Fiona Kearney selects a Claire Halpin painting from the University College Cork Art Collection
Mary Stratton Ryan outlines the life of artist Elizabeth Rivers, highlighting the woodcuts she created of the islanders of Inishmore
Rosemary Ryan selects a painting of Thomas ‘Bullocks’ Wyse and his sister Catherine in the collection of Bishop’s Palace, Waterford Treasures
Michael Waldron remembers Cork’s Munster Fine Art Club (1920–1988), which exhibited the work of local artists and Irish artists with national and international reputations
Christian Dupont uncovers Belfast artist Eva McKee’s vision for achieving aesthetic resonance through Celtic patterns and Art Nouveau styling
Christian Dupont probes the interplay of literary and visual arts in an exhibition inspired by Flann O’Brien and The Third Policeman.
Christian Dupont outlines the multitalented and free-spirited life of Juanita Casey
Catherine Bowe selects Songwood by Orla Barry from the Wexford County Council Art Collection
Hilary Pyle explores the formation of the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland and the role played by its founding member, Sarah Purser
Residency programmes are the life blood of the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, with each participating artist donating an artwork to the museum, writes Marie Bourke
John Turpin considers a pair of aquatints purchased by the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland, Ireland’s oldest arts charity
Christian Dupont applauds typographer, designer and letterpress printer Jamie Murphy, founder of The Salvage Press
As George Bernard Shaw’s generous bequest to the National Gallery of Ireland draws to a close, Peter Somerville-Large looks at how the funds have been distributed
William Shortall selects Elizabeth Yeats’ dance card from the Cuala Press Archive at Trinity College Dublin
Christian Dupont espies John Behan’s unused drawings for Thomas Kinsella’s ‘Glenmacnass’.
Christian Dupont looks at autograph books from women imprisoned during the Civil War
Peter Harbison reviews a collection of Beranger watercolours recently presented to the Royal Irish Academy
A Micheál Mac Liammóir watercolour leads Christian Dupont back to Yeats’ ‘The Stolen Child’
Roy Foster welcomes Waterford’s Museum Quarter, which celebrates the city’s heritage in spectacular style
The ethos of Quakerism informed the impulse to establish Waterford’s Municipal Art Collection, writes Peter Murray
Christian Dupont unveils Rowan Gillespie’s Four Irish Nobel Literary Laureates at Boston College.
From girlhood to adult, Eileen Lavery inspired her father. To mark the National Gallery’s acquisition of John Lavery’s Her First Communion Kenneth McConkey traces its artistic lineage
Christian Dupont considers the doodles on the cover of a notebook Flann O’Brien kept as secretary for the 1943 Cavan orphanage fire tribunal
Frederick Pyne looks for answers to questions of attribution for a fascinating collection of Irish cigarette cards
Brendan Rooney evaluates George Collie’s genre scene, a gritty exception to the mainstay of the artist’s practice
Eamonn McEneaney selects The Dragon Mirrors designed by Thomas Johnson, from the Bishop’s Palace Collection, Waterford
A lack of exhibition space and restricted budgets dog many museums, not least Ireland’s National Museum whose African artefacts Peter Somerville-Large recalls last viewing as a schoolboy
Pat Donlon pays tribute to the bibliophile whose private collection furnished the newly founded National Library in 1877
Karen Mullaney-Oignam reveals the extent of the Bryce family collection as their former home on Garinish Island, County Cork opens to the public this summer
Elizabeth Willms tracks the fate of a lost series of paintings from their original setting in Rathfarnham Castle to their sale in New York
Conleth Manning considers the evidence for authorship of some missing watercolours
A new addition to the wide array of decorative arts to be seen at Castletown will further enhance its integrated appeal, writes William Laffan
A collector’s personal initiative to mark 1916 delivers a reflective response from some of Ireland’s most prominent artists, writes Sarah Kelleher
More than a hundred years after his ancestors departed these shores, collector and philanthropist Brian P Burns is circling back, perhaps with an eye to adding to his outstanding collection of Irish art, writes John Mulcahy
Putting Irish arts in context has been a principal aim of our collecting mission at the John J Burns Library, Boston, writes Christian Dupont
Resplendent in its latest reconstruction, the National Gallery of Ireland needs a new and inspiring ‘Mission’ that places Irish art and artists at the centre of its activities, argues John Mulcahy