Lavery, Yeats and le Brocquy beat estimates in first sales of the year
Irish banknotes also beat expectations in strong sale
Basil Blackshaw’s angels appear in De Vere’s Irish Art Auction
Works by Nathaniel Hone and Daniel O’Neill also among selection from 20th century
Dispute over €40m sale of Dublin property before Commercial Court
Receiver and liquidator disagree over how net proceeds of sale should be distributed
Regency Blackrock villa with echoes of McCormack and Shaw for €3.25m
Distinctive Waltham Terrace house is rich with history and on a large corner site
Patrick Freyne: Lipsynching with your shirt off. That’s a job now
Netflix reality show Hype House reveals that jobs now include being sexy in 15-second chunks
Two Irishmen receive Catholic Church’s highest honour for services to music
Previous Irish recipients include John Hume and tenor John McCormack
Bill Cullen and Jackie Lavin’s former holiday home in Killarney for €950k
Built in 1995 and empty for some years, the house and guest lodge are on 34 acres
Oireachtas committee urges American Irish Society to stop building sale
Charlie Flanagan says society building on Fifth Avenue is source of diaspora pride
Irish authors, actors call for American Irish Historical Society building to be kept
Liam Neeson, Colm Tóibín sign letter asking that Fifth Avenue building not be sold
Proposed sale of American Irish landmark in Manhattan 'deeply disappointing'
Historical society put Fifth Avenue property on market for $52m last month
Under the hammer: Castlehyde’s €1.2m vase, plus other top auction sales of 2020
Covid-19 turned most auctioneers towards online sales, with some outstanding results
Simon Schama: A fight to the death between two visions of America
A bitterly polarised nation could do with a little of the spirit Lyndon Johnson showed in 1965
Count John McCormack’s bed, pub ephemera and 1911 specimen coins for sale
Results and forthcoming auctions
John F Larchet’s Complete Songs and Airs: Musical comfort food
Review: Irish composer’s soft-edged songs are perfect for nostalgic reconnection
Andy Warhol’s ‘Cow’, Lord Byron’s garnet gifts sell well in July auctions
Fine Art & Antiques auction results
Feis Ceoil the biggest loss to Irish classical calendar
Coronavirus ravages cultural schedule but online musical archives will reward raiding
In search of the banshee and the elusive lennanshee
An Irishman’s Diary: ‘Leanhaun Shee’ is the Gaelic muse, giving inspiration to those she persecutes
Christy Dignam: ‘Nearly all the people I started with are dead’
Interview: The Aslan singer pulls no punches about drug addiction, sex abuse and cancer
The Mayo woman who became Italy’s favourite operatic diva
The opera singer refused the title of Papal Countess from Pope Pius XI anxious not to forget her humble roots as ‘Peggy of Mayo’
Compensation culture claims Shelbourne’s famous front door
Five-star Dublin hotel to remove revolving door after string of personal-injury claims
Patrick Freyne: From Kylie to Declan Nerney, a history of taoiseach rock
Leo Varadkar has been accused of trying to ‘get down with the kids’ via 1980s pop icon Kylie Minogue. Here’s how our former leaders rocked us in the Oireachtas
A Portrait of the Artist as a PR Man – James Joyce’s controversial campaign to promote an operatic friend, John O’Sullivan
An Irishman’s Diary
Laois woman leaves €30m windfall to five charities in her will
Property and newspaper owner Elizabeth O’Kelly(92) gives Irish Cancer Society €6m
Special €15 coin honours late guitar great Rory Gallagher
Legal tender coin with €15 face value to be sold at €60 each as only 3,000 copies being minted
Dublin's southside: The dark secrets of Merrion and Booterstown
A new book by Hugh Oram shines a light on these southside Dublin suburbs
John McCormack home on Rock Road goes for more than a song
Two landmark homes on the busy Rock Road find buyers after price corrections and a long wait
The Belfast man who became president of Israel
Schooled in Dublin, Chaim Herzog served two terms as president
Galway recreation centre for children and parents faces closure
Future of Time4Us, which provides play and cooking facilities, in doubt due to regulatory requirements
Louis Walsh: ‘Boyzone were more fun than Westlife’
‘Ireland’s Got Talent’ star on ungrateful popstars and being falsely accused of sex assault
Secrets and pints: 60 years of the Shelbourne’s Horseshoe Bar
The Shelbourne hotel’s ‘institution within an institution’ gets ready to party – discreetly
Ex-senator Averil Power appointed Irish Cancer Society chief
Power ran unsuccessfully as an independent for a Dáil seat in last election
Electric Picnic day one: ‘Will we get an auld tattoo?’
The young people of Ireland and their grandparents have gathered to see the acts of the moment
Death of Irish man (26) in Canada ‘every parent’s worst nightmare’
David Gavin from Castlebar last seen on June 30th diving into water in British Columbia
'We’d snorted our way across America, it was ironic I was sacked over drugs'
Aslan singer Christy Dignam on rehearsing in a pigsty, writing ‘This Is’, drug problems, collaborating with Finbar Furey, and staying positive through gruelling bouts of chemotherapy
The superstar you’ve never heard of – at least, not from us
YouTubers have followers in the millions but rarely appear on traditional media’s radar
Whatever happened to Dublin street singer Miss Mary Connolly?
Singing sensation Connolly was discovered performing on the street for pennies before having the sort of rise (and fall) that would make an X Factor contender green with envy
Bishop pleads for peace at funeral of stabbed teenager Reece Cullen
‘Conflict can begin with just a dirty look,’ Bishop Eamonn Walsh tells congregation
President refused to accept refund for daughter’s air fare
State papers 1986: Patrick Hillery declined rebate of £4,200 after State visit with family to Australia
Advice for book collectors: get into local and family history
PJ Tynan of Courtwood Books, Stradbally, Co Laois gave up farming to become an antiquarian bookseller
New children’s science centre granted planning permission
Multi-million euro facility to be completed in north wing of National Concert Hall by 2018
Glorious vistas from Killiney Hill
Victorian five-bed with sea views and star-studded history for €2.9 million
Am I Irish, British, European? I’ve been unsure all my life
Is our nationality defined by where we were born? Or is it to do with how we feel?
David Mahon trial centred on the circumstances of injury
Dubliner found not guilty of murder but guilty of the manslaughter of Dean Fitzpatrick
Election 2016: FF hoping to build on signs of forgiveness
Unlike five years ago, Fianna Fáil canvassers getting polite reception in Dublin
Flailing about is not helping Irish Cancer Society
Has the Irish Cancer Society suffered irreparable harm from the grant cuts controversy?
Irish Cancer Society chief executive takes €10,000 pay cut
Charity says it needs to raise €200,000 to support fund for children with cancer
Shem the Penman Sings Again Review: When James met John
A delightful, playful study of the relationship between Joyce and McCormack
The music scene in 1916: noise, jazz and John McCormack
That was the scene internationally, but what would a Dublin music lover have had to choose from?
Irish tenor Anthony Kearns sings for pope in Philadelphia
Singer is last person to go on before Mass at end of pope’s five-day visit to the US
New breast cancer drug to get first clinical trial in Ireland
Researchers to recruit over 100 breast cancer patients for trials with Copanlisib
Greil Marcus on Van Morrison: the singer’s constant search the yarragh
The yarragh is a sense of the song as a thing in itself and, as Van Morrison once put it, ‘Is the song singing you?’
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