This conference explores Huguenot history and craftsmanship – principally gold and silversmiths, watch and clockmakers and Waterford’s ‘New Geneva’. The contribution of these French Protestant refugees to the culture of their adopted homelands including Ireland is enormous in the 17th and 18th centuries, and will be explored by a number of distinguished speakers including:

Dr. Tessa Murdoch

Ms. Lucy Trench

Dr. Thomas Sinsteden

Mr. David Boles

Mr. Julian Walton

Mr. John R Bowen

Professor Geraldine Sheridan

Dr. Jessica Cunningham

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