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Trinity College Dublin

Irish Military Migration to France
Director: Professor Louis Cullen
Researcher: Dr Colm O Conaill
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PublicationsThe Irish In Europe Project (NUIM)

Hiffman drawings of 1786 "The Irish Regiments in France . An overview of the presence of Irish soldiers in French service, 1716-1791."
in Eamon Maher and Grace Neville (eds.), France-Ireland: Anatomy of a Relationship. Studies in History, Literature and Politics , (Frankfurt am Main, Berlin , Bern , Bruxelles , New York , Oxford , Wien: Peter Lang, 2004).

"Conversion and family identity in eighteenth-century Europe : the Dillons of Costello-Gallen". In Michael Brown, Charles Ivar Mc Grath, Thomas P. Power (eds.), Converts and Conversion in Ireland , 1650-1850 , ( Dublin : Four Courts Press, 2005).

"'Ruddy cheeks and strapping thighs': an analysis of the ordinary soldiers in the ranks of the Irish regiments of eighteenth-century France ".
Due for publication in the forthcoming (2005) edition of The Irish Sword.

"Irish soldiers in French service. Les Régiments Irlandais 1691-1791. Irish exiles in France and the phenomenon of military desertion."
Due for publication in the forthcoming (2006) Irish Journal of French Studies.

"Politics, Religion and Family Identity. The Exile and Return of the Dillon Family from the Williamite Conquest to the French Revolution (1692-1789)." This article will be published in (Susanne Lachenicht, ed.), Religious Refugees in Europe , Asia and the Americas , 6th-21st centuries , in the series : Atlantic Cultural Studies, ed. Claudia Schnurmann, LIT-Verlag Hamburg.

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