Nicola Gordon Bowe describes the history of the commissioning of a little-known gem at the Ulster Museum by Wilhelmina Geddes
Among the treasures stored away last autumn during the Ulster Museum’s substantial refurbishment is a neglected masterpiece by the Ulster artist, Wilhelmina Geddes (1887-1955). It is a small window (Fig 1) composed of eight rectangular panels of painted, stained and leaded glass illustrating one of the ‘Three Sorrowful Tales of Erin’, the ancient Gaelic mythological story of ‘The Fate of the Children of Lir’
