Teatime Talk: The Stained Glass Artist of the Dublin Tenements

Michael Healy An Túr Gloine’s Stained Glass Pioneer David Caron

Photograph courtesy of Matt T. Healy

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Bishop Street, Dublin, undated. Number 40, where Michael Healy was born, is the house whose ground oor is obscured by the gure standing behind the child. (courtesy of IAA)

Bride Street (Chancery Lane), (courtesy of RSAI)

Interior of An Túr Gloine, 1906 (courtesy of ESB Centre for the Study of Irish art, NGI)

A.E. Child (based on a design by Christopher Whall), partially painted by Michael Healy, The Annunciation (1903), Catholic Cathedral, Loughrea, County Galway (photographs courtesy of Jozef Vrtiel)

Michael Healy, St Simeon (1904), Catholic Cathedral, Loughrea, County Galway (photographs courtesy of Jozef Vrtiel)

Interior of An Túr Gloine, 1906 (courtesy of ESB Centre for the Study of Irish art, NGI)

Michael Healy, At the ‘Arts and Crafts’ (1904), reproduced in D.P.Moran’s nationalist publication The Leader.

Michael Healy, The College Sports’ (1905), reproduced in D.P.Moran’s nationalist publication, The Leader.

Michael Healy, Elizabeth Kelly (1909), (private collection) (photograph courtesy of Jozef Vrtiel)

Map: Anú Design

Michael Healy, The Pit, Glasnevin date unknow ( collection and photograph courtesy of NLI)

Michael Healy, St Conaill Caoil and Dallan Forgaill (1911), ink and water colour, made for the Catholic Cathedral, Letterkenny, County Donegal. (Image and photograph courtesy of NGI)

Michael Healy, The Convention of Drumceat (1910), with above, Beatrice Elvery’s and Ethel Rhind’s Scenes from the life of St Columcille (1910), Catholic Cathedral, Letterkenny, County Donegal (Photograph courtesy of Jozef Vrtiel)

Michael Healy, page from his diary of 1916 (20 April to 17 May (collection and photograph courtesy of NIVAL)

Michael Healy, 1 O’C, Easter Morning 1916 (collection and photograph courtesy of NLI)

Michael Healy, The Holy Woman at the Tomb (1918), Church of Ireland, Lorrha, County Tipperary (photograph courtesy of Jozef Vrtiel)

Michael Healy, Joshua and the Captain of the Hosts of the Lord (1921), Church of Ireland, Ballinderry, County Derry (photograph courtesy of Jozef Vrtiel)

Michael Healy, St George, Angel of the Resurrection, St Christopher (1921), Church of England, Wallsend Tyneside, (photograph courtesy of Jozef Vrtiel)

Michael Healy, Unemployed men, undated. Private collection

Michael Healy, Street market, undated. (Courtesy of the Capuchin Annual)

Michael Healy, Doubting Thomas with Christ, and Judith and Holofernes (1923), Catholic Church, Bridge a Crinn, County Louth (photograph courtesy of Jozef Vrtiel)

Michael Healy, St Victor (1930), Church of St Catherine and St James, Donore Avenue, Dublin (photograph courtesy of Jozef Vrtiel)

Michael Healy, SS Luke, James, Mark (1932), Church of Ireland, Dundella, Belfast.

(Photograph courtesy of Jozef Vrtiel)

Michael Healy, St Augustine and St Monica (1934), Augustinian Church Thomas Street, Dublin. (Photograph courtesy of Jozef Vrtiel)

Michael Healy, St Joseph (1935), Catholic Cathedral, Loughrea, County Galway(photograph courtesy of Jozef Vrtiel)

Michael Healy, The Last Judgement (1936–40), Catholic Cathedral, Loughrea, County Galway(photograph courtesy of Jozef Vrtiel)

Far Angelico, The Annunciation (c.1440–5), Convent of San Marco, Florence.

Michael Healy, The Annunciation (1937–8), Blackrock College, Blackrock, Dublin (photograph courtesy of Jozef Vrtiel)

Michael Healy, The Second Dolour: The Flight into Egypt (1938–9), Clongowes Wood College ,County Kildare (photograph courtesy of Jozef Vrtiel)

Michael Healy, The Third Dolour: The Search for the Holy. Child (1938–41, Clongowes Wood College ,County Kildare (photograph courtesy of Jozef Vrtiel)

Christ Meets His Mother (1941), designed by. Michael Healy but mainly executed by. Evie Hone, Clongowes Wood College ,County Kildare (photograph courtesy of Jozef Vrtiel)