Selected: CO. GALWAY, LOUGHREA, CATHEDRAL OF ST BRENDAN (RC)
Name: | BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, LOUGHREA, CATHEDRAL OF ST BRENDAN (RC) |
Date: | 1897-1902 |
Nature: | New English Gothic cathedral of 'St Brendan by the Lake'. Foundation stone laid by Rev. Dr Healy, Bishop of Clonfert, 10 Oct 1897. Estimated cost about £20,000. Contractor: Glynn, Dublin. |
Refs: | Designs, 1897, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; Irish Times, 9,11 Oct 1897; B 73, 16 Oct 1897, 311; Irish Times, 29 Dec 1897; IB 44, 1902, 1021; Tuam Herald, 16 Oct 1897, 8 Jan 1898; Capuchin Annual (1946-7), 353 (illus.). |
Name: | HUGHES, JOHN [2]* |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, LOUGHREA, CATHEDRAL OF ST BRENDAN (RC) |
Date: | 1901-5 |
Nature: | Statue of Virgin and Child in Lady Chapel; bas-drelief of Man of Sorrows over High Altar and tabernacle door. |
Refs: |
Alan Denson, John Hughes, Sculptor 1865-1941 (Kendal, 1969), 414-5, Pls. 89-92 (copy in IAA, Acc. 2005/055); Alan Denson, 'John Hughes, RHA', Capuchin Annual (1975), 126-137; S. Breathnach Lynch, 'John Hughes: the Italian connection', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 10 (1994), 198-99(9illus.); Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 215-17(illus.). |
Name: | CHILD, ALFRED ERNEST * |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, LOUGHREA, CATHEDRAL OF ST BRENDAN (RC) |
Date: | 1903-4;1927-9 |
Nature: | 5 2-light & 2 single-light windows. |
Refs: | Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 57 |
Name: | PURSER, SARAH HENRIETTA * |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, LOUGHREA, CATHEDRAL OF ST BRENDAN (RC) |
Date: | 1904;1908;1912 |
Nature: | Windows, 'St Ita' (1904), painted by Catherine O'Brien; The Passion' (1908) and 'Nativity' (1912), both painted by A.E. Child; panel in porch, 'St Brendan', painted by SP herself. |
Refs: | Bowe, Caron & Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass(1988), 57; John O'Grady, The Life and Work of Sarah Purser(1996), 244-5,252-3 |
Name: | SCOTT, WILLIAM ALPHONSUS |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, LOUGHREA, CATHEDRAL OF ST BRENDAN (RC) |
Date: | 1905-10 |
Nature: | Furnishings, for Dr Thomas O'Dea, Bishop of Clonfert. Candelabra (1905), pews, confessionals, pulpit,.organ case (1906), marble pavement in sanctuary executed by Galway Granite & Marble Co.(1908), bishop's throne (1910); perhaps also altar rails and final form of main altar and reredos. Also boundary wall & entrance gates? |
Refs: | 2 undated detail drawings for confessionals and 1 undated drawing for boundary wall & gateways (for Cathedral?) in IAA, Acc. 95/47; Irish Times, 23 Oct 1906; IB 50, 8 Aug 1908, 493; Jeanne Sheehy, The Rediscovery of Ireland's Past: the Celtic Revival 1830-1930 (1980), 142; Paul Larmour, The Arts and Crafts Movement in Ireland (1992), 132-3 |
Name: | MCGOLDRICK, HUBERT * |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, LOUGHREA, CATHEDRAL OF ST BRENDAN (RC) |
Date: | 1925 |
Nature: | 2-lighta stained glass window (Christ of the Sacred Heart appearing to St Margaret Mary). |
Refs: | Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (1988), 57. |
Name: | RHIND, ETHEL * |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, LOUGHREA, CATHEDRAL OF ST BRENDAN (RC) |
Date: | 1929-1932 |
Nature: | Opus sectile Stations of the Cross. |
Refs: | Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (1988), 57 |
Name: | BYRNE, RALPH HENRY |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, LOUGHREA, CATHEDRAL OF ST BRENDAN (RC) |
Date: | 1930 |
Nature: | Proposed sanctuary additions |
Refs: | Designs, dated 1930, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142 |