The National Library of Ireland recently acquired an album of thirty-six watercolours and prints made by James Cavanah Murphy in Portugal between 1789 and 1790. Michael McCarthy recalls the career and travels of this unusual draughtsman
The Smurfit Art Collection spans three continents and contains some of the best 20th-century Irish art. Ciaran MacGonical reviews a new catalogue of the collection
Writer, conservationist, collector and founder of Irish Arts Review, Brian de Breffny was a remarkable champion of Ireland’s cultural heritage. Ann Reihill remembers the man behind the journal and the extraordinary restoration of Castletown Cox