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Stained Glass in Ireland By Coral - Daphne – Sofie – Uta Participant teachers in English Matters’ Programme Dublin, Ireland

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Page 1: Stained Glass in Ireland - English Matters · stained glass imported from England and Germany • "perhaps the most noteworthy example of the newly - awakened desire to foster Irish

Stained Glass in Ireland

By Coral - Daphne – Sofie – Uta

Participant teachers in English Matters’ Programme

Dublin, Ireland

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What? • art form • coloured glass • mosaic stained glass art can be: • Classic • Modern • Smooth • Painted • Rough • …

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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

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Stained Glass in Ireland

St Theresa’s, Dublin

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National Library, Dublin (Harry Clarke)

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Bewley’s Café, (Harry Clarke) Grafton Str., Dublin

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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 newly-

awakened desire to foster Irish genius" • Influences: Arts and Crafts Movement, Irish revivalism

and the artistic tradition of Celtic manuscript illumination.

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Influences

Proserpine, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Design for Trellis Wallpaper, William Morris, 1862

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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

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Clarke’s Famous Works The Geneva Window

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St. Agnes’ Window (Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin)

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Gerry O’Brien

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Past & Present

The Church pub, Dublin The Stag’s Head pub, Dublin

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The future?

Ciara Cuddihy

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How to do it?

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Tools

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Cutting the glass

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Lead

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Adding the lead into the puzzle

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The result

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And now it’s up to you!