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used there by the Cromwellian Party to a small extent for three 

 or four years, but printing does not appear to have been kept 

 up there. In fact it was not resumed in Waterford until 

 apparently about the year 1729, and in Kilkenny printinoj does 

 not appear to have been resumed until after the middle of the 

 18th century. Possibly further research work may yet show 

 that there was some printing during these apparently long gaps 

 of time in these cities. Search in their municipal records might 

 throw some light on the subject and I fear nothing has as yet 

 been done in that direction. 



We find however that in this 17th century printing com- 

 menced in Cork and no such long gap occurred there. Cork 

 remained a Eoyalist City for some years and printing was done 

 there and even after the city passed into the hands of the 

 Cromwellian Party printing continued to be occasionally done. 

 In Cork was printed the first periodical in Ireland. Unfortunately 

 it only extended to two numbers, both of which are known only 

 by London reprints, but the evidence that the press was there is 

 quite distinct and clear. Copies remain also of some political 

 pamphlets printed there, besides the very rare edition there 

 printeid of the "Eikon Basilicte," of which no more than two or 

 three copies are known to exist. 



The printer employed by the Duke of Ormond in Kilkenny 

 was William Smith, and we find him in Cork during the periods 

 both of the Cromwellian Government and of the Restoration, 

 printing occasionally. When one has studied or examined several 

 pieces of printing from the one press one gets to know the type, 

 initial letters, ornaments, head and tail pieces, etc., of the 

 different printers, so that even where only a fragment of imperfect 

 copy turns up it can often be identified with considerable 

 accuracy as th<} work of some particular press. 



Although there was not such a gap in the Cork printing as 

 there was in Waterford and Kilkenny still the extant remains 

 of printing there in the 17th century are very few and it was 

 not until about the second decade of the 18th century that 

 printing became constant there and grew considerably. 



