gth February, igiS- 



Professor J. A, Lindsay, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P., in the chair. 



IRISH GLASS. 

 By M. S. D. Westropp, M.R.I. A. 



{Abstract?) 



The art of enamelling appears to have been practised in Ire- 

 land as early as the La Tene period, and from that time, at least 

 down to the twelfth century, it seems to have been carried on. 

 Numerous examples which can be seen in the collection of Irish 

 Antiquities in the Museum testify to the excellence of the work. 

 During the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries refer- 

 ences to glassworkers, glassmakers, and glaziers in Ireland occur, 

 but as to what particular objects they produced, no mention is 

 made. 



In the Calendar of Christ Church Deeds the name of William 

 the glassmaker occurs in connection with grants of land in 1258 

 and 1319, and in the Pipe Rolls of 6 Edward III., 1332-3, 

 amongst the accounts for works at Dublin Castle, it is mentioned 

 that the sum of ;2^5 13s. 6d. was paid for "wages for a glazier 

 working on divers occasions, and for divers colours bought for 

 making the glass windows in said Castle." 



Probably very little, if any, glass was made in Ireland at this 

 period, and it is not until towards the end of the sixteenth century 

 that any definite records occur, and even these are very scanty. 



In the year 1575 Giacomo Verzelini, a Venetian, obtained a 

 licence for twenty one years to make glass, like that of Murano, in 

 England and Ireland, but so far as is at present known, none 

 appears to have been made by him in Ireland. 



Probably about the year 1585 the manufacture of glass in 



