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
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Heritage
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
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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
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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
Radiant legacy
New from the Spring 2020 edition. The legacy of stained-glass artist Helen Moloney is in the vibrancy of her colours and her use of coloured glass and lead lines in an abstract manner, writes Bart Felle Read More
Circus Maximus
New from the Spring 2020 edition. There are echoes of the old Roman circus on the bases of Irish high crosses at Clonmacnoise, Monasterboice and Lorrha, writes Peter Harbison Read More
Enigmatic circles
New from the Winter 2019 edition. A small number of Irish stone circles exhibit convincing evidence of intentional astronomical alignment at winter or summer solstice, writes Frank Prendergast. Photographs by Ken Williams Read More