Peter Harbison follows the route to Howth from Dublin painted by Victorian artist Edward McFarland
Peter Harbison shares a preview from his forthcoming book on the artistic achievements of antiquarian Henry O’Neill
Peter harbison remembers the antiquarian Lord Walter Fitzgerald
Peter Harbison reviews a collection of Beranger watercolours recently presented to the Royal Irish Academy
Peter Harbison proposes that images on high crosses represent ‘good’ on their south-facing side and ‘bad’ on their north – the direction from which evil was thought to have come in medieval times
Peter Harbison delights in rediscovered watercolours by a master of the genre, Jg O’Brien aka Oben
There are echoes of the old Roman circus on the bases of Irish high crosses at Clonmacnoise, Monasterboice and Lorrha, writes Peter Harbison
Peter Harbison argues that the influences of continental frescoes could lead to a later dating of the Book of Kells
Peter Harbison unearths the works of amateur artist and archaeologist Richard Colt Hoare during his summer in Ireland in 1806
