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Template:Use dmy dates Patrick Pye RHA (1929 – 8 February 2018) was a sculptor, painter and stained glass artist, resident in County Dublin.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Pye was born in Winchester, England. He died in Dublin, Ireland.

CareerEdit

Major commissions can be seen across Ireland. In 1999 a retrospective of his work was exhibited by the Royal Hibernian Academy. He is a founding member of Aosdána.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He has been described as "the most important creative artist in the sphere of religious thought in Ireland in our time".<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

The poet Michael Longley described the way Pye was treated in the last year of his life as "crass, unforgivably crass".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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Dulwich, St Thomas More Church, Apparition of St Columba by Patrick Pye

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External linksEdit

  • Patrick Pye's website
  • Biographical note at Aosdána
  • McAvera B. "Patrick Pye, Life and Work" Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2013.
  • Fitzsimons R.B. "Arthur O'Leary and Arthur Sullivan, Musical Journeys from Kerry to the heart of Victorian England". Doghouse, Tralee, 2008

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