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 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