Julian Campbell examines the oeuvre of Katherine MacCausland who found comradeship and artistic fulfilment in France

In May 2008 a painting of an interior with figures by a late 19th-century artist was included in a sale of Irish art conducted at Adam’s in Dublin. The picture was of a conventional subject: a woman and children in a kitchen, and was painted in a sober, realistic style. Yet it aroused considerable interest, because of the rarity of the artist, and the skill of its execution
Róisín Kennedy discusses Carey Clarke’s Portrait of My Daughter, Michelle, the winner of the Ireland-US Council Portrait Prize at the 178th RHA Annual Exhibition
Riann Coulter finds a personal compendium collated with daring and vigour, in Basil Blackshaw’s work