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.

• 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

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.

• 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

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.

• 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