[1][2][3] It was originally commissioned by the Irish Free State government for the League of Nations' International Labour Building in Geneva.

[7] The window was exhibited at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin and by the Fine Art Society in London before being acquired by Mitchell Wolfson Jr. in 1988.

[8] The first panel represents Patrick Pearse's The Wayfarer and Lady Gregory's The Story Brought by Brigit features Saint Brigid.

[13] A peasant woman, from Padraic Colum's A Cradle Song and the suspected changeling Jamoney Shanahan from George Fitzmaurice's The Magic Glasses feature in the seventh panel.

[7] Cosgrove described it as a "most remarkable and successful artistic achievement", but feared that the inclusion of certain authors might give "grave offence to many of our people.".

[7] The work was the subject of a documentary, "The Geneva Window: Through a Glass Darkly" by Irish actor and comedian Ardal O'Hanlon.