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; É.O Ciosáin 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