Artist Patrick Graham: ‘I can sit with an empty canvas for months. I can sit there and almost weep’
The inaugural winner of the Francis Bacon Award for lifetime achievement in Irish visual art on his creative process
Patrick Graham
Artist
Dublin Gallery Weekend announces winners of first Francis Bacon art awards
Patrick Graham and Cathy Wilkes named as recipients of new annual Irish prizes worth €40,000
Former Irish Times chief critic Brian Fallon dies aged 93
A literary editor of The Irish Times, and its chief critic for 35 years, Brian Fallon also founded the newspaper’s Weekend supplement
Celebrating a golden age of Danish design
Egg chairs by Arne Jacobsen, as well as iconic sofa, among design classics at de Vere’s sale
Centenary of turning point in Irish history to be marked
1922 World Congress of the Irish Race announced the Free State to the world
Magic carpet result in London, Cartier gems in Clontarf
Ming vase fetched €610,000 at Sheppard’s sale – almost €500,000 over estimate
Get into the vinyl groove at Adam’s Mid-Century Modern sale
Auction includes classic 1960s Brionvega turntable; also, Asian treasures in Kildare
Chinese box sells for ten times estimate in busy auction week
Recent results and forthcoming auctions and fairs
Rare Irish silver, gold teeth and Jack B Yeats paintings: November auction rooms
Results and forthcoming auctions and fairs
Bob & Berts coffee chain set to expand to Republic and Scotland
Northern Irish chain aims to open 30 new stores and create up to 600 jobs
Paintings of ferocious engagement
Two Irish artists impress in iconoclastic paintings and a 1916-related video installation
Visual art: Mayo show puts Kathleen Lynn back in the frame
A sprawling show pays tribute to Lynn, a humanitarian who was airbrushed from the 1916 picture
Cow pats but no bull: a cultural meeting place for myth and reality
Megahits from Game of Thrones to the Marvel universe are suffused in myth; so where are the echoes of Irish myth in contemporary culture? It turns out we’re surrounded by the stuff
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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