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at Waterford, but it cannot be said for certain that they were, and 

 this applies also to the " beautiful specimens of Bohemian and 

 Venetian glass ; included among the articles advertised for sale 

 in 1851. 



In the London Exhibition of 1851 George Gatchell exhibited 

 an ornamental centre stand for a banqueting table, consisting of 

 forty pieces of cut glass, so fitted to each other as to require no 

 connecting sockets of any other material ; quart and pint decanters 

 cut in hollow prisms ; a centre bowl on detachable tripod stand ; 

 and vases and covers, all designed and made at the Waterford 

 Glass Works. 



The Waterford factory does not appear to have produced as 

 much glass as some of the other Irish glass-houses, although, at 

 the present day, almost every piece of cut glass to be found in 

 Ireland is said to be " Waterford." It must also be remembered 

 that there was only the one factory in Waterford, working, however, 

 for nearly seventy years, while in Dublin, Cork, and Belfast there 

 were several turning out large quantities of flint glass. From 1786 

 to 1794 the value of the flint glass made at Waterford amounted 

 to about _;j^i,ooo annually, except in 1 787, when it reached ;^3,5oOj 

 while one of the Dublin glass-houses alone produced over ;^7,ooo 

 worth in the year. 



The name of John Kennedy, Stephen Street, Dublin, appears 

 in directories from 1789 to 181 1 as proprietor of the Waterford 

 Glass Warehouse, and in 1804 he sold by auction, in Belfast, 

 Waterford glass hanging lustres of eight lights each, shop lustres 

 of four lights each, richly cut lustres and reflectors, standing 

 chandeliers, candlesticks and every article in cut glass. 



DUNGANNON AND BELFAST. 



About the year 1771 a Bristol glass-maker named Benjamin 

 Edwards appears to have come over to Ireland and erected a glass- 

 house at Drumrea, a few miles north of Dungannon. He did this 

 perhaps at the instance of the proprietors of the Tyrone Collieries, 

 who foresaw that advantage might be gained from the glass 

 manufacture. 



