Distinctively Irish, creatively modern: Roy Foster on Sarah Purser, the most successful portrait painter of her day
The artist is the subject of a new exhibition at the Hugh Lane, the Dublin gallery that she helped to inspire
John Butler Yeats
Distinctively Irish, creatively modern: Roy Foster on Sarah Purser, the most successful portrait painter of her day
The artist is the subject of a new exhibition at the Hugh Lane, the Dublin gallery that she helped to inspire
Plebiscite due on Enniscrone versus Inishcrone conundrum
Tourists complain of problems finding Sligo seaside resort due to confusion over its name
Mystery donor gives valuable Yeats art to Sligo arts centre
Collector paid more than £200,000 for items at Sotheby’s ‘Yeats Family Collection’ sale in London, and has given them to the Model as a mix of long-term loan and outright gift
WB Yeats’s trademark glasses for sale at €500-€600
Yet more items are to be auctioned as the family reaps a multi-million euro windfall
Yeats portrait to return to Muckross House after 145 years
‘Historically significant’ painting was bought by the State in the Yeats family auction
The inventive and industrious Sean Lynch is a good fit for Venice Biennale
Among this year’s essential exhibitions is Lynch’s Biennale show, which will tour Ireland after Italy
George Moore: the neglected man of Irish letters
A Monaco symposium seeks to shed fresh light on a literary trailblazer with a massive if overlooked oeuvre who was a champion of French modernism
Roderic O’Conor, Paul Henry and John Butler Yeats for Sotheby’s London auction
Pre-sale viewings in Dublin this weekend
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