Le migrazioni irlandesi in Francia fra il XVI secolo e i primi decenni del XIX secolo. Lo “status quaestionis”

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to provide a historiographical overview of the Irish migrations to France from the second half of the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Over the last fifteen years, research on Irish migrations to France and the rest of Europe during this period has generated an impressive amount of scholarship, thus demonstrating  how this can be considered a phenomenon which anticipated the great Irish diaspora of the nineteenth century.