His audacious designs placed saints and angels next to sexual and macabre imagery giving his work a uniquely strange and otherworldly feel. Clarke produced a series of remarkable stained-glass windows and book illustrations that breathed new life into both mediums.
Synge and Sean O'Casey in shaping the international reputation of Ireland as a modern sovereign state. Emerging during the later phases of the literary and dramatic movement known as the Irish (or Celtic) Revival, he joined the ranks of literary greats W.
Clarke is one of Ireland's greatest, and most controversial, modern artists.
