Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant religious buildings. Although traditionally made in flat panels and used as windows, the creations of modern stained glass artists also include three-dimensional structures and sculpture. Modern vernacular usage has often extended the term "stained glass" to include domestic lead light and objets d'art created from foil glasswork exemplified in the famous lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany.
Henry Patrick Clarke RHA was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator. Born in Dublin, he was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement.
Sarah Henrietta Purser RHA was an Irish artist mainly noted for her portraiture. She was the first woman to become a full member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. She also founded and financially supported An Túr Gloine, a stained glass studio.
Eva Sydney Hone RHA, usually known as Evie, was an Irish painter and stained glass artist. She is considered to be an early pioneer of cubism, although her best known works are stained glass. Her most notable pieces are the East Window in the Chapel at Eton College, which depicts the Crucifixion, and My Four Green Fields, which is now in the Government Buildings in Dublin.
The Honan Chapel is a small Catholic church built in the Hiberno-Romanesque revival style on the grounds of University College Cork, Ireland. Designed in 1914, the building was completed in 1916 and furnished by 1917. Its architecture and fittings are representative of the Celtic Revival movement and evoke the Insular art style prevalent in Ireland and Britain between the 7th and 12th centuries.
Christopher Whitworth Whall was a British stained-glass artist who worked from the 1880s and on into the 20th century. He is widely recognised as a leader in the Arts and Crafts movement and a key figure in the modern history of stained glass.
The Diocese of Clonfert is a Roman Catholic diocese in the western part of Ireland. It is in the Metropolitan Province of Tuam.
Beatrice Moss Elvery, RHA was a painter, Irish stained-glass artist and sculptor.
Lorrha is a small village at the northern tip of County Tipperary, Ireland. It is located on a minor road between the R489 Birr to Portumna road and the N65 Nenagh to Portumna road about five kilometres east of the point where the River Shannon enters Lough Derg.
An Túr Gloine was a cooperative studio for stained glass and opus sectile artists from 1903 until 1944, based in Dublin, Ireland.
Wilhelmina GeddesHRUA was an Irish stained glass artist who was an important figure within the Irish Arts and Crafts movement and also the twentieth century British stained glass revival. Notable works include windows at St Bartholomew's, St Peter's Church, and the King Albert Memorial Window, St Martin's Cathedral.
Ethel Rhind was an Irish stained-glass and mosaic artist, who was associated with An Túr Gloine.
Catherine Amelia "Kitty" O'Brien was an Irish stained glass artist, and a member and director of An Túr Gloine.
Alfred Ernest Child (1875–1939) was an English stained glass artist, a lecturer in the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art and was associated with An Túr Gloine.
Patrick Pollen was a British stained-glass artist who spent most of his life working in Ireland.
Michael Healy was an Irish stained glass artist, one of a small number which included Wilhelmina Geddes, Evie Hone, and Harry Clarke, who achieved international recognition for their work in this medium in the first half of the 20th century. He also achieved some distinction as an illustrator and cartoonist early on in his artistic career, and as an ongoing recorder of Dublin street characters going about their daily business. Healy also occasionally painted in oil, both portraits and landscapes, exhibiting a small number of the latter during his lifetime.
Hubert Vincent McGoldrick was a Dublin-born stained glass artist, one of a small number of Irish artists which included Michael Healy, Wilhelmina Geddes, Evie Hone, and Harry Clarke, who worked in this medium and achieved international recognition for their work in the first half of the 20th century. His career at An Túr Gloine spanned from 1920 until 1943; thereafter he produced very few works in the medium. Along with Ethel Rhind and Catherine O'Brien he was one of the artists at the studio who worked in opus-sectile mosaic, a side-line of the studio. Hubert McGoldrick was also an occasional illustrator and his most recognised illustration is the Magnificat Anima Mea Dominum created for the Legion of Mary.
Nicola (Nikki) Gordon Bowe was an art historian, author and educator. She was a leading authority on the Arts and Crafts movement in Ireland, most notably the revival of stained glass as an art form. She was also known for her extensive research and publications on stained glass artists Harry Clarke and Wilhelmina Geddes.
Helen Moloney was an Irish stained glass artist, known for her work with architect Liam McCormick in the churches he designed throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
The Saint John stained glass window in the Honan Chapel, Cork was designed in 1916 by the Irish artist Catherine O'Brien. O'Brien was then part of Sarah Purser's workshop An Túr Gloine, which was commissioned to produce eight windows for the chapel. Of these, O'Brien's "Saint John window" is considered the most successful.
