Who were the Huguenots?

Ruth Whelan

• 📅Tuesday, September 23, 2025
• 🕥10:30 – 11:30
• 🏟Newtownpark Pastoral Centre (map)

Ruth was Chair of French at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, where she worked from 1997 to 2022. She is the author of over one hundred publications, including books, journal articles, book chapters and encyclopaedia entries on the religious, political, intellectual and literary culture of the Huguenots during the Second Refuge, between 1680 and 1730. She is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and the University of Paris; she was appointed lecturer and later senior lecturer in French at Trinity College Dublin (1984-1997). She was an invited visiting professor at several continental European Universities, most recently at the University of Geneva. Her book Le voyage extraordinaire d’Élie Neau: du forçat pour la foi au catéchiste des esclaves (The extraordinary voyage of Élie Neau: from Protestant galley slave to catechist of slaves) was published this year by Champion in Paris.