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L'Influence Des Huguenots Français En Irlande (17-18 Siècles) by Albert CarréReview by: L. P. M.Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society, Vol. 9, No. 2 (1938), pp. 173-174Published by: County Louth Archaeological and History SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27728500 .

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REVIEWS I73

of his deliberate choice of a Breach-Ghaedhealtacht?both phonetics and idiom become corrupt wherever English is spoken. Of course the credit for his success is all the greater. Another

handicap was that O'Rahilly's Irish Dialects Past and Present was the only modern Irish work included in his bibliography. Munster resembles Argylle in the fact that it has no broad Fior

Ghaedhealtacht in the strict sense of the term. As a result, these Studies are not anything like

being so complete as are similar works on Donegal Gaelic by such writers as Summerfelt, O'Sharkey and Quiggan. Phonetics loom very large throughout the volume?but the sections on

etymological and syntactical peculiarities are most interesting. It is evident that the morphology of Scottish Gaelic has become much simplified. We read scores of interesting items such as that the autonomous form of the verb has almost disappeared ; the grammatical gender is strictly observed ; the nom. case is used after the verbal noun ; the dual number still persists after da ; the genitive dual is the same form as the genitive singular ; and the dative forms, both singular and plural, no longer exist except in stereotyped expressions.

There is a valuable glossary of 120 pages, arranged alphabetically, with interspersed notes on phonology, grammatical forms, and idioms.

L.P.M.

IRELAND'S LOYALTY TO THE MASS.

(Father Augustine, O.M.Cap. Sands & Co. 3/6).

This is a most admirable volume for the purpose for which it was compiled?to stir up national pride in the heroic constancy and loyalty of a whole people in the face of persistent and

merciless persecution. The narrative is brisk and the interest rarely lags. We fear, however, that it has serious defects and limitations as a historical textbook. The references to our own

county are very rare?even when the author deals with the sack of Drogheda or with the career of Bd. Oliver Plunket. Most of the clergy whose names are mentioned in the description (pp. 99-105) of the Dublin scenes that followed Falkland's retirement?Fathers Thos. Babe,

Barnaby Barnewell, Nicholas Archbold, &c.?were either Louthmen or closely connected with

prominent Co. Louth families (Vide L.A.J., VIII, pp. 306 seq.) The same is true of Father Moore and Plunkett mentioned on p. 61 (Vide L.A.J., IX, p. 64). On p. 39 Primate Dowdall is referred to as "a thorough Englishman of good character." The Primate was a native of

Termonfeckin, belonged to a very old Co. Louth family, and had been Prior of St. John's of Ardee

previous to his elevation to the Primacy. L.P.M.

L'INFLUENCE DES HUGUENOTS FRAN?AIS EN IRLANDE (17-18 SI?CLES).

(Albert Carr?. Les Presses Universitaires de France).

Every student of Dundalk history knows that the town was one of the centres of Huguenot industry during the 18th century. The brothers de Joncourt, with a colony of weavers settled

here in 1736 ; the colony had so developed by 1740 that their cambrics were finding a ready market in Dublin ; such notabilities as the Earl of Kildare, Viscount Limerick and the Archbishop of Armagh were on the Board of Governors ; and the colonists had a minister of their own,

specially imported all the way from Tournai. We believe that they had a church in Market

Street, and that the manufacture was carried on in Parliament Square, now known as the Military Barracks.

The book which we are reviewing?written in French?gives only a very scrappy account of this Dundalk industry, but it nevertheless supplies some new and interesting information concern

ing the venture. The Joncourts, before their arrival, were promised ?80 a year for seven years, with ?12 a year each for two flax dressers and two weavers, and ?8 a year each for two spinning mistresses. A bleach-green was also to be provided. We are also told that Lord Limerick offered to put at their disposal

" des maisons vo?t?es propres au tissage de la batiste

" and also "

des habitations pour les recevoir imm?diatement ainsi que leurs artisans, d?s qu'ils arriveraient

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dans ce royaume." We are told also that an English traveller named Pococke who toured Ireland in 1752, thus described the progress of the work :

Les b?timents sont contigus, et comprennent trois ?tages dont Vun est un sous-sol vo?t? avec de grandes ouvertures sur la fa?ade que Von maintient ferm?es : car il faut travailler sous terre et ne pas renouveler l'air, si Von veut que le fil reste humide ; autrement on ne

pourrait le tisser. Le deux b?timents contiennent huit metiers.

We are told nothing of how the industry declined. It must have been still in existence in

1813, when, as we know from other sources, a grant of ?60 Irish paid to the Huguenot minister was renewed by the Treasury. The Joncourt name persisted in Dundalk at least to the year 1836?for all that we know it may still be here in some anglicised form.

Dr. Carre's book contains 160 pages and is divided into four sections. The second portion? dealing with the part played by the Huguenot regiments in William's Irish campaign (1688-1691)? gives some interesting details of Schomberg's two months' camp at Dundalk :

" Notre camp ?tait au bord d'un marais, couvert d'un c?te de montagnes horribles,

d'o? il sort des fum?es perp?tuellement comme d'une fournaise. La disette des vivres,

jointe au mauvais temps, causa des maladies furieuses : les Anglais mouraient ? milliers. Les colonels, capiiains et soldats des regiments fran?ais n'en furent pas exempts ; beaucoup d'officiers et de soldats moururent."

It is admitted that the Huguenot soldiers were most unpopular with their English comrades in arms?their arrogance and assumption of superiority were the chief causes. The discovery of a plot organised by some French Catholic soldiers from amongst the Huguenot regiments did not improve matters. Letters were discovered that had been written by a French Catholic soldier named Du Plessis?addressed to D'Avaux, the French ambassador to the court of King James?offering to unite all his co-religionists in the Huguenot regiments, and to attack Schom

berg's forces in the rear whenever a battle would take place. As a result of this discovery, the French Catholic soldiers were shipped back to Holland?all except Du Plessis and five of his

accomplices who were executed :

L'ex?cution eut lieu sur une potence construite ? cet effet pr?s de la grand' route que m?ne du camp ? la ville (Dundalk). Ils moururent tous dans le foi catholique.

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The index to the book is very poor. In spite of all that is written about Dundalk, the name of our town is not listed. We believe that all the French names in the book were carefully collected?the others did not matter. We searched vainly for accounts of the Huguenot settle

ments at Castleblaney, Ballinfuil or Coll?n. The general history of the Huguenots is well treated ; there is a useful and extensive bibliography ; the fourth part?dealing with the political, religious, intellectual and social influence of the refugees?is remarkably well done ; but there is far too

much of the Crommelins of Lurgan, and too little of the smaller enterprises, in the portion devoted to the rise of the linen manufacture. The book was published in France, but it can be obtained

(price 7 /6) from Mullan and Son, Donegall Place, Belfast. L.P.M.

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