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In Carrick-on Suir in 1791. 



In Coleraine in 1794. 



In Roscrea certainly in 1795 and possibly earlier. 



In Dungannon in 1797. 



In Enniskillen in 1798. Also in that year at Rosanna, in 

 County Wicklow, there was the private press of Mrs. Tighe 

 then at work. 



In some of these provincial towns a press was introduced by 

 the starting of a newspaper, but this was not always the case. 

 I have not met with any newspaper py^inted in the 18th century 

 in Monaghan, Youghal, Dundalk, Cavan, Carrick-on-Suir, Cole- 

 raine, Lisburn, Dungannon, or Enniskillen, though there was a 

 paper printed in Monaghan and there was a. periodical printed in 

 both Carrick-on-Suir and Dungannon as well as one in Monaghan. 

 It will thus be seen that the provincial press grew and spread 

 during the second half of the 18th century, and undoubtedly the 

 movement in the country which culminated in the great Irish 

 Volunteer organization of 1782 encouraged both the publication 

 of newspapers and pamphlet literature. 



In most of these towns printing continued from the time it 

 was started to the present time, in others it was only for a 

 limited period. The study of the output of the presses in any 

 of these towns is very interesting and informing and no historian 

 can ignore it. 



Having thus dealt, although in a very superficial manner, 

 with the printing of the 18th century I must bring my lecture 

 to a close. 



A great deal of work still remains to be done by those who 

 are interested in the subject. Those interested in their native 

 town might, by research, endeavour to trace more of or about 

 the printing or presses of that town and thus add to the general 

 knowledge on the subject. Often too the printing of some 

 pamphlet in a provincial town has some special interest attached 

 to it. Only quite lately I acquired possession of a Derry edition 

 of Thomas Payne's "Rights of Man," which appeared there in 



