Stunning views and comfort by the BannFour bedroomed Georgian country house with stable yardThu May 30 2013 - 00:00
Clonganny House: Gorgeous Georgians in WexfordThree country houses in Wexford offer charm, comfort and plenty of room to roam, including this seven-bed on 8.3 acres, for sale in one or two lots from €825,000Thu May 30 2013 - 00:00
Gorgeous Georgians in WexfordThree country houses in Wexford offer charm, comfort and plenty of room to roam, including this one built by the de Rinzy family in 1755Thu May 30 2013 - 00:00
With so many festivals, who needs art galleries?People love the freewheeling experimentation of art festivals. So why don’t our art institutions and galleries learn from them?Sat May 25 2013 - 01:00
Two Dalkey five-beds where the living is easyTwo houses – one a deceptively spacious bungalow, the other a fun modern layout behind a period facade – offer panoramicviews of Dublin Bay and restful gardensThu May 23 2013 - 01:00
Two Dalkey five-beds where the living is easyTwo houses – one a deceptively spacious bungalow, the other a fun modern layout behind a period facade – offer panoramicviews of Dublin Bay and restful gardensThu May 23 2013 - 01:00
Detached on Howth Hill for €1.6mThe owners of Heath House used to live next door and set out to design their dream home by creating a bright, flowing property with lots of internal glass and good links between the inside and outsideThu May 23 2013 - 01:00
Blackrock ballroom where Dev once lived for €1,395,000The three-bedroom East Wing of Bellevue, once the home of de Valera, is steeped in historyThu May 16 2013 - 01:00
If you can’t stand the art, get out of the kitschA piece we admire in a gallery might not look so good at home, and vice versa. How do we decide what we like, and what does it say about us?Sat May 04 2013 - 06:00
Family-friendly Ranelagh Edwardian for €2.6mDetached seven-bedroom family home with original featuresThu May 02 2013 - 06:00
Patrick O’Reilly: making hay and other art that shinesPatrick O’Reilly’s wild eclecticism can be perplexing, but his latest work, a giant haystack in a church, is a thrilling successMon Apr 29 2013 - 06:00
Smart homes in Foxrock for €1.65m and €1.5mA Paul Brazil designed five-bedroom house full of high tech features and, around the corner, a spacious four-bed bungalow with an upstairs apartment and rambling groundsThu Apr 25 2013 - 06:00
Inside the designer’s homeArchitects care passionately about their houses, even if, for many of them they are on-going projects, never quite completed. A new coffee-table book gives a fascinating insight to the houses architects buildThu Apr 25 2013 - 05:00
Mountpleasant surprise in Dublin 6 for €495,000The renovation and extension of this Victorian house was a labour of love by the owners who have struck the perfect balance between contemporary and classicalThu Apr 25 2013 - 05:00
Stunning sea views on Howth Road for €895,000Four-bedroomed detached house with sea views and a swimming poolThu Apr 18 2013 - 06:00
Delgany showhouse for €995,000Five bedroom home at a quarter of its original priceThu Apr 18 2013 - 06:00
Artistic flair on Belgrave SquareThe Brother sells six-bedroom period Monkstown home for €1.7mThu Apr 11 2013 - 06:00
Rathgar redbrick in need of work is worth the €625,000 AMVFive bedroomed period house in need of with original features is in need of modernisation and for sale through GunneThu Apr 11 2013 - 06:00
Heavenly Hillside in KilmacanogueFour-bedroomed country house with gorgeous gardensThu Mar 28 2013 - 06:00
Making a difference, from Dutch to DaDaWhen it comes to creating art, is there any reason for treating those with disabilities differently?Thu Feb 28 2013 - 00:00
Dream home cast in Belgravia styleRathmichael €1.18 million How many of us have whiled away hours conjuring up visions of our perfect, fantasy homes? The owners…Thu Feb 28 2013 - 00:00
Bright day at BlackrockBlackrock €1,075,000 High-spec and clever design features are everywhere in this double-fronted period house, ideal…Thu Feb 28 2013 - 00:00
Period property with Victorian details where cosy mod-cons ruleTerenure €595,000 At one end of the quiet road, I can see the snow-covered tops of the mountains beyond StepasideThu Feb 07 2013 - 00:00
Did Leonardo give 'Mona Lisa' a younger sister?She has the most-photographed, most-reproduced, and the most-parodied face in the worldTue Feb 05 2013 - 00:00
