Ireland's Huguenots and their Refuge, 1662-1745

Of the 200,000-odd Huguenots whose consciences compelled them to leave France during the 17th-18th centuries, some 10,000 chose to settle in that most unlikely of refuges - Ireland. The story of why and how these most ardent of Protestant believers found themselves in this most fervently Catholic of islands is one of historys great paradoxes. ......