Colour Photo showing details of stained glass window

Liverpool Irish Festival - Harry Clarke's windows

6:00pm - 7:15pm / Wednesday 15th October 2025 / Venue: Lecture Theatre 7 Rendall Building
Type: Lecture / Category: Department
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Harry Clarke was an exemplary illustrator and stained-glass designer and maker, whose work in the 1920s-30s continues to build his legacy.

Examples can still be found across Ireland and the UK, America and Australia. Anyone enjoying a brew in Bewley’s Tea Rooms on Grafton Street (Dublin, Ireland) will be aware of his talents. Despite a short life and a fragile material, Clarke’s secular and faith-based windows offer a permanence and ways into stories still needing to be told.

Gerry Molumby (The Irish Post) leads this hour-long illustrated talk.

This event is part of the 2025 Liverpool Irish Festival, for the full programme, please click herehere.

Image credit: Nate Bergin (detail only), shared under Cultural Commons.