All Saints, Drimoleague: clarifications and new discoveries (Pre published)

Abstract

Since the publication of my article on Catholic visual culture in Cork in the 1950s in last year’s journal, some new material has come to my attention that allows for both some clarifications as well as some new insights. Following Peter Harbison, I speculated that the artist of the altar mural may have been the Austrian Hans Schröder (1931-2010), and that it must have been painted ‘between June 1956 and early 1957’. It is now possible to say with a great degree of certainty that the artist was in fact a different man, Hans V. Schroetter (1891-1965), of Graz, Austria, and that he worked in Drimoleague between June and December 1956.