.Google Scholar
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FitzPatrick, E. (2007) San Pietro in Montorio: burial place of the exiled Irish in Rome, 1608–1623. History Ireland
15(4): 46–51.Google Scholar
FitzPatrick, E. (2010) Memorialising Gaelic Ireland: the curious case of the Ballyshannon fragments and the Irish monuments at San Pietro in Montorio, Rome. In Finnegan, D., Ciardha, E.Ó. and Peters, M.C. (eds), The Flight of the Earls: imeacht na n-Iarlaí: 286–92. Derry, Guildhall Press.Google Scholar
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Janssen, G.H. (2014) The Dutch Revolt and Catholic Exile in Reformation Europe. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Jennings, B. (1953) (ed.) Wadding Papers 1614–1638. Dublin, Irish Manuscripts Commission.Google Scholar
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