Christian Dupont probes the interplay of literary and visual arts in an exhibition inspired by Flann O’Brien and The Third Policeman.
Christian Dupont outlines the multitalented and free-spirited life of Juanita Casey
Catherine Bowe selects Songwood by Orla Barry from the Wexford County Council Art Collection
Hilary Pyle explores the formation of the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland and the role played by its founding member, Sarah Purser
Residency programmes are the life blood of the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, with each participating artist donating an artwork to the museum, writes Marie Bourke
John Turpin considers a pair of aquatints purchased by the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland, Ireland’s oldest arts charity
Christian Dupont applauds typographer, designer and letterpress printer Jamie Murphy, founder of The Salvage Press
As George Bernard Shaw’s generous bequest to the National Gallery of Ireland draws to a close, Peter Somerville-Large looks at how the funds have been distributed
William Shortall selects Elizabeth Yeats’ dance card from the Cuala Press Archive at Trinity College Dublin
Christian Dupont espies John Behan’s unused drawings for Thomas Kinsella’s ‘Glenmacnass’.
Christian Dupont looks at autograph books from women imprisoned during the Civil War
Peter Harbison reviews a collection of Beranger watercolours recently presented to the Royal Irish Academy
A Micheál Mac Liammóir watercolour leads Christian Dupont back to Yeats’ ‘The Stolen Child’
Roy Foster welcomes Waterford’s Museum Quarter, which celebrates the city’s heritage in spectacular style
The ethos of Quakerism informed the impulse to establish Waterford’s Municipal Art Collection, writes Peter Murray
Christian Dupont unveils Rowan Gillespie’s Four Irish Nobel Literary Laureates at Boston College.
From girlhood to adult, Eileen Lavery inspired her father. To mark the National Gallery’s acquisition of John Lavery’s Her First Communion Kenneth McConkey traces its artistic lineage
Christian Dupont considers the doodles on the cover of a notebook Flann O’Brien kept as secretary for the 1943 Cavan orphanage fire tribunal
Frederick Pyne looks for answers to questions of attribution for a fascinating collection of Irish cigarette cards
