Julie Brazil and Emer McGarry look at Jack Butler Yeats’ images of Irish Travellers and the wandering poor, which provide a glimpse of his consistent interest in those who lived a nomadic life
Riann Coulter traces the path of the sculptor Hilary Heron, whose retrospective exhibition is showing at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
Aidan Dunne finds in the paintings of Anita Shelbourne subjects woven into the very fabric of environment
Dickon Hall considers the work of Northern Irish artist Arthur Armstrong on the centenary of his birth
Logan Sisley salutes an indomitable and towering figure in Irish art, Sarah Purser
Mary Stratton Ryan traces the life and career of Wexford-born artist Francis Alfred Danby
Martha Severens tells the story of Henrietta de Beaulieu Dering Johnston, who travelled from Dublin to Charles Town, South Carolina, becoming America’s first professional woman artist
Once prominent in Irish life, the vicereines and their legacies are largely overlooked, but the faces of these women have now been afforded a place on the walls of Dublin Castle, writes Myles Campbell
Gabriel Hayes was invariably identified in the press as a woman, wife, mother and grandmother before being acknowledged as an artist, which distracted from serious critical reception of her work, writes Paula Murphy
Kathryn Milligan traces the career of Harry Aaron Kernoff, whose art was inspired by city life
Catherine Manthorne recounts the life and work of the Irish American landscape artist Eliza Pratt Greatorex
On the fiftieth anniversary of her death, Michael Waldron assesses the work of Cork artist Sylvia Cooke-Collis
Artist Frances Kelly didn’t aim for exact likenesses in her portraits of people or flowers, but rather for some inner, more abstract, significance, writes Hilary Pyle
Barbara Warren’s work, rather than startling or imposing on the eye, invites the spectator to come in, writes Hilary Pyle
Hilary Pyle recalls the artist Hilda Roberts, two-time winner of the RDS Taylor Art Award, whose talents were apparent from an early age
Robert Ballagh has long been recognised for his political engagement; BRIAN McAVERA asks him to enlarge on the artist’s position in
society ahead of his retrospective at the RHA in September
Catherine Marshall visits the studio of Hennessy Craig prize-winner Mollie Douthit as she prepares for a solo exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 2015
Marianne O’Kane Boal hopes a touring retrospective on the work of Brian Ballard will convey the full trajectory of his practice from figuration to abstraction
Stephanie McBride draws parallels between recent photography and new works on video by Anthony Haughey to be shown at Limerick City Gallery of Art
Peter Murray remembers the talented artist, Robert Gregory, son of Lady Gregory of Coole Park, whose surviving works are testament to unfulfilled promise
Judith Hill examines the political content of Robert Ballagh’s survey exhibition at the Hunt Museum, Limerick
Mary Stratton Ryan outlines the life and work of artist Phoebe Donovan ahead of an exhibition of her works during the Wexford Arts Festival
Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch remembers a leading member of the Celtic Revival, artist Mia Cranwill
Brian Fallon remembers a modest exhibition that began a love affair with the work of Harry Kernof