Stained Glass in Ireland
By
Coral - Daphne – Sofie – Uta
Participant teachers in
English Matters’ Programme
Dublin, Ireland
What?
• art form
• coloured glass
• mosaic
stained glass art can be:
• Classic
• Modern
• Smooth
• Painted
• Rough
• …
A little bit of history…
• Real origins of stained glass are lost
• Egyptians and the Romans
• 7th century churches and monasteries in
Britain
• Medieval times: western churches & mosques
• 19th-20th century: revival
Stained Glass in Ireland
St Theresa’s, Dublin
National Library, Dublin
(Harry Clarke)
Bewley’s Café,
(Harry Clarke) Grafton Str., Dublin
The An Túr Gloine ("Tower of Glass")
cooperative studio
• 1901 throughout the first half of the 20th century.
• artists included Michael Healy, Evie Hone, Beatrice
Elvery, Wilhelmina Geddes and founder Sarah Purser.
• hoped to provide an alternative to the commercial
stained glass imported from England and Germany
• "perhaps the most noteworthy example of the newlyawakened desire to foster Irish genius"
• Influences: Arts and Crafts Movement, Irish revivalism
and the artistic tradition of Celtic manuscript
illumination.
Influences
Design for Trellis Wallpaper,
William Morris, 1862
Proserpine,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Harry Clarke (1889-1931)
• studied at Belvedere College and the Dublin Metropolitan
School of art.
• commissions even outside Ireland (Australia, US)
• also an illustrator
• fine detail of his drawing
use of rich colours (especially deep blues)
an innovative integration of the window leading
• influenced by the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements
the French Symbolist movement
the Arts and Crafts movement and the Pre-Raphaelites in
Britain
the revival of the Celtic tradition
Medieval as well as Gothic art
Clarke’s Famous Works
The Geneva Window
St. Agnes’ Window
(Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin)
Gerry O’Brien
Past & Present
The Church pub, Dublin
The Stag’s Head pub, Dublin
The future?
Ciara Cuddihy
How to do it?
Tools
Cutting the glass
Lead
Adding the lead into the puzzle
The result
And now it’s up to you!