Our Lady of Ireland

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about 1958 Panel depicting the Virgin and Child with a colourful background of blues reds and purples. technique: stained glass artist: Richard King Church of the Holy Cross, Aberaeron, Ceredigion The window is signed by the artist. The building re-opened as Catholic Church in 1958, and the window was probably given to the church by the artist, soon after. One of two windows by the Irish artist on the Ceredigion coast, the artist titled it Our Lady of Ireland. A similar window of the Virgin & Child by the artist has recently been identified at Macroom, Co. Cork.  (ObjectID=970 ImageID=5746) Original File Name=Aberaeron-RichardKing_DSC3978-71A.jpg

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• Madonna: Mary sitting or enthroned, the Christ-child in her lap 

Ruth Sheehy, The Life and Work of Richard King: Religion, Nationalism and Modernism (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2020), pp. 244–5.

Finola Finlay, Stained Glass Detectives – and a Find! (2021).

Photo © Martin Crampin