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Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



The last publication I shall here mention is one consisting only of 

 four leaves, and of -^hich but one copy is known to exist. It was printed 

 at Rome in 1596, and entitled ''Relatione della guerra d'Hibernia." 

 The main subject is a victory obtained by the Earl of Tyrone over Sir 

 John Norris, Gerent for England. Korris is described as a captain of 

 great experience. The Earl of Tyrone, the writer mentions as now 

 styled " il gran principe Dion eel." 



Note. — For the other known specimens of Dublin printing prior to 1601 see 

 "The Earliest Dublin Printing" (1902, O'Donoghue & Co.). Sir JohnT. Gilbert 

 does not refer to printing at Waterford in 1555. No doubt, the genuineness of such 

 printing is seriously questioned, but not disproved. An article on the point will 

 be found in the *' Journal of the Waterfordand South-East of Ireland Archaeological 

 Society," Vol. II., p. 209 (October, 1896), by Mr. James Euckley ; and it is also 

 dealt with in an article on "Irish Provincial Printing prior to 1701," in The 

 Library, Vol. II. (N.S.), p. 341.— E. R. M'C. D. 



SECOIsD PAPER. 



Read 14 June, 1897. 



At a former meeting I communicated to the Academy some details 

 of Irish bibliography from the time of the introduction of printing to 

 the year 1599. 



I now propose to bring under your notice some particulars in 

 relation to Irish bibliography in the seventeenth century. 



This undertaking demands a greater amount of labour and investi- 

 gation than might be supposed, as no work on Irish bibliography of 

 that period has hitherto appeared in print, and most of the publica- 

 tions referred to are of great rarity.^ 



In the seventeenth century the subject may be considered under 

 the heads of publications issued in Ireland, in Great Britain, and on 

 the Continent. 



During the greater part of the seventeenth century there was 

 little printing in Ireland, except that which was carried on at Dublin. 



1 There have now appeared Mr. John Anderson's List of Belfast Printed Books 

 and two Supplements, beginning with 1696 ; and three parts of my List of Dublin 

 Printed Books, &c., of the seventeenth century. There have also appeared in the 

 "Journal of the "Waterford and South-East of Ireland Archoeological Society," 

 from time to time, particulars of books, &c., printed in AVaterford, Kilkenny, &c., 

 in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, compiled by Mr. James Coleman, who 

 also compiled a List of Limerick printing, M-hich appeared in the early numbers 

 of the " Journal " of the Limerick Field Club. A List of Cork Printed Books of 

 these centuries, commencing inYol. VI. (Second Series), p. 170, of the "Journal 

 of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society," ]}as just been completed. 



