Visualizing the Celtic Revival: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Ireland—Selected Writings by Nicola Gordon Bowe. Róisín Kennedy (ed.)

Visualising the Celtic Revival is an unusual publication, a posthumous collection of the late Nicola Gordon Bowe’s writing on the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement, edited by Irish art historian Róisín Kennedy. It includes articles written over the course of Gordon Bowe’s career and as an anthology of her short-form writing, demonstrates both the breadth of her scholarship and the development of her thinking. An influential figure in Irish design and craft history, Gordon Bowe was best known for her books on Irish stained glass artists Harry Clarke and Wilhelmina Geddes, as well as her broader writing on the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement.1 Both her groundbreaking book on Irish stained glass artist and illustrator Harry Clarke and her later monograph on Wilhelmina Geddes balanced biography and social context with discussion of working process and output, based on careful analysis of both windows and drawings. Gordon Bowe was instrumental in recognizing the parallel trajectories of national romanticism across Eastern Europe and Scandinavia.2