Re: Re: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches

Yale University press has just released this book on irish Sculpture which looks to particularily significant:

Paula Murphy, the leading expert on Irish sculpture, offers an extensive survey of the history of sculpture in Ireland in the nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on the large public works produced during the Victorian period. The works of such major figures as Patrick MacDowell, John Henry Foley, Thomas Kirk and Thomas Farrell are discussed – as well as works by a host of lesser-known sculptors. Lavishly illustrated, the book covers the work of many Irish sculptors who worked abroad, particularly in London, and the work of English sculptors, including John Flaxman, Francis Chantrey, E. H. Baily, and Richard Westmacott, who worked in Ireland. Murphy makes extensive use of contemporary documentation, much of it from newspapers, to present the sculptors and their work in the religious and political context of their time.