In a new series of work for the RHA this winter Eithne Jordan has turned her attention toward home, writes Kevin Barry.

Eithne Jordan, whose new paintings of Dublin are to be exhibited in November at the RHA, lives in France for some months each year at Montpeyroux, a village of the Languedoc. Three converging streets, each following its own underground watercourse, decided Montpeyroux’s loose, strung-out form. Where they meet is the marketplace and a wine bar, the Terrace de Mimosa.
John McLaughlin assesses heneghan peng’s dramatically sited but elegantly unobtrusive visitor centre for the Giant’s Causeway in Antrim
Peter Pearson makes a plea for re-roofing Kilmacurragh, the Queen Anne house set in an arcadian parkland in County Wicklow
Peter Murray finds similarities between the fictional character Kim and 19th-century photographer John Burke, whose path in Afghanistan, has been retraced by Simon Norfolk