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Then in Usher's "Answer to a Challenge" appeared one or two 

 words in Old Syrian, but I rather think that these were specially 

 cut out in wood. I should mention that Ushei wrote, in one of 

 his letters, of purchasing Syriac type abroad. And in a later 

 work of the late Dudley Loftus, dated 1695, some words in 

 Syriac appear. 



At p. 313 of Usher's "Answer to a Challenge" appear 

 Hebrew and Greek type and one or two words in Arabic. 



In a work entitled "Logica sen Introductio," &c., printed in 

 Dublin in 1657, some words appear in pure Persian. 



Section III.— (1701 — 1800). 

 I have dealt so far pretty fully with the 16th century and 

 with the small extent of printing in Ireland in that period. 

 (Sec. I.) I have also dealt fairly with the following century, the 

 I7th, during which period printing in Ireland steadily developed 

 and grew and the first newspaper appeared, and there has been 

 reference made to printing in Cork and to the existence of 

 presses in Waterford and Kilkenny occasioned by the political 

 influences and circumstances of the time. (Sec. II.) I have 

 alluded to the commencement of your own Belfast presses, and 

 now, I think, before I close I should make some reference to the 

 18th century printing in our Proiuncial Towns, so that my 

 lecture may be a little more complete. Before doing so I will 

 not more than allude to the immense development of printing in 

 Dublin in that century. Similarly, in Cork, printing, which was 

 very meagre in the 17th century, steadily developed and grew, 

 and the keen wit and satire of the Cork people found expression 

 in pamphlets and newspapers and ephemeral political literature, 

 but the output there of more solid works also increased, such as 

 works on political, historical, social and literary subjects. 



Similarly in Limerick, although printing there was also but 

 very small at first, the output increased as the 18th century pro- 

 gressed. There was a regular newspaper press there from 1738 

 onwards, and the very earliest Directory of any Irish town 



