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Explore Ireland in November: From sweet dreams to flying fantasies
From a VR ride to Hieronymus Bosch’s world in Limerick to a nice snooze in Wicklow
What fresh vision of hell is this so-called ‘Portobello Plaza'?
It takes self-parodic grandiosity to call this slab of uninviting Dublin pavement a plaza
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death has guaranteed a political bonfire
Maureen Dowd: Donald Trump is in position to reshape US supreme court long past his time in office
The battle to save an Irishman’s eclectic art collection in a London council flat
Gerry Dalton, originally from Athlone, quietly built a fantastical world of figurines, models, statues and art
One of most powerful images of War of Independence
Patrick and Harry had been savagely beaten and brutally tortured following their arrest
Freud is sexually obsessed with his mother? She’s one lucky woman
Netflix’s dreamy dream analyst invents brain science, hunts killers and avoids wet tunnels
Ready Steady Cook is back to soften the UK up for rationing
They might soon be cooking with whatever they can scavenge from the forbidden zone
Look at this picture. What do you see?
Eoin McHugh’s latest exhibition gets us closer to things we can’t see or comprehend
El Greco: The last great Renaissance master
The painter constantly reinvented his art – and the older he grew, the wilder it became
Booksmart: Terrific directorial debut from actor Olivia Wilde
Review: Delightful film follows two friends as they party their way into oblivion during last week of high school
Johnny Ronan: The ‘sweat equity’ comeback of a flamboyant businessman
The former ward of Nama believes he is back. But there are mixed opinions on his financial renewal
Bruegel: one of the most evocative representations of winter
Art in focus: you’ll have to make your way to Vienna to view Hunters in the Snow
Maureen Dowd: Trump’s sadism leaves him impotent
US president is trapped in a caricature of masculinity that corrodes his judgment
Career highlights? Selling a Ming dish and the piano from Rick’s Café
Patrick Meade has sold everything from shipwreck treasure to showbiz memorabilia
A race against time in a macabre labyrinth
Kathlyn O’Brien speculates on identity and mortality in ‘Altered Light’, while Michael Beirne creates strange, hallucinatory visions of his own inner world in ‘Sahasrara’
Christ Church dean apologises over poster depicting satanic imagery
Poster advertising dance event in crypt also showed image of two men having sex
The German city stealing Berlin's cool crown
Even to a jaded Berliner, there’s much more to Hamburg than its notorious Reeperbahn
My Life’s Work: George Gerard Mealy, art and antiques auctioneer and valuer, Kilkenny
‘Buy what you like, as you have to live with it’
Web Log: Bosch’s Garden of Virtual Delights
Bosch is best known for The Garden of Earthly Delights, a painting as strange as it is beautiful
Saving Hieronymus Bosch from the devil
The powerful, disturbing work of the Dutch painter, who died 500 years ago, tells us a great deal about the anxieties of his time
Priceless painting by Bosch found in cellar of US museum
‘The Temptation of Saint Anthony’ bought by Missouri museum in 1935 but later thought to have been by student of Bosch
Weekend in . . . Lisbon
The Portuguese city has been spruced up without compromising its antiquity and is full of cool bars and quirky restaurants
Who wins when artists stage a cultural boycott?
600 artists are boycotting Israel; Sean Scully is showing in China - is art ever apolitical?
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