A group of young people from County Tyrone are helping to keep a centuries-old skill alive. Evidence of glassmaking in Tyrone dates to early medieval Ireland and the first Irish glass cutting ...

How did you get into glass-making? I started in 1969-70 when I was just turning 16. In those days there was very little work about. You took the first job you could get. I had some idea you make ...

Glass and crystal-cutting in County Tyrone was once world-renowned and the craft in the area dates back to 1771. However, it wasn’t until the company Tyrone Crystal was founded in 1971, ...

Waterford Glass has always been proud of its reputation for optically perfect hand-blown crystal, with a ring as clear and sonorous as a bell that has resounded profitably down the generations.

He is one of three current glass cutting apprentices. "I've cut wine glasses, tumblers, pint ... The Tyrone Crystal factory closed in 2010 and this saw the glass-cutting craft virtually disappear ...

Now a group of teenage apprentices are learning the craft. It comes almost 15 years after Northern Ireland's largest glass cutting factory, Tyrone Crystal, closed in 2010.