Maeve McCarthy is the recipient of the inaugural Ireland-US Council Portrait Award, a prize that underlines our fascination with this compelling genre, writes Riann Coulter
The onslaught of images of Samuel Beckett’s unmistakable face that heralded the Beckett Centenary Festival this spring, is a powerful reminder of the degree to which our concept of an individual’s identity is invested in their appearance
Nicola Gordon Bowe discusses Harry Clarke’s exquisitely detailed interpretation of Synge’s Queens, an ode to history’s most memorable female characters
