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warehouse on the Grand Parade, Cork, and solicits patronac(e for 

 Cork manufacture, as he has no doubt but that he will produce 

 articles of equal merit to these imported. In this case, as after 

 wards in Belfast, he probably was simply a glass cutter. 



About 1870 John Edwards, a descendant of Benjamin Edwards 

 was making glass bottles in Belfast, but only on a very small scale 

 and the manufacture did not last long. 



According to Mr. Richard Pugh, the last of the flint glass makers 

 in Ireland, on the closing of the Waterford Glass Works in 1851 

 some of the workmen went to the Belfast Glass Works. 



By about 1870 the manufacture of flint glass had quite died 

 out in Belfast, haying lasted for nearly one hundred years. 



CORK. 



Although premiums were offered by the Dublin Society as 

 early as 1753 for erecting a glass-house in Cork, no one appears to 

 have taken the advantage of the offer, and it was not until 1782 

 that the first glass factory seems to have been set up in the town 



On November 6th, 1783, Atwell Hayse, Thomas Burnett and 

 Francis Richard Rowe, presented a petition to Parliament asking 

 for aid to carry on the manufacture of glass in Cork, and stated 

 that in the month of May, 1782, at great expense and under a 

 variety of difficulties, they had embarked on the undertaking by 

 sending a proper person to England to take plans of the most 

 complete and extensive works of that kind carried on there, and 

 and also to employ experienced hands and procured the best 

 materials ; the accomplishment of which had been attended with 

 heavy expense and great inconvenience. They also stated that 

 they had surmounted all difficulties and had procured the most 

 ample set of materials and implements, and a set of the most able 

 artificers England could afford ; and that they had erected two 

 houses, one for bottles and window glass and the other for plate 

 and flint glass of all denominations, which were allowed to be as 

 good as any in Europe. The establishment, they said, had already 

 been attended with an expenditure of upwards of ;^6,ooo. 



John Bellesaigne, who had a glass shop on the Long Quay in 



