Kenneth McConkey recounts the story of how two great Irish painters, John Lavery and William Orpen, recorded the greatest ballerina of her generation, Anna Pavlova
Jean Pasley tells the story of writer Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, the inspiration behind a touring print exhibition by Irish and Japanese artists
This exhibition places Irish artists of different generations alongside international figures in unexpected juxtapositions that enrich how Irish art can be understood, writes Seán Kissane
Margarita Cappock views works from Ann Quinn’s mid-career retrospective at Letterkenny’s Regional Cultural Centre
In Clodagh Emoe’s art practice, sculpture, performance art and philosophy hold equal sway, writes Peter Murray
The figures in Clare Langan’s The Heart of a Tree become a metaphor for the precarity of existence in an age of environmental crisis and collapse, writes Stephanie McBride
Genieve Figgis tells Aidan Dunne she likes to work in a way that leaves room for the unexpected to happen
Louise Cotter visits Kinsale Library in Co Cork, winner of this year’s Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) Conservation, Adaptation and Re-Use Award
Philip McEvansoneya considers the work of Joseph Stafford Gibson, a major patron of the Crawford Municipal School of Art and significant painter in his own right
Mary Cahill and Greer Ramsey present the case for gold workshop practice in the Late Bronze age in Ireland
Peter Pearson recalls the history and highlights the interiors of Leinster House, home to the Irish parliament for the past hundred years
St Mary’s Cathedral in Tuam, Co Galway is a veritable shrine of Romanesque art, writes Roger Stalley
Marie Lynch celebrates the life and work of illustrator and watercolour artist Naomi Heather
Anne Stewart selects The Nativity by Baldassarre Peruzzi from the Ulster Museum collection
