yep. all those Irishmen were laid off and the factory closed so they could move the entire operation to the slave wage country of Slovenia. Funny, they didn't reduce the prices of their product...

The end scene of the doc they said, "200 years after it began, the celebration of light continues". 1783 + 200 = ~1983, there or thereabouts

Ha ha, that’s gas

@@leonardskelton Yeap. Valerie begadon is her name .

@@ADNI503 anything to Noel Begadon who had the insurance business up by the hyper?

@@leonardskelton yeah , think so . Jimmy begadon insurances I thought it was called . But I think so .

I love how connected Irish communities are. Y'all are like small town USA, it's very sweet to see the sense of community.

It’s a totally different process these days, and a totally different company too.

@@leonardskelton eh the blowing and wheel cutting basics are all generally the same anywhere, it's the patterns that differentiate the wares really. I can go there now being a basically trained glassblower and slot into the basic mood blowing teams and be passing off cup bubbles for basic stemware I'm sure. Most anything beyond that probably not but the basics of manipulating a bubble or operating a cutting wheel are centuries old.

And Waterford Crystal was stared by a Czechoslovakian, go figure.

46 year old vid. Look at one of Waterford newer vids. Eye protection AND earmuffs

Also they replaced the hand operated crucible carriages with grabber attachments for a forklift in 1992