Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

By what channels did the French Enlightenment reach the eighteenth-century Irish reader, and what impact did it have? What were the images of Ireland current in the France of the philosophers like Voltaire? These are the questions which a team of scholars attempt to answer in this volume.

This book is a major study of child readers and their reading habits in the period when children's literature first became established.