Lots from Luggala and fine furniture from grand Irish houses in London sale
A 25ft table from Carton House among the most expensive items to be auctioned
Social jetlag: up early on weekdays, snooze button at weekends
Living in two time zones – week days and weekends – could cause social jetlag
Chinese artist revealed as painter of 13 taoiseach portraits
Zhang Yi, aka Johnny Wilson, worked in a ‘very basic’ Rathmines studio
€120,000 ring and a cut-price Dior mink – Maureen O’Hara items sold at auction
Hollywood star’s jewels flew, but furs went for less
Mosse mugs and snail plates - what sold at Mary Robinson country home sell off
Former president’s kitchenalia was snapped up but many artworks failed to sell
‘Captain Cook’, one of greatest finds in Irish auction history
in Kilkenny 30 years ago, a lost portrait sold for IR£27K. Months later it made £600K
Yeats love letters, artwork goes on view in Dublin before auction
200 items from the ‘Yeats Family Collection’ are being sold by WB Yeats’s grandchildren
Life’s Work: Phyllis MacNamara, antique jewellery dealer, Galway
The joy of jewellery: After 45 years in business, Phyllis MacNamara still gets a thrill from holding a piece of jewellery
Career highlights? Selling a Ming dish and the piano from Rick’s Café
Patrick Meade has sold everything from shipwreck treasure to showbiz memorabilia
Life’s Work: Joan Murray, antiques fairs organiser, Dublin
‘We missed a ferry to Nicaragua – which was lucky as that evening we heard that the Sandinista revolution had started’
Fine art, furs . . . and knickers - what got lost in the Easter Rising
Claims for damages were made to a British committee from artists including Jack B Yeats and John Lavery
Life’s Work: Christopher Mason, sculpture specialist, Sotheby’s, London
A discovery in Ireland in 2014 ‘caused a sensation in the saleroom’
Life’s Work: Kevin Chellar, horologist and antique clocks dealer, Dublin
‘We trace early Irish clocks around world . . . restore them and offer them to Irish buyers’
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