Historic homes holding their ownIt’s (nearly) always sunny in the pages of Mary Leland’s At Home in Ireland; and there’s a beguiling sense of timelessness to…Thu Jan 31 2013 - 00:00
Stage is set for airing of the greenWhat does Irish culture look like? Are we best reflected in the writings of Yeats, Beckett, O’Casey and Synge; or by Kevin Barry…Fri Jan 04 2013 - 00:00
A positive look at negativityExistentialism isn’t the cheeriest philosophy but an exhibition in Florence shows how uplifting it can beWed Jan 02 2013 - 00:00
The tree at the heart of ChristmasI can’t remember when it was, but one year, walking on a bitterly cold night through College Green in Dublin, I turned a corner…Thu Dec 20 2012 - 00:00
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that blingThe boom changed what art, architecture, television, theatre and society looked likeSat Dec 15 2012 - 00:00
Show and tell: the art of running a galleryHow do museums decide what to display? Should they charge? And what are their dream exhibitions? Eight directors give us the …Sat Dec 08 2012 - 00:00
Flexible semi full of surprises80 Braemor Road, Churchtown, D14: Description : Four-bed semi on three levels, with large extension, backing onto Milltown golf…Thu Nov 29 2012 - 00:00
Old-style charm with a new twistBlackrock €995,000: Though it was only built in the 1990s, this renovated family home, with its reclaimed floorboards and facade…Thu Nov 22 2012 - 00:00
The good, the bad, the overpricedHave the ideas run out? And are all the best artists now designing iPhones?Sat Nov 10 2012 - 00:00
The big FriezeIT CAN BE hard to spot a trend when you’re in one, particularly at the beginningFri Oct 19 2012 - 01:00
My 5-year-old could have done thatBut she didn’t. Why does so much modern art annoy people who accept experimentation and ambiguity in music and fashion but want…Sat Sept 15 2012 - 01:00
Building Georgian from the ground upWICKLOW: €2.65 MILLION The owners of Oaklands House – which was burned out in the 1920s – have built a house of Georgian proportions…Thu Sept 06 2012 - 01:00
Life on the waterWATER IS AN inescapable part of life in Ireland, and not just the water that falls, with dismaying regularity, from the skyThu Aug 23 2012 - 01:00
Capturing time and motionA new exhibit at the Glucksman Gallery in Cork asks us to consider the vital connections between drawing and film and also the…Tue Aug 07 2012 - 01:00
Get art in that gardenRecent installations at Bloom and Chelsea show how well art works outside the white cube of the gallerySat Jun 09 2012 - 01:00
Between the darkness and the lightDARKNESS AND LIGHT can be very close to one another, and it’s not always clear which is whichWed Apr 18 2012 - 01:00
Building blocks: What happens when architects turn their hand to art?Unlike artists, architects have practical responsibilities to the people who enter their buildingsSat Feb 04 2012 - 00:00
Are we terrorised by abstract art?The ‘Rocky Road’ exhibition outlines some of the attacks on contemporary art in this country and asks why it often makes us feel…Thu Dec 08 2011 - 00:00
Patrons of the revolution: Why the art world has always relied on bankers' cashThe Renaissance was underpinned by the support of bankersSat Dec 03 2011 - 00:00
A tale of two cities, two exhibitions and one catchy sloganDublin Contemporary and Lyon Biennale both supply moments of wonder – and are linked also by a gratuitous Yeats referenceMon Oct 24 2011 - 01:00
And now back to the studioArtists’ studios have nothing of the mystique of galleriesSat Oct 22 2011 - 01:00
Why heading for the bookies doesn't guarantee a winner in artTwo art exhibitions draw on literature for inspiration, but the results vary widely, from thesis-like installations to a moving…Mon Sept 26 2011 - 01:00
The ghosts of old garrisons sing in Crosshaven fortFive artists were invited to spend several months at Fort Camden in Cork to create their own work, the fruits of which are now…Fri Sept 09 2011 - 01:00
What you see is what you get - or is it?WHETHER or not it is true that early film-goers actually fled the cinema in panic at the sight of the Lumière brothers’ 1896 …Wed Aug 24 2011 - 01:00
The heist: down to a fine art‘The Judgement’, stolen from a California museum last week, wasn’t the first Rembrandt to fall victim to a heist, and it won’…Sat Aug 20 2011 - 01:00
