The
Ennis Chronicle and Clare Advertiser 1805
The
Ennis Chronicle and Clare Advertiser was published between circa
1784 and 1831. The newspaper appeared twice weekly, on Mondays and Thursdays
and was published by Foster Parsons in Jail Street opposite the Exchange
(now O'Connell Street and O'Connell Square). Each issue contained four
pages of four columns each, and measured 18 inches in length and twelve
inches in width. Foster Parsons was one of a number
of printers
active
in Ennis in the late eighteenth century, early nineteenth century along
with John Busteed, George Trinder, Frances Knox and Thomas Knox. The paper
reported on international, national and local issues. The 1805 issues
cover topics such as the War between Britain and France, Unrest in India
and The Catholic Question. Local news items include court reports, business
advertisements and biographical notices.
Clare County
Library has a run of the newspaper from 1788 to 1797, 1799 to 1812, 1814
to 1820 and 1825 to 1831 on microfilm. Bound original issues are held
by the Library for the years 1805, 1810, 1811, 1812 and 1816. We present
here PDFs of individual issues of the paper for the year 1805. These PDFs,
ranging in size from 6.5MB to 7MB, require Adobe
Reader to view and have been scanned with OCR
and are therefore searchable.
