John Mulcahy (JM): With only 30 full members after all those years, the RHA gives the impression of being a closed shop.
Arthur Gibney (AG): We want to expand our membership. Our policy is to expand, but we are curtailed by fairly restrictive conditions from the original Charter. The Charter sets down the number of members and associates, so somebody has to die before a new member is elected.
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