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XXI. 



FEINTING IN THE CITY OF WATERFOED IN THE SEVENTEENTH 



CENTURY. 



By E. E. M'CLINTOCK DIX. 



[Read November 8, 1915. Published January 27, 1916.] 



In my communication to the Academy, read on the 10th of November, 1913, 

 upon the subject of Printing in the City of Kilkenny in the seventeenth 

 century, I promised a communication dealing with the same subject in 

 connexion with the city of Waterford ; and I now present a similar list for 

 that city for the like period. 



In both places printing, as far as is certainly known, originated with, or 

 arose from, the organization of the Confederate Catholics of Ireland. It is on 

 record that, finding the need of a press, their Council procured one from the 

 Continent and engaged, as printer, Thomas Bourke. ( Vide Sir J. T. Gilbert's 

 " History of Irish Confederation," vol. iii, p. xi, &c.) This press was started 

 in Waterford city in 1643. Printing there would thus seem to have preceded 

 that in Kilkenny, at least as far as the Council of the Confederate Catholics 

 is concerned. The press of the Jesuits in Kilkenny may have been in use 

 for some years earlier, and the two or three items of alleged printing under 

 date 1642 in the Kilkenny List may have been printed by them. 



Who Thomas Bourke, the printer, was I have not been able to ascertain. 

 There appears often a " Thomas Bourke " (nephew of Lord Clanricarde) 

 amongst the names signed to official documents of the Confederate 

 Catholics; but there is not any identification of him as the printer, nor 

 does Sir J. T. Gilbert suggest anything of the kind. 



The following list contains thirty items, some of which are doubtful. 

 Some of the later items may have been printed in Kilkenny, or vice versa, 

 as I indicated in my former communication. Indeed, the proper way to deal 

 with the seventeenth-century printing of these two towns would be to treat 

 them as one, and, following the chronological order, to present all in one list 



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