Brian McAvera visits Louis le Brocquy’s studio and finds him returning to first principles with his homage to Manet; a celebration of life and sensuality and a world away from his more recent existential ‘human images’

Louis le Brocquy is ninety years old; his life has spanned most of the 20th century and beyond. It is a life which has taken in two World Wars, enormous changes in terms of national boundaries, scientific discoveries, as well as profound changes in the production of, and understanding of, what we call art
Nicola Gordon Bowe discusses Harry Clarke’s exquisitely detailed interpretation of Synge’s Queens, an ode to history’s most memorable female characters