paul Caffrey gives a thumbnail sketch of 18th-century society drawn from the worlds of art, academia and the stage, as seen in the Comerford Collection
Over the past forty years John and Pauline Comerford have built up a collection of 300 miniature paintings. The miniature portraits are on loan to the Office of Public Works and will be exhibited at the Irish Architectural Archive, 45 Merrion Square, Dublin in 2009
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