The Mass in a Connemara Cabin, a work believed to have been lost, hung for a century in the presbytery of St Patrick's Church in Edinburgh. Painted in the year 1883, the Irish artist Aloysius O'Kelly created this scene of the domestic Irish celebrating their faith during times of repression.

The piece features a crowd forced into a small cabin to celebrate mass in secrecy during a time of Catholic suppression. Amidst the ordinary tools of everyday life - a butter churn, pots, dishes, a kitchen table - young girls, working men, and housewives kneel in reverence while a young priest reveals Christ in the Eucharist to them during the celebration of the Mass. This gathering highlights how the celebration of the Mass forged the social bonds and heritage of the Irish people when their faith and culture was repressed, along with the closeness of the community with the priest. The original oil on canvas painting - although lost for about 100 years - now hangs in the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin.