Prof Raymond Pierre Hylton & Dr Marie Leoutre. Dublin - paradigm for Huguenots experience in Ireland by History Hub published on 2014-09-25T15:05:39Z Recording of a paper by Prof Raymond Pierre Hylton (Virginia Union University) and Dr Marie Leoutre (National Library of Ireland) at the 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference. About the paper: Exile to integration - Dublin as a paradigm for the Huguenots experience in Ireland. With the Huguenots, who made up the largest group of non-Anglophone immigrants to Ireland during the Early Modern era, it was always a question of identity. The co-presenters of this paper seek to investigate the myths and realities behind the perspectives on selfhood held by Huguenots, and how they might have been viewed by others. From 1662 - c.1720 thousands of Huguenots travelled to and settled in Ireland, establishing population clusters. By far, the largest and most significant of these French Protestant concentrations was in Dublin. But what the Huguenots exactly did establish there cannot be neatly categorized, nor can it be it simply encompassed under conventional terminology. “Enclave”? “colony”?, “settlement”? “community”? “diaspora”?: all fall short of capturing the totality, and even the essence, of the Huguenot presence there. Integral to the story of the Huguenots are the corrosive forces of integration and assimilation. The question that was posed during Dublin Tercentenary Conference on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1985: “When did a Huguenot cease to be a Huguenot?”, remains unanswered. This paper will attempt to shed new light as to what stage in the assimilatory process the transformation might have occurred; examine the Huguenot population in its three major “waves” of arrival, the experiences of paradigmatic families; and measure the impact of intra-religious dissonance and the pivotal role played by the Earl of Galway. The 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland conference was generously supported by UCD School of History and Archives, UCD Research, Marsh's Library, Graduate Studies at NUI Maynooth, and the Department of History at NUI Maynooth. Recorded for podcasting by Real Smart Media (https://soundcloud.com/real-smart-media) for History Hub. Genre irish