Anne Stewart selects The Nativity by Baldassarre Peruzzi from the Ulster Museum collection
Fiona Kearney selects Anatomy of Chaos IV by Miriam de Búrca from the University College Cork art collection
Anna O’Sullivan selects works on paper by the artist Jane O’Malley (1944–2023)
Brian Walsh selects the Cúchulainn Shield from the collection of the County Museum, Dundalk
Michael Waldron selects The Goddess Concordia (c. 1816) by Antonio Canova from the collection of the Crawford Art Gallery
Conor Nolan selects a painting from the Waterford Gallery of Art’s collection, Girl by Leslie MacWeeney
Clodagh Doyle selects the St Brigid’s cross from the collections of the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life in Castlebar, Co Mayo
Emer McGarry selects Study with a Piece Cut Out by Michael Farrell, on view at The Model, Sligo
Annie Fletcher selects the film work, How to Make a Refugee, by Phil Collins from the IMMA Collection
Eithne Verling selects the O’Tully Cup, on view at Galway City Museum
Jill Cousins selects the painting Breton Woman by Roderic O’Conor from the Hunt Museum’s permanent collection
Brian Walsh selects the jacket worn by William of Orange during the Battle of the Boyne
Emma O’Toole selects the portrait of Hamilton Knox Grogan Morgan and Family by Edmund Thomas Parris from the collection at Johnstown Castle
William Shortall selects Elizabeth Yeats’ dance card from the Cuala Press Archive at Trinity College Dublin
Roger Kirker selects model ships in bottles from the collection of the National Maritime Museum of Ireland
Logan Sisley selects Michael Collins by John Lavery, on view at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks
Performance artist Amanda Coogan’s self-portrait Medea became part of the National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland at the University of Limerick in 2003.
Eamonn McEneaney selects an early 18th-century silver plaque that forms a centrepiece in Waterford’s new Irish Wake Museum
Elizabeth Kirwan explores photographs from 1919 in the NLI Collection
