Series 8 - Harry Clarke Stained Glass Windows

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IE PVBM DIN/25/8

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Harry Clarke Stained Glass Windows

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  • 1923 - 1992 (Creation)

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(1600-2023)

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Includes Letter to Reverend Mother with a Sketch Plan of the Harry Clarke windows; article about Harry Clarke, R.H.A. Dublin Stained Glass Artist, by William J. Dowling; newspaper article from, ‘The Irish Times’, 14 December 1989, entitled An Irishman’s Diary about Harry Clarke; letter from Cotter and Scanlon Stained Glass Artists, 30 Wellington Road, Cork, to Sr Claver [Fuller], concerning the reinstalling of the window in the Convent Chapel; postcards showing details of the Harry Clarke windows in various places in Ireland; booklet entitled ‘the way of the Cross’ showing the stained glass windows in Lough Derg; letters from Sr Dorothy Costelloe to Mr Ken Ryan and Sr Sheila Kelly relating to the documentation for the restoration of the windows; newspaper article from ‘The Irish Times’, 14 January 1989, entitled, A poet of light; articles re the Evie Hone stained glass windows in Tullabeg, Rahan, County Offaly; letter from Bishop Diarmaid Ó Suilleabháin, Bishop of Kerry to Sr Teresa [Joan Crowley], re the preservation and restoration of the windows; letter to Sr Dorothy Costelloe from Fr Kevin A Laheen S J, concerning the windows; leaflet entitled ‘The Stations of the Cross in Stained Glass’, by Harry Clarke from St. Patrick’s Purgatory, Lough Derg, County Donegal; article on ‘The Restoration of Stained Glass’ from Tidings – Tuam Diocesan Magazine, Summer 1990; article on the Stained Glass windows from ‘Ireland of the Welcomes’, magazine Vol 40. No. 2 March – April 1991; letter from Ken Ryan, The Abbey Stained Glass Windows Studios, 18 Old Kilmainham, Kilmainham, Dublin 8, Ireland to Sr. Teresa [Joan Crowley], re the contract of restoring the windows; letter from Michael C. Larkin, Solicitor, to Sr. Teresa concerning the insurance of the windows while the restoration is being carried out; and coloured photographs of the stained glass windows, a history of the convent and the stained glass windows.

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