David Caron examines AE Child’s masterwork, his stained-glass window for the Dublin Unitarian Church on St Stephen’s Green
L ondoner Alfred Ernest (AE) Child (1875–1939) arrived in Dublin in 1901 with a mandate to commence classes in stained glass at the Metropolitan School of Art that would promulgate the Arts and Crafts principles of his mentor, the great Christopher Whall. He also established and then managed a new stained-glass studio, An Túr Gloine. Child recruited his students into the workshop; he had a reputation as an assiduous instructor and an efficient manager. He himself created approximately 130 stained-glass windows at An Túr Gloine in a career spanning almost four decades. Child’s windows can be viewed throughout Ireland and also in England, Scotland, Wales, the United States, Canada and India. Of all the windows he made, however, it was one for the Unitarian Church on St Stephen’s Green in Dublin that he considered to be his crowning achievement.
Peter Somerville-Large recounts the history of the National Museum of Ireland’s significant ethnographic collection, last displayed over thirty years ago
Eileen Black recounts the life and work of Post-Impressionist painter, Georgina Moutray Kyle
