摘要:Paul Cullen was the most influential figure in Ireland between the death of Daniel O’Connell in 1847 and the rise of Charles Stewart Parnell in the late 1870s. As Archbishop of Armagh (1849-52) and then Dublin (1852-78) and Ireland’s first Roman Catholic cardinal (1866), he exercised an unprecedented influence in both Ireland’s dominant Roman Catholic Church and in Irish society. What is less known is the nearly 30 years he spent in Rome, first as a student at the Urban College of the Propaganda Fide and then as rector of the Irish College in the city. His immersion in the multilingual environment of papal Rome was crucial in the shaping of his later career in Ireland. This essay traces the first ten or so years of Cullen’s time in Rome, focusing on the important lessons, experiences, and networks that he developed there. Most importantly, attention is given to Cullen’s relationship with Mauro Cappellari, from 1831 Pope Gregory XVI. Cullen’s academic success drew him into the small network of Cappellari’s protégés and informed the whole of his life, including in Ireland.