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tions were to be sent to Jackson Wray at Ballycastle or to John 

 McAllister, Abbey Street, Dublin. 



A glass-house was erected, probably on the North Strand, by 

 Charles Mulvany & Co., about the year 1785. The name of 

 Mulvany & Co. appears in Dublin directories from 1784, and in 

 the year 1788, in an advertisement in the Dublin Courant, they 

 state that they make lustres, girandoles, glasses, decanters, goblets, 

 fruit dishes, etc. In 1798 Mulvany states that the warehouse in 

 Capel Streei is to be given up and removed to his glass-house 

 in Abbey Street, where the wholesale and export business will be 

 carried on as it has been for the last five years. In 1801 Mulvany 

 & Co. advertise " That they have adapted one of their furnaces for 

 making window glass and are now at full work, they hope to 

 establish this useful branch as completely as they have already the 

 manufacture of white flint glass, which is confessedly the most 

 extensive in Ireland." 



About 1852 or 1853 the brothers John and Thomas Pugh 

 set up a flint glass-house at 13 Lower Lifley Street. The grand- 

 father of these Pughs had originally come over from Stourbridge 

 and had worked in the Cork glass factories. Thomas and John 

 Pugh had as partners George Collins from Cork, and Joseph Marsh 

 from Bristol, all being originally employees of the Irwins. Marsh 

 died about i860 and Thomas Pugh's son Richard, who was first 

 employed by the Irwins in 1849, left Liffey Street in 1864, and 

 with a Mr. Leach, who had a glass-shop in Dame Street, took over the 

 concerns in Potter's Alley. These had been shut up since the Irwins 

 had retired from business. George Collins carried on the manu- 

 facture in Lifl'ey Street until about 1865, when the factory was closed. 



Thomas and Richard Pugh carried on the factory at Potter's 

 Alley until about 1896, when the makmg of flint glass in Ireland 

 ceased. 



The Pughs made large quantities of fine flint glass, both cut 

 and engraved, four German glass engravers being employed. They 

 also made coloured glass of all kinds and glass lamps for railways. 

 To Richard Pugh, who died November 8th, 19 12, I am indebted 

 lor much information connected with their factory. 



