St. Fechín by Harry Clarke at St. Mary's Church, Ballinrobe, County Mayo, Ireland.
Harry Clarke's stained-glass representation of St. Fechín at St. Mary's Church, Ballinrobe, County Mayo, Ireland.
St. Mary's has one of the largest Harry Clarke collections in Ireland, where his work was installed in 1923 & 1924. These glorious jewel-like panels come to life here, narrated by Averil Staunton, images by Pat McGovern & Averil, with music by Adrian von Ziegler; the piece is Prophecy from his Celtic Music collection.
The book Harry Clarke's Liquid Light is also available.
Harry Clarke stainedglass at St Mary's RC Church, Ballinrobe, Co Mayo, Ireland
This is an introduction to the history of St. Mary's RC Church in Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo (only 5 miles from Cong) which has one of the largest collections of Harry Clarke stained-glass windows in Ireland.
On the right facing the altar are eight glorious Harry Clarke biblical scenes. On the left, eight superb early Irish saints again by Clarke and over the west facing organ gallery his Saints Brigid, Patrick and Colmcille; in all nineteen panels, sixteen inserted in 1924/25 with the final three prior to Clarke's death in 1931. Some original signed drawings for these designs can also be seen in this video.
The church is open daily.
A Short History of Ballinrobe by Marie Finnerty
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The WhistleBlast Quartet & Ballinrobe Community School in Concert at St Marys Church Ballinrobe
The WhistleBlast Quartet -- Ken Edge (Saxophones and Clarinet),Mary Curran(French Horn), Síle Daly (Oboe and Cor Anglais) and Andrew Synnott (Piano) -- Joined us at our school, here is a video of the concert we preformed together in St Marys Church after our workshop.
ballinrobecommunityschool.com
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BALLINROBE RLY STATION ACTIVITY. Circa: 1956
Fet class J19: No 610, & a fresh new looking Class C228. I got this on a blank vdo tape which belonged to someone who pssed away some years ago. There's nothing quite as old or as good on the tape.
Glebe Street, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo 6th July 2019
A celebration of the people and places on Glebe Street, Ballinrobe, County Mayo, Ireland. Narrated by the famous John O'Connell.
Ballinrobe Sings!
A wonderful evening of celebration of the contribution to music by Courtney Kenny. Hosted in St Mary's Church Ballinrobe. #mayochoral Beautiful music with Sean Costello, Ballinrobe Folk Choir, Ballinrobe Musical Society, Sandra Schalks, Michael Coen. For more details of the events and to get involved next year:
Ballinrobe Heritage Day 2009 Part 3
Ballinrobe Heritage Day 2009 Part 3
Ballinrobe: The Bower's Walk
The beautiful Bower's Walk, Ballinrobe, co. Mayo
Christmas in O'Malleys Bar, Glebe Street, Ballinrobe
St Jarlath
Saint Jarlath, patron saint of the Tuam Diocese; stain-glass window by the famous Irish artist Harry Clarke. See this beautiful window at St. Mary's RC Church, Ballinrobe, County Mayo, Ireland. This is one of nineteen original panels by HC in this church and probably the greatest collection of Clarke's work in Ireland.
2014 Ballinrobe Tacu 2
Blue Drum's 'Happy Parent Initiative' - a 3 day art workshop aimed at parents, creche workers, youth workers and after school programs. This one took place in Tacu Family Resource Centre, Ballinrobe. Co. Mayo
More on Blue Drum at:
bluedrum.ie
The music is a Shirley Temple recording from the Internet Archive and is licensed as Creative Commons License: Public Domain
St Joseph's NS Ballinrobe on the All Ireland march
Ballinrobe Mart
Alan heads West and visits the Ballinrobe Mart in Co Mayo
Ballinrobe mural
Time-lapse animation of a mural executed over three days in Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo, Ireland, for the Ballinrobe Tidy towns committee.