Renown artist in stained glass who devoted most of his career to churches in the Irish Republic.
The Daily Telegraph today, December 28, 2010 carried a tribute to Patrick Pollen who died on Noveber 30, aged 82. His major works in Ireland where he lived for many years include windows in Galway Cathedral, where he also made the mosaic of St Joseph the Worker; six windows in Ballinteer Roman Catholic Church, Dublin; and, in 1964, the memorial window to Catherine O’Brien in Dublin’s Christ Church Cathedral. Among his other important works are the windows for the new church at Murlog, Lifford, in Co Donegal (1962), where the Stations of the Cross were created by his wife. He spent his last years in Co Wexford.
Patrick Laprimaudaye Pollen was born in London on January 12 1928, the son of Arthur Pollen, a sculptor of religious works, and a great-grandson of John Hungerford Pollen, an Anglican priest who converted to Roman Catholicism and became — at the request of Cardinal Newman — professor of fine arts at the Catholic University of Ireland.
Patrick Pollen is survived by his wife and by their four sons and one daughter.
The Daily Telegraph obituary:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/religion-obituaries/8227234/Patrick-Pollen.html