Selena Daly
Biographic Data
| ID | 641767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Selena Daly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Selena |
| FAMILY NAME | Daly |
| SIGNATURE | DALY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2728-785X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Emigrant Soldiers
During the First World War, over 300,000 Italian emigrants returned to Italy from around the world to perform their conscripted military service, a mass mobilisation which was a uniquely Italian phenomenon. But what happened to these men following their arrival and once the war had ended? Selena Daly reconstructs the lives of these emigrant soldiers before, during and after the First World War, considering their motivations, combat experiences, d…
Dealing with the Material Legacies of Italian Fascist Colonialism in Post-Communist Tirana
Albania was Italy’s most short-lived colony, under official fascist control only from the Italian invasion in 1939 until the collapse of Mussolini’s regime in 1943. However, although the fascist occupation was brief, there had been a significant Italian involvement in Albania since 1923. Thus, the influence of Fascism on Albania and especially on the capital city of Tirana was immense, not least in the areas of urban planning and architecture, mo…
The loneliest of the war’s victims’
Women’s experiences during the First World War have received considerable scholarly attention but the fates of emigrant women have remained understudied. This article focuses on Italian emigrant women in the Americas, Europe and North Africa and uncovers how their experiences differed both from those of women in Italy and from those of other women in their adopted countries. The female emigrants most affected by the war were the wives of the 300,…
Introduction
Studies of the nineteenth-century era of mass migration tend to conclude at the outbreak of the First World War.But what happened to these migrants and to patterns of migration during industrialised warfare?This special issue brings together two fields: migration history and First World War studies.We explore the fates and experiences of the large diasporic populations who found themselves in nations recently determined belligerent or neutral, wh…
Teaching the difficult heritage of Italian Fascism
In recent years, the architectural legacy and so-called ‘difficult heritage’ of Fascist Italy has become a flourishing field of research. These topics have also begun to make their way into the undergraduate classroom. To date, however, there has been little research carried out into the methods we use to teach the history of Fascism in particular. In this short article, we outline how we have applied problem-based learning and scenario-based lea…
Friends and Foes
By conservative estimates, in 1910 there were over 33 million people around the world living outside the nation of their birth. 1In the Euro-American imagination, the transatlantic mass migrations that began in the late nineteenth century loom largest, numbering some 36 million crossings from Europe between 1870 and 1915, although this does not take into account the high rates of return migration. 2It was not only Europeans, however, who were on …
Emigrant Draft Evasion in the First World War
In 1911, Italians living abroad constituted one-sixth of Italy’s population, numbering roughly five million people. During the First World War, approximately 300,000 men returned from the Americas and other European countries to answer the call to arms and complete their military service. However, this number constitutes only 13 per cent of those men living abroad who were liable for conscription. Thus, this article will examine the larger phenom…
Fallen Women in the Galleria
The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, built between 1865 and 1867, is the heart of the Lombard capital. Giovanni Verga, a resident of the city for twenty years, was the Galleria’s most faithful and consistent chronicler in his Milanese short stories. While his contemporaries tended to portray the Galleria as a melting pot, Verga depicted it as home to two distinct categories of people: aspiring artists and fallen women. He employed these fi…
Landscapes of the First World War
Italian Futurism and the First World War
Selena Daly’s work is the first comprehensive study of Futurism during the First World War period. In this book, she examines the cultural, political, and military engagement of the Futurists with the war effort, both on the battlefields and on the home front.
Interventiste nella grande guerra
As Anna Bravo points out in her preface to this volume, ‘the shift made by feminist associations from pacifism to patriotic “support” in the First Wolrd War’ (p. ix) has been neglected up to now, a
Ennio Valentinelli
This article engages in an analysis of the Futurist Ennio Valentinelli, revealing him to be the \nfree-word poet, Acciaio, who was an important figure in the movement during World War 1. \nAfter linking the names of Valentinelli and Acciaio for the first time, the article reconstructs \nthe biography of this forgotten Futurist and analyses his pseudonymous Futurist free-word \nworks, composed while serving with the Italian Army. This account of V…
The Futurist mountains’
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's first experience of active combat was as a member of the Lombard Battalion of Volunteer Cyclists and Motorists in the autumn of 1915, when he fought in the mountains of Trentino at the border of Italy and Austria-Hungary. This article examines his experience of mountain combat and how he communicated aspects of it both to specialist, Futurist audiences and to the general public and soldiers, through newspaper articles,…
Friends and Foes
By conservative estimates, in 1910 there were over 33 million people around the world living outside the nation of their birth. 1In the Euro-American imagination, the transatlantic mass migrations that began in the late nineteenth century loom largest, numbering some 36 million crossings from Europe between 1870 and 1915, although this does not take into account the high rates of return migration. 2It was not only Europeans, however, who were on …
Emigrant Draft Evasion in the First World War
In 1911, Italians living abroad constituted one-sixth of Italy’s population, numbering roughly five million people. During the First World War, approximately 300,000 men returned from the Americas and other European countries to answer the call to arms and complete their military service. However, this number constitutes only 13 per cent of those men living abroad who were liable for conscription. Thus, this article will examine the larger phenom…
Introduction
Studies of the nineteenth-century era of mass migration tend to conclude at the outbreak of the First World War.But what happened to these migrants and to patterns of migration during industrialised warfare?This special issue brings together two fields: migration history and First World War studies.We explore the fates and experiences of the large diasporic populations who found themselves in nations recently determined belligerent or neutral, wh…
The Futurist mountains’
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's first experience of active combat was as a member of the Lombard Battalion of Volunteer Cyclists and Motorists in the autumn of 1915, when he fought in the mountains of Trentino at the border of Italy and Austria-Hungary. This article examines his experience of mountain combat and how he communicated aspects of it both to specialist, Futurist audiences and to the general public and soldiers, through newspaper articles,…
The Futurist mountains’
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's first experience of active combat was as a member of the Lombard Battalion of Volunteer Cyclists and Motorists in the autumn of 1915, when he fought in the mountains of Trentino at the border of Italy and Austria-Hungary. This article examines his experience of mountain combat and how he communicated aspects of it both to specialist, Futurist audiences and to the general public and soldiers, through newspaper articles,…
Italian Futurism and the First World War
Selena Daly’s work is the first comprehensive study of Futurism during the First World War period. In this book, she examines the cultural, political, and military engagement of the Futurists with the war effort, both on the battlefields and on the home front.
