Did Edward Glew’s painting of the colourful but notorious Donnybrook Fair borrow too much from Samuel Watson’s earlier study of the same subject? Brendan Rooney certainly thinks so
Brendan Rooney evaluates George Collie’s genre scene, a gritty exception to the mainstay of the artist’s practice
Brendan Rooney visits Cian McLoughlin’s studio, as the Dublin born artist prepares for his first solo show in New York
Brendan Rooney recounts the adventures of 19th-century Irish artist Trevor Thomas Fowler, whose move to America brought him celebrity and commercial succes