THE HISTORY

OF

IRISH PERIODICAL LITERATURE,

FROM THE END OF THE 17TH TO THE MIDDLE OF THE
19TH CENTURY,

ITS ORIGIN, PROGRESS, AND RESULTS;

WITH NOTICES OF REMARKABLE PERSONS CONNECTED WITH THE PRESS

IN IRELAND DURING THE PAST TWO CENTURIES.

BY

RICHARD ROBERT MADDEN, M.R.I.A.,

Author of "Life and Correspondence of Lady Blessington," "Life and Martyrdom of
Savonarola,"

," "Shrines and Sepulchres of the Old and New World," "Galileo
and the Inquisition," "Travels in the East," "Phantasmata,

or Illusions and Fanaticisms," &c.

VOL. II.

London:

T. C. NEWBY, 30, WELBECK STREET,

1867.

EARLY IRISH LITERATURE.

CHAPTER I.

"THE DUBLIN JOURNAL."

"BEING the freshest advices, foreign and domestick.
"Published by George Faulkner.

"Printed (first) at Pembroke Court, Castle Street;
(subsequently) at the Bridge, Essex Street, removed
from Skinner's Row, Dublin. 1725."

This journal, published twice weekly, small folio size,
four pages, at the commencement of its career, was not.
superior, in any respect, to its principal cotemporaries—
"Pue's Occurrences," "The Dublin Courant," "Reilly's
Newsletter," &c.

The patriarch of the Irish press, the venerable
"Dublin Journal," that lived in the days of Swift, and
died at the good round age of 100 years, first saw the
light of day the 27th of March, 1725. It was published
originally twice weekly, at 1d., in twelve columns, on
pages, subsequently thrice weekly.

four