Alec Cobbe selects the earliest known steeplechase trophy from the Newbridge House Collection
In nurturing the remarkably intact Cobbe family collections indigenous to Newbridge House, the return of a prodigal item is always an event of especial pleasure. So it was in 2003 when a very fine piece of Archbishop Charles Cobbe’s silver, an elaborate rococo bread basket of c.1740, was recovered at a fair at the RDS, having sojourned across the Atlantic since its sale from the house in 1959.
Eleanor Flegg visits ceramicist Mark Campden’s Kilkenny studio to witness the process behind his gleaming table-ware
Paula Murphy examines the background to Oisín Kelly’s immortalization of Big Jim Larkin commissioned by the workers of Ireland
Technical developments enable artistic development’: John Behan reflects on the circumstances which spurred his move to sculpture, in conversation here with Brian McAvera