Clarke Studios: The African Connection

The Clarke Studios Symposium 06 February 2015

Dr Fiona Bateman, NUI Galway

Killeshandra window (1948)

Images of Bishop Shanahan

Detail of Bishop Joseph ShanahanKilleshandra Window

Killeshandra window 1948-9

Head tie detail: Killeshandra window

Photos supplied for Killeshandra window

‘…the child on her back is extremely well done.’ Letter from Sr M. Catherine, Killeshandra, 30 June 1948

Calabar Cathedral

Window in Calabar Cathedral

Profile photo from Killeshandra file (marked: ‘shoulder detail’)

Detail from a photo – more profiles

Male African figure in the Killeshandra window.

Letters from Sr Teresa Dymphna, Carmelite Convent, Nairobi. (1958)

• ‘Fra Angelicus angels – some of them anyway – are beautiful. I don’t care much for the modern type with bobbed hair etc.’

• In May 1958, she reported that she was delighted with the beautiful designs: ‘they are like the dream angels I had in mind but could not satisfactorily describe’…‘I should like the faces strong and manly – not the girlish sort.’

Side windows from the Carmelite Convent, Nairobi (fitted 19th March 1959).

Carmelite Convent, Nairobi

For their help in researching details and finding images, I am grateful to Fr Tim Redmond in Kiltegan; Fr Edmund Hogan, SMA; Dr Brian Kirby Provincial Archivist for the Capuchin Fathers; and Ken Ryan, Abbey Stained Glass.