Brendan Rooney evaluates George Collie’s genre scene, a gritty exception to the mainstay of the artist’s practice
Hugh Maguire selects Tim’s Hat by Camille Souter from the Hunt Museum’s current exhibition
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
Simone Mancini and Adrian Le Harivel select a painting from the Care of the Collection display at the National Gallery of Ireland
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
Eimear O’Connor selects Sean Keating’s Wagon Train at Ardnacrusha from the ESB Collection
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
Donal Maguire selects an illustrated letter, written by Walter Osborne, from the ESB Centre for the Study of Irish Art
A new addition to the wide array of decorative arts to be seen at Castletown will further enhance its integrated appeal, writes William Laffan
William Shortall selects Clonfinloch by Hilary Heron, from the collection of Failte Ireland
Eamonn McEneaney selects Blaise Smith’s View of Waterford 2016 from the collection of Waterford City Hall
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
Peter Murray examines the shifts in fortune surrounding the magnificent suite of paintings by the Guardi brothers brought to Ireland by the Earl of Bantry
William Laffan previews the exhibition ‘Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design 1690-1840′ which opens at the Art Institute of Chicago in March
Anne Hodge and Peter Harbison examine the visual evidence of Daniel O’Connell’s unusual conditions of imprisonment in the Richmond Bridewell, Dublin