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Saturday / Dé Sathairn
As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Harry Clarke’s vision for the Chapel of the Presentation Convent, now part of the Díseart Institute of Irish Spirituality and Culture, this lecture will explore the artistry, individuality, and inventiveness of Clarke’s work in glass. It will consider Clarke’s response to the complexities of the age he lived in, not least the turbulence of Irish politics, the cultural revival, and modernism.
I Séipéal Clochar na Toirbhirte, áit atá anois mar chuid d’Institúid Spioradáltacta agus Cultúir Eireann An Diseart, tá 100 bliain d’fhís Harry Clarke á cheiliúradh. Scrúdóidh an léacht seo elaíontacht, indibhidiúlacht agus an samhlaíocht fé leith atá le sonrú i saothar Clarke i ngloinne. Tabharfar léargas ar conas mar a tháinig sé i dtír ar ar cheisteanna casta a ré fhéin , go háirithe an pholaitíocht suaite, an athbheochan chultúra agus an nua-aoiseachtas.
Dr Ann Wilson lectures in Visual Culture in the Crawford College of Art and Design, MTU, Cork. She has published articles on the imagery and decoration of neo Gothic Irish churches, including several papers on St. Colman’s Cathedral in Cobh and a book on St. Finbarr’s Cathedral in Cork. She has also published articles and chapters on Irish Catholic visual culture and revivalism, and specifically on the work of the Irish sculptor Seamus Murphy and the stained-glass artist Harry Clarke. She has also recently published a book on picture postcard culture in early twentieth-century Ireland.
