The Celtic Art of Sister Conceptua Lynch, a short Irish documentary from 1978

A small oratory in Dun Laoghaire was transformed over sixteen years by the artistic endeavours of Sister Concepta Lynch.

The Oratory of the Sacred Heart was built on the grounds of the Dominican Convent in Dun Laoghaire to commemorate those from the area who died during the First World War.

Sister Mary Concepta Lynch took on the job of embellishing the chapel in Celtic design.  

She was to spend every spare moment for sixteen years decorating an oratory.

Her fantastic birds and beasts belonged to no identifiable saga yet the chapel as an imaginative unit, one woman's private dream.

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