Nicola Gordon Bowe obituary

Art historian who specialised in the Irish Celtic revivalThe pioneering art historian Nicola Gordon Bowe, who has died of meningitis aged 69, wrote magisterial studies of two of the greatest figures of the Irish Celtic revival, Harry Clarke and Wilhelmina Geddes, both artists in stained glass.Her work also had a wider significance outside Ireland – Art and the National Dream (1993), a volume of essays she edited, offered a nuanced understanding of global design, art and architecture, in pa