Portraits of an activist
New from the Summer 2022 edition. Margarita Cappock and Hannah Baker review works from the oeuvre of artist Sarah Cecilia Harrison Read More
Heritage
Ireland’s earliest art
New from the Summer 2022 edition. Unravelling the sequence of carving on the stones has been challenging but has been helped by the fact that there are so many examples to study, writes Elizabeth Shee Twohig
Read More
Sister Mary’s illuminations
New from the Spring 2022 edition. Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch reveals Sr Mary Concepta’s design and decoration of the Oratory of the Sacred Heart in Dún Laoghaire Read More
Hidden treasures
New from the Winter 2021 edition. Peter Somerville-Large recounts the history of the National Museum of Ireland’s significant ethnographic collection, last displayed over thirty years ago
Read More
Gentle études
New from the Autumn 2021 edition. Mary Stratton Ryan looks at the life of Mary Kate Benson, a tentative figure in the Irish art pantheon, on the centenary of her death
Read More
Stags and dragons
New from the Summer 2021 edition. Julian Walton and William Fraher explore the magnificent Curraghmore House in County Waterford, where, three hundred years ago, the union of two families produced the most powerful dynasty in late Georgian Ireland Read More
Transatlantic threads
New from the Spring 2021 edition. The discovery of a set of embroideries from 1932 highlights a period during which the new Irish State was presenting a religious and ancient identity to the outside world, writes William Shortall Read More
Elevated survival
New from the Spring 2021 edition. Patrick Bowe unearths how medieval monks fished, foraged and cultivated one of Ireland’s earliest known kitchen gardens on the cliffs of the windswept island of Skellig Michael Read More
Medieval Gem
New from the Winter 2020 edition. John Montague explores Dunsoghly Castle in North County Dublin, one of Ireland’s most interesting buildings
Read More
The spirit of Glendalough
New from the Autumn 2020 edition. The National Museum of Ireland’s up-coming Glendalough exhibition includes items that have come to light in the valley and its environs over the last two or three centuries and which have never been seen in public before, writes Matthew Seaver Read More