ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the continuing awareness in Ireland of the intellectual heritage of the Huguenots through an examination of the holdings of works by Huguenot authors of all periods in two Irish church libraries of the eighteenth century, the Bolton Library in Cashel in the prosperous south of the country and the Public Library in Armagh in the north. The eighteenth century was to see the addition of many new Church of Ireland libraries to the existing number. These were usually intended to be used by the gentlemen of the diocese or town in which they stood as well as by local clergy. The Church of Ireland was nevertheless the church to which many of them and their descendants belonged. The Church of Ireland libraries therefore belonged to a church which had a close involvement with the Huguenots and in which some Huguenot clergymen had achieved considerable success.
