Wilhelmina Margaret Geddes was born on her maternal grandparent's farm at Drumreilly Cottage in Leitrim on 25 May 1887.

[2] She was the eldest of four children, three girls and a boy, of William Geddes (c.1852-1916) and his wife Eliza Jane Stafford (1863-1955).

This served a useful purpose as he had worked as a site engineer at the Cavan, Leitrim and Roscommon Railway Company.

For this exhibition, Geddes contributed a glowingly coloured illustration of the book Cinderella Dressing the Ugly Sister[5] (Dublin City Gallery), which she had created.

It was at this exhibition that Geddes' work was spotted by Sarah Purser, a well established painter seeking newly trained students to introduce to stained glass artistry.

[7] Geddes contributed a watercolour illustration of a Ballad Seller with the Belfast Art Society in 1907.

It was some twenty-one years before she returned to the Oireachtas when she exhibited three cartoons and three sketches for stained glass in 1932.

[8] Geddes joined Purser at the acclaimed stained glass workshop called An Túr Gloine in 1910.

It was here that Geddes discovered her passion for the craftsmanship of stained glass artistry and created her most important works.

[12] She created a new view of men in stained glass windows, portraying them with close-shaven crew cuts.

Christ holds within his hands a pink and gold stone Byzantine church sat upon a rock.

[1] Despite the hardships of living in London during World War II, poverty, and ill health, Geddes "designed seventeen full-scale stained glass masterpieces, sixteen of which she completed"[5] Geddes died on 10 August 1955 in London[6][7] of a pulmonary embolism.

[18] She was buried in Carnmoney Cemetery, County Antrim,[19] along with her mother and sister Ethel.