Diary of the Art Year in Ireland:
Paul Spellman and Margarita Cappock chronicle noteworthy events and exhibitions between September 1999 and August 2000

Purring with Pleasure: The New Chester Beatty Library
Pat Donlon visits the CBL Galleries at Dublin Castle

Frederick Prussia Plowman: A Dublin Painter of the Late-18th Century
Michael Wynne has spotted a new name in Strickland

Jeanne Sheehy (1939-99)
Julian Campbell pays tribute to a distinguished scholar whose untimely death closes a chapter of Irish art and architectural history

A Lost Leader: M J McNamara and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Cork
Brian Lalor rediscovers a forgotten sculptor and teacher

Bleak House: The Pollexfen Ancestry of the Yeats Family
Gifford Lewis recalls a notable Devon family

The Elusive Sir Edward Lovett Pearce
Jeremy Williams proposes some possible additions to the oeuvre of Ireland's first Palladian architect in a series of speculative reconstruction drawings.

William Dargan and the Worcester Shakespeare Service
Kevin Curry sketches the Irish origins of a famous set of porcelain

In the Shadow of the Sidhe: Arthur Kingsley Porter's Vision of an Exotic Ireland
Carol Neuman de Vegvar assesses an early study of Irish high crosses

'Irish Artists on Irish Subjects': The Cooper Collection in The National Library
Peter Harbison selects some highlights from an historic cache of antiquarian drawings

A Colourful Spectacle Restored: The State Coach of the Lord Mayor of Dublin
Philip McEvansoneya explains the iconography of the city's splendid ceremonial carriage

A Capital Tale: Some Relicts of Pearce's Parliament House Rediscovered
Jane Meredith investigates the fate of ten capitals from columns in the old Parliament House in Dublin

New Irish Architecture: The Architectural Year Reviewed
Ciaran Carson appraises some new buildings and landmarks on a walk through Belfast and Dublin

The Science of Elegant Luxury: Johnstown Castle
Patrick Bowe has discovered a set of photographs which document the 19th-century magnificence of a county Wexford estate

'Joannes Clericus': The Life and Work of the Revd John Rooney
Marion McEnroy introduces the paintings of a Galway artist

The Intemperate Life of Frederick Collier
Lynda Wilson explores the life of a 19th-century watercolourist

The Practical and The Decorative: The Kildare Estate Maps of John Rocque
Anne Hodge writes about the sumptuous volumes which describe the 18th-century lands of the 20th Earl of Kildare

Soundings: The Paintings of Mark Francis
Caoimhín MacGiolla Léith ponders the concept of the grid in the work of a contemporary artist

From Dublin to the Far East: An Túr Gloine Stained Glass in Singapore
David Caron highlights a rare and unusual commission

Postcards from Brittany: Walter Osborne's Wallet of Photographs
Julian Campbell examines a photo album which once belonged to the Irish painter

Book Reviews
The latest books on Irish art and culture

Auction Records
A table of newly-established record prices for Irish painters

Price Guide to Irish Art
An index of prices paid for Irish pictures at auctions, June 1999 - June 2000