Huguenot Settlements in Ireland

This award-winning book is the definitive account of the principal Huguenot family settlements in Ireland. Mrs. Lee's objective in writing this book was to demonstrate the French Protestant contribution to the history of Ireland and in particular the Huguenot influence in trade the professions and Irish social life. In the process of describing in successive chapters the Huguenot presence in the city of Cork Cork County Waterford and Wexford Carlow Portarlington western Ireland and Dublin she furnishes specific biographical and genealogical details concerning the more successful Huguenot families who settled in those localities in the wake of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. The book is also sprinkled with lists of Huguenot ministers churches (with their dates of founding) apprentices students and so on. At the conclusion of the work the reader will find a bibliography and a very serviceable index to surnames and subjects and at the outset a map of the Huguenot settlements throughout Ireland.