Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Introduction and Acknowledgements SECTION A: IRISH READERS AND READINGS Readership in French: the Irish Experience; M.Kennedy Irish Literary Review Magazines and Enlightenment France; G.Sheridan Montesquieu and Burke; S.Deane Voltaire's Reception in Ireland; G.Gargett Rousseau in Eighteenth-Century Irish Journals: 'A Wanton and Romantic Imagination'; M.O'Dea French Scientific Innovation Late Eighteenth-Century Dublin: the Hydrogen Balloon Experiments of Richard Crosbie (1783-1785); B.Traxler-Brown SECTION B: IRELAND SEEN FROM FRANCE Attitudes Towards Ireland and the Irish in Enlightenment France; Ae.O Ciosain Voltaire's View of the Irish; G.Gargett SECTION C: TOOLS OF TRANSMISSION The Trade in French Books in Eighteenth-Century Ireland; M.Kennedy and G.Sheridan Ireland and the French Theatre in the Enlightenment; S.Davies Irish Church Libraries and the French Enlightenment; J.Mckee Literary Review Magazines Printed in Ireland 1700-1790; G.Sheridan List of Books Connected with the French Enlightenment Published in Ireland 1700-1800; G.Gargett Index

Promotional Information

MAIRE KENNEDY Librarian of the Gilbert Library, Pearse Street, Dublin SEAMUS DEANE Former Professor of English and American Literature, University College, Dublin MICHAEL O'DEA Senior Lecturer in French, University College, Dublin BARBARA TRAXLER BROWN Senior Lecturer in Librarianship and Communication Studies, University College, Dublin AeAMON O CIOSAIN Lecturer in French, National University of Ireland, Maynooth SIMON DAVIES Reader in French, Queen's University, Belfast JANE MCKEE Lecturer, School of Languages and Literature, University of Ulster

About the Author

GRAHAM GARGETT is Senior Lecturer in French, University of Ulster. His publications include: Voltaire and Protestantism, Jacob Vernet, Geneva and the 'philosophes'. GERALDINE SHERIDAN is Associate Professor of French, Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Limerick. She has published a monograph on Nicolas Lenglet Dufresnoy and the Literay Underworld of the Ancien Regime; an edition (with Jean Sgard) Voyage du Prince Fan-Feredin dans la Romancie; and numerous journal articles in related areas.