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| Gilbert CLARK | ? | ? | ? | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Joshua Joseph CLARK | Bridget MACGONAGLE | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Henry Patrick Clarke | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ann CLARKE | Michael CLARKE | David CLARKE | |||||||||||||||||||||
- Husband of Margaret Crilley
- Husband of Margaret Crilley
- Birth date: 17 MAR 1887
- Birth place: 33 North Frederick Street, Dublin
- Death date: 6 JAN 1931
- Death place: Coire, Switzerland
Born Henry Patrick Clarke.Educated Belvedere College and Dublin Metropolitan School of Art.
Harry Clarke was born on March 17th, 1889 in North FrederickStreet, Dublin, where his father Joshua had a decorating and stainedglass business. While still at school with the Jesuits in Belvedere,Clarke showed promise in drawing and art and was described as areserved and sensitive boy. He was apprenticed in 1905 for five yearsto his father's business while attending schools of art in Dublin andLondon for periods in between. By 1914, he had studied, exhibited, wona travelling studentship, and travelled to Paris and Chartres. Hisfirst stained glass commission was for the windows of the Honan chapelin University College Cork, which was completed in 1917. Between 1917and his early death in 1931, in spite of ill health, he carried outover forty commissions for churches in Ireland, Great Britain andelsewhere. One of his most famous works is the Geneva Window,commissioned by the state for the International Labour Building of theUnited Nations.
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