page_title: Chapel of the Sacred Heart (Dingle)
section_title: Harry Clarke windows
hierarchical_section_title: Chapel of the Sacred Heart (Dingle) / Harry Clarke windows
caption_attribution_description: This window has been designed by Harry Clarke in 1924 and is titled The Agony in the Garden. It was installed in the Presentation Convent Chapel (designed by C. J. McCarthy in 1886) which is now the Institute of Education and Celtic Culture in Dingle, County Kerry.
context_page_description: The Chapel of the Sacred Heart is a neo-gothic chapel in Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland. Attached to Saint Mary's Catholic Church, on Green Street in the center of the town, it was built for a local enclosed order of Presentation Sisters, by the architect C. J. McCarthy in 1886. The original building consisted of a short and narrow nave, flanked by choir stalls, leading to an altar and three stained glass bay windows.
  The chapel underwent major refurbishment in the early 1920s, during the tenure of the order's Mother Superior Ita Macken. Under guidance from the Irish architect and architectural historian Rudolf M. Butler, Macken commissioned the Irish artist Harry Clarke to produce six double lancet windows stained glass widows for the chapel. They were completed an installed in 1924, with three of the colorful and highly detailed windows situated on either side of the nave. The lancets depict scenes from the life of Christ. Clarke was at the time a leading figure in the Arts and Crafts movement and was paid a fee of £1,000 for the works.
  Today it is under the ownership of Díseart Centre of Irish Spirituality and Culture.
context_section_description: In June 1922, Sister Ita Macken, in consultation with Butler, commissioned the then up and coming Harry Clarke to design and install six double-lancet or "light", stained glass windows, at an agreed fee of £1,000. Clarke completed the cartoons in February 1924, and was closely involved in the window's production, overseeing members of his studio (employee's of Harry's father, Joshua's studio "J. Clarke & Sons", which from 1930 became "Harry Clarke Stained Glass Ltd"). The artist Philip Deegan was particularly involved in their execution.
  The windows were completed and installed in the chapel in March 1924. Shortly after, Clarke wrote to Macken, recounting "the pleasure of hearing from Mr Butler to the effect that he has visited Dingle, and that the windows are in every effect satisfactory."
  The six double lancet windows each show a scene from the life of Christ.
  The Visit of the Magi - This diptych begins with an angel positioned over Jesus. The second lancet, or light, shows Mary wearing a blue cloak, with Christ Child straggling her lap.
  The Baptism of Jesus - His baptism at the river Jordan is witnessed three angels.
  Let the little children come to me - Mary holds an infant in long swaddling clothes in the first lancet, as two disciples stand behind her. In the second, Jesus sits among a group of children.
  The Sermon on the Mount - The upper glass panels of the first lancet show six disciples attending Jesus' most celebrated teachings as recounted in the Gospel of Matthew. In the second, Jesus speaks to a crowd from an elevated mound, where he is attended by two disciples.
  The Agony in the Garden - The first light shows an angel watching over Jesus. The second shows Jesus' anguish on the Mount of Olives on the night before his crucifixion. A disciples sleeps on a bed of flowers beside him.
  Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene  - The cliffs above Mary Magdalene contain a town and a detailed view of women in silver and gold cloaks walking across cobblestones.
caption: Harry Clarke, The Agony in the Garden (detail)
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