Season’s Greetings from Roaringwater Journal

Details from a set of stained glass windows, all by George Stephen Walsh in the Nativity of Our Lady Church, Loughmore, Co Tipperary, dating to 1977. George Stephen apprenticed under Harry Clarke, presenting himself at Harry’s studio 100 years ago, in 1925. The family story is that when Harry saw his portfolio, he said Can you start at 10:30? George Stephen was 14.

George Stephen went on to have a long and distinguished career as an artist, and his son, George W Walsh carries on that tradition from his studio in Dublin.

Wishing all our dear readers a very merry holiday season and all the myrrh and frankincense you desire.

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  1. Good to see the wonderful Loughmore windows. Thanks to the Gazetteer we have seen his work in Tagoat and Rosslare Harbour. All good wishes for 2026. Niall and Alastair

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  2. Finola, I greet you on this Christmas day with the first verse of one of the greatest poems on the Nativity:ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST’S NATIVITY

    By John Milton

    This is the month, and this the happy morn,

          Wherein the Son of Heav’n’s eternal King,

    Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother born,

          Our great redemption from above did bring;

          For so the holy sages once did sing,

                That he our deadly forfeit should release,

                And with his Father work us a perpetual peace.

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