Arcabas paintings of the Passion and Resurrection
More work by the late French sacred artist Arcabas – this online gallery of paintings related to the Passion and Resurrection:
Category: art
Arcabas RIP
The French sacred painter Arcabas (real name Jean-Marie Pirot has died : Jean-Marie Pirot-Arcabas was born in 1926 in Lorraine (France). Graduated from the Fine Arts School (Ecole Nationale Supérieure…
St Helen’s Day – stained glass and true cross relic from Church of St Gilles, Mallièvre
It is St Helen’s day, commemorating the mother of the Emperor Constantine whose mission to recover the cross on which Christ was killed inspired Evelyn Waugh’s Helena. Recent I visited…
Stained Glass from the Church of the Assumption, Ballingarry, Tipperary. Part 2.
Following my prior post, here are more traditional (albeit quite interesting and in one case quite intriguing) panels from the rest of the Church. Firstly St John and Mary Magdalen:…
Stained Glass from the Church of the Assumption, Ballingarry, Tipperary (Part 1)
The Church of the Assumption, Ballingarry has much beautiful glass; on these days of intense sun it is particularly worth visiting as some wonderful effects are created. I am dividing this…
Unity of Three in One sculpture, Clerihan, Co Tipperary
This sculpture dominates the junction in the middle of the village of Clerihan (AKA Ballyclerahan AKA Clerahan) which is a few miles from Clonmel. According to a comment on this page,…
“The knowledge of a raven’s head” – Celtic language T-Shirts from Mireog, Ring, Waterford
I recently came across Mireog, a company based in Ring, Co Waterford . I first came across their T-shirts but they have a whole range of products. More info on Mireog: Mireog…
Every gravestone tells a story: from Drangan, Co Tipperary
Graveyards are full of stories. Thomas Grey’s Elegy in a Country Churchyard captured this decisively in poetic form – so much so that any subsequent poem seems a pale shadow.…
Séamus Sweeney 