The Head of Blessed Oliver Plunkett, Ireland, Alen MacWeeney

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Alen MacWeeney, The Head of Blessed Oliver Plunkett, Ireland
Alen MacWeeney, The Head of Blessed Oliver Plunkett, Ireland
Alen MacWeeney
The Head of Blessed Oliver Plunkett, Ireland
1965
Alen MacWeeney, artist
born 1939
The Head of Blessed Oliver Plunkett, Ireland, 1965
Portfolio/Series title: Alen MacWeeney
Where object was made: Dublin, Ireland and New York, United States
Material/technique: gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 30.4 x 28.5 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 11 15/16 x 11 1/4 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 x 20 in
Credit line: Gift of Frederick M. Myers and Elizabeth Myers
Accession number: 1981.0200
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Exhibition Label: "Signs of Faith: Photographs from the Collection," Oct-2001, Elissa L.Anderson The reliquary in this photograph, housed in St. Peter’s Church in Drogheda, Ireland, contains the decayed head of Oliver Plunkett, a seventeenth-century Irish archbishop. Plunkett was exiled in 1672 from Ireland and then convicted of treason for continuing to practice Catholicism after it was banned there. He was sentenced to torture by being drawn, hung, and quartered in the streets of London. Plunkett was the last Catholic martyr who died for his religion under English royalty.