Shadowed Women of 1916, created anew in textile art

Until August 18 in The Prologue Room at the Custom House
Until August 18 in The Prologue Room at the Custom House

THE Hunt Museum’s exhibition of textile artist Ciara Harrison’s work is on display in the Prologue Room until August 18. This features exquisite embroidered portraits of seven women who shared one destiny: they were all widowed by the events of the Easter Rebellion 1916.

Using a remarkable process involving the transfer of charcoal drawings from photographs to cotton organdie, the work includes a portrait of Kathleen Clarke (nee Daly) born in Limerick in 1878, widow of the rebel leader Thomas Clarke.

Work is on loan with the permission of the Little Museum of Dublin. This unusual show was opened by writer Marita Conlon-McKenna, author of the best selling novel ‘Rebel Sisters’.

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