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After decades of warfare and centuries of religious strife, the concepts of economic growth and improvement within a stable political system were very much in vogue in Ireland during the first decades of the eighteenth century.

The Dublin Society was founded in 1731 to promote agriculture, manufacturing and science in Ireland. This advertisement was produced on Irish-made paper by Aaron Rhames of Capel Street, the official printer to the Dublin Society. It advertises the services of James Scot of County Down who had much experience in Scotland and Ireland of the ‘great Improvement of Land, which is made by Marle’, a fertiliser derived from soils composed of clay and limestone.

The Dublin Society also used this printed advertisement to give notice of the services of a James Haffield, who had experience of planting hops, and the invention by Edward Constable of High Street, Dublin, of modifications which improved the performance of agricultural ploughs.

Citation:
Advertisement (Dublin, 1733).,
Marsh's Library Exhibits,
accessed August 5, 2025,
https://www.marshlibrary.ie/digi/items/show/485