Editing Imogen Stuart (section)

===Move to Ireland===
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They became inseparable during their early time together, when Stuart would sing [[Irish rebel songs]] to her.<ref name="IS" /> The couple first visited Ireland in 1949 and moved permanently there that year,{{sfn|Robinson|2002|p=217}} at first living in with his parents at Laragh Castle near [[Glendalough]], [[County Wicklow]], into what the writer Kate Robinson described as a family containing a "notable mixture of politics and literature".{{sfn|Robinson|2002|pages=215, 218}} Ian's mother [[Iseult Gonne]] was married to the writer [[Francis Stuart]] and was the daughter of [[Maud Gonne]], the Irish revolutionary and feminist, known internationally as the muse for the poet [[W. B. Yeats]].{{sfn|Robinson|2002|pages=215, 218}} She was not intimidated by his family, being a highly educated and skilled artist in her own right. By coincidence, Iseult was a friend of the German diplomat [[Eduard Hempel]], a former German Minister to Ireland who was a friend of Imogen's father.{{sfn|Robinson|2002|p=217}}

Imogen said of her relocation to Ireland: "It is very hard to describe how different this country was from the country from which I had come. It was a totally different world, on a different planet. The Catholicism, the nationalism, the magical countryside, made it all seem like going back a hundred years."{{sfn|Robinson|2002|p=217}} They had three daughters: Aoibheann, Siobhan and Aisling. Siobhan died in a car crash in September 1998 and is buried in Glendalough.<ref name="it4">"[https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/a-life-in-stone-sculptor-imogen-stuart-reflects-on-her-life-and-her-work-1.4674778 A life in stone: Sculptor Imogen Stuart reflects on her life]". 2 October 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2024.</ref> {{sfn|Fallon|2022|p=12}}

Both were preoccupied with religious sculpture in wood and stone throughout their careers. They held a number of joint exhibitions, notably in 1959 at the [[Taylor Galleries|Dawson gallery]], Dublin, while they both exhibited at the 1962 [[Biennale]] in [[Salzburg]], [[Austria]].<ref name="IS" /> Although she became somewhat overshadowed by her husband during this early period, during which she held only a few one-woman shows.