Interventiste nella grande guerra
As Anna Bravo points out in her preface to this volume, ‘the shift made by feminist associations from pacifism to patriotic “support” in the First Wolrd War’ (p. ix) has been neglected up to now, a
Ennio Valentinelli
This article engages in an analysis of the Futurist Ennio Valentinelli, revealing him to be the \nfree-word poet, Acciaio, who was an important figure in the movement during World War 1. \nAfter linking the names of Valentinelli and Acciaio for the first time, the article reconstructs \nthe biography of this forgotten Futurist and analyses his pseudonymous Futurist free-word \nworks, composed while serving with the Italian Army. This account of V…
Landscapes of the First World War
Fallen Women in the Galleria
The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, built between 1865 and 1867, is the heart of the Lombard capital. Giovanni Verga, a resident of the city for twenty years, was the Galleria’s most faithful and consistent chronicler in his Milanese short stories. While his contemporaries tended to portray the Galleria as a melting pot, Verga depicted it as home to two distinct categories of people: aspiring artists and fallen women. He employed these fi…
Emigrant Draft Evasion in the First World War
In 1911, Italians living abroad constituted one-sixth of Italy’s population, numbering roughly five million people. During the First World War, approximately 300,000 men returned from the Americas and other European countries to answer the call to arms and complete their military service. However, this number constitutes only 13 per cent of those men living abroad who were liable for conscription. Thus, this article will examine the larger phenom…
Teaching the difficult heritage of Italian Fascism
In recent years, the architectural legacy and so-called ‘difficult heritage’ of Fascist Italy has become a flourishing field of research. These topics have also begun to make their way into the undergraduate classroom. To date, however, there has been little research carried out into the methods we use to teach the history of Fascism in particular. In this short article, we outline how we have applied problem-based learning and scenario-based lea…
Friends and Foes
By conservative estimates, in 1910 there were over 33 million people around the world living outside the nation of their birth. 1In the Euro-American imagination, the transatlantic mass migrations that began in the late nineteenth century loom largest, numbering some 36 million crossings from Europe between 1870 and 1915, although this does not take into account the high rates of return migration. 2It was not only Europeans, however, who were on …
Dealing with the Material Legacies of Italian Fascist Colonialism in Post-Communist Tirana
Albania was Italy’s most short-lived colony, under official fascist control only from the Italian invasion in 1939 until the collapse of Mussolini’s regime in 1943. However, although the fascist occupation was brief, there had been a significant Italian involvement in Albania since 1923. Thus, the influence of Fascism on Albania and especially on the capital city of Tirana was immense, not least in the areas of urban planning and architecture, mo…
The loneliest of the war’s victims’
Women’s experiences during the First World War have received considerable scholarly attention but the fates of emigrant women have remained understudied. This article focuses on Italian emigrant women in the Americas, Europe and North Africa and uncovers how their experiences differed both from those of women in Italy and from those of other women in their adopted countries. The female emigrants most affected by the war were the wives of the 300,…
Introduction
Studies of the nineteenth-century era of mass migration tend to conclude at the outbreak of the First World War.But what happened to these migrants and to patterns of migration during industrialised warfare?This special issue brings together two fields: migration history and First World War studies.We explore the fates and experiences of the large diasporic populations who found themselves in nations recently determined belligerent or neutral, wh…
Emigrant Soldiers
During the First World War, over 300,000 Italian emigrants returned to Italy from around the world to perform their conscripted military service, a mass mobilisation which was a uniquely Italian phenomenon. But what happened to these men following their arrival and once the war had ended? Selena Daly reconstructs the lives of these emigrant soldiers before, during and after the First World War, considering their motivations, combat experiences, d…
History (12 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · History (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works)