| Henry Joy - Belfast - 1817 - 524 pages
...which comes nearest [ ] of an j made in Ireland, and really is not much short of it. "Tis very clean and pretty, and universally used in the north, and...think not so much owing to any peculiar happiness in their clay, but rather to the manner of beating and mixing it up. Here they have barracks for ........ | |
| Our own country - 1878 - 714 pages
...lost, namely, "a very good manufacture of earthenware," which he commends highly. " 'Tis very clean and pretty, and universally used in the north, and...think not so much owing to any peculiar happiness in their clay, but rather to the manner of beating and mixing it up." We shall not trace the progress... | |
| Royal Geological Society of Ireland - Geology - 1889 - 604 pages
...Dane pipes " have also been found elsewhere, as in the excavations for the main sewer, Iligh-street, Belfast, in Carrickfergus, in Dromore, in Lisburn,...According to George Benn, "History of Belfast" (1877, p. 35-3), these manufactories were relinquished in 1799. It is not known where the clay was procured.... | |
| Robert Magill Young - Belfast (Northern Ireland) - 1896 - 342 pages
...which comes nearest Delft of any made in Ireland, and really is not much short of it. 'Tis very clean and pretty, and universally used in the North, and...think not so much owing to any Peculiar happiness in their clay, but rather to the manner of beating and mixing it up. Here they have Barracks for we lay... | |
| Royal Irish Academy - Archaeology - 1913 - 528 pages
...comes nearest to Delft of any made in Ireland, and really is not much short of it ; it is very clean and pretty, and universally used in the North, and,...happiness in the clay, but rather to the manner of beating and mixing it up." This statement of Molyneux implies that there were other pottery factories... | |
| George O'Brien - Business & Economics - 1918 - 490 pages
...earthenware which comes nearest to delft of any made in Ireland, and really not much short of it. 'Tis very clear and pretty and universally used in the...happiness in the clay, but rather to the manner of heating and mixing it up.'" The subsequent history of this industry is buried in obscurity, the only... | |
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