Our Coffee Conversations are a great way to explore art in a stimulating and friendly environment.
Wednesday 11 February 2026, 10.30am
The Stylistic Development of Irish Stained Glass Artist Richard King (1907-74) in Ireland and Overseas from 1930-73 Part 1
Lecturer: Ruth Sheehy, MLitt
Fee: €5 fee including tea/coffee.
Advance booking via Eventbrite. Bookings via Eventbrite open one week in advance of each Coffee Conversation talk. Tickets are also available to purchase by cash (no cards) on the morning of the talk in Dominick St.
Location: Offsite, taking place in Dominick St Community Centre, Dublin 1.
Image credit: St Anne single-light stained glass window (1932-33), by Richard King, North Transept, St Mel’s Cathedral, Longford. Reproduced courtesy of St Mel’s Cathedral, Longford Parish and the King Estate. Photo: Jozef Vrtiel
Brief Biography
Ruth Sheehy is an art historian and Slide and Photographic Librarian emerita in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Trinity College Dublin. She has expertise in modern Irish stained glass and religious art of the twentieth century. Sheehy received her MLitt from the School of Art History and Cultural Policy in 2007 for her thesis on The Religious Art of Richard King in Ireland: 1933-73. Subsequently, she published this thesis as a monograph entitled The Life and Work of Richard King: Religion, Nationalism and Modernism as part of the Reimagining Ireland series with Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2020. Sheehy has published articles on Richard King in Studies and Doctrine & Life. She has also given talks on King’s stained glass windows and on the religious dimension of his art in other media such as illustration, paintings in oils and other work in vitreous and non-vitreous enamels.
