International conference in Dublin on Huguenot culture and exile

Next month Marsh’s Library will mark the 300th anniversary of the death of its first Keeper, Elie Bouhéreau, with a three–day international conference on the topic of Huguenot culture and exile in the early modern period, entitled ‘Elie Bouhéreau and the World of the Huguenots’.

During the conference, an edition of Bouhéreau’s French–language diary (1689–1719) and his financial accounts (1704–17), with an English translation, which has been published by the Irish Manuscripts Commission, will be launched by the French Ambassador in the Lady Chapel of St Patrick’s cathedral, which was a place of Huguenot worship. Bouhéreau’s diary, which has been edited by Marie Léoutre, Jane McKee, Jean–Paul Pittion and Amy Prendergast, is among his papers which are in Marsh’s Library.

Another important focus for Huguenot research is the RCB Library which, by agreement with the Huguenot Society, is the Irish Huguenot Library. A growing body of archives, manuscripts, pamphlets, periodicals and printed books is regularly augmented by gifts and by new publications which are purchased for the Library by the Huguenot Society.

Yesterday in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, at Evensong, the annual Huguenot Commemoration, was held in association with the Irish Section of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland. The address was given by Dr Jason McElligott, Director of Marsh’s Library.

See feature on Sir Douglas Savory (photo above), son of a clergyman, C of I Lay Reader and Hugenot descendant –

[https://www.newsletter.co.uk/retro/son-of-clergyman-who-became-top-academic-and-high-level-politician-1-9100173]