Díseart, Dingle, Co. Kerry

Díseart Institute of Education and Celtic Culture, Dingle


  On June 7th 1922 the Superior Mother, Ita Macken, of the Presentation order, commissioned Harry Clarke to create six two-light lancet windows for the chapel in Dingle, Co. Kerry. The fee agreed for this commission was £1,000 (Díseart website).
The windows were completed in 1924. The twelve lancets represent the life of Christ.The Chapel of Presentation Convent is now owned by Díseart, the Institute of Education and Celtic Culture.
Díseart Institute of Education and Celtic Culture, Dingle, Co Kerry, Ireland
       

 

 

References

Photos by © Michael Cullen (for prints/sales Irish Images Books - Text © by Lucy Costigan. Bowe, N. Gordon, The Life and Work of Harry Clarke, Irish Academic Press, 1994