Pat Donlon pays tribute to the bibliophile whose private collection furnished the newly founded National Library in 1877
I come to bury Caesar not to praise him’ – could have been my mantra recently when revisiting the National Library in search of Jaspar Robert Joly and his bequest. Fully cognizant of the draconian cuts to staff and budgets at that institution over a prolonged period I had assumed that the Joly collection was way down the Library’s list of priorities. But I rush ahead. Who was Jaspar Robert Joly and why is his name not up there with the list of worthies that time and history have come to regard as important?
Overcoming the slow down at home, Irish architects Heneghan Peng, Grafton Architects, O’Donnell+Tuomey amongst others have looked to international competitions, but overseas projects are not without risk, writes John McLaughlin
In addition to creating a likeness of her daughter, Geraldine O’Neill has in mind the age-old interrogation of representation, writes Robert Ballagh of this year’s recipient of the Ireland-U.S. Council/Irish Arts Review Portraiture Award
James Watson could trace his family’s artistic lineage to York Minster and following his move to Cork he launched a new tradition to last a hundred years, writes Vera Ryan.