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Pride, Pottery and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

PAWEŁ HAMERA

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When people buy pottery they usually do it in order to use it as crockery or as an ornament. Being a product of artistic expression clayware can have a symbolic meaning as well. It can be inextricably linked with a certain country, town or region, which is visibly impressed on its surface. As a result, the skill of making beautiful things from clay can be connected with national identity.Irish Pottery The first examples of Irish pottery can be traced back to the Neolithic period. These were rude and rudimentary examples of crockery. Some of the earliest extant specimens of Irish pottery, vessels for food or cinerary urns, come from the Bronze age. They have been found mostly in the Irish crannogs. Irish medieval cathedrals and monasteries contain encaustic tiles which might have been made in Ireland. A few potteries cropped up in Ireland in the eighteenth century. Potteries were established in Belfast, Wexford, Dublin, Rostrevor in County Down, Limerick, Youghal, Cork, Waterford and Newry. Many of them produced coarse wares and, in general, most of them were short-lived endeavors that did not earn too much recognition. One exception was World’s End Pottery, a company established in the 1730s in Dublin by John Chambers. The company was acquired later on by Captain Henry Delamain, who ran it successfully until his death. He was able to develop his pottery thanks to the fi nancial support from the Dublin Society and the Irish House of Commons. Delamain spent the money to perfect his coal kilns used to fi re and glaze earthenware so that coal did not discolor the wares. After his death the company was run by his wife and later on by his brother. In the late 1760s it was taken over by the workers of the pottery; however, it ceased to exist in the 1770s (Dudley Westropp, Delamain, 1914-1916). Nationalism in Ireland For Ireland the nineteenth century was an ongoing battle for independence. The century was dominated by two Irish [...]

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