Hilary Fannin: Francis Bacon offers a kind of therapy away from London opulence
Bacon’s bleak vision is more in tune with the times than Bond Street’s glitzy shops
Major experiment moves fusion energy ‘huge’ step closer with record results
Power source can be safe and sustainable part of world’s future energy supply, scientists say
These David Hockney drawings of life starting afresh are an uplifting antidote to the past year
The 83-year-old artist's new exhibition, created during lockdown, offers hope to an injured world
‘I’d go for a pint with Willem de Kooning and dinner with Francis Bacon’
A new biography sheds new light on the enigma that is Francis Bacon
Euler: a mathematician without equal and an overall nice guy
The vast body of mathematics owes more to Euler than to any other single person
How a UK robotics group turned Covid-19 crisis to its advantage
The device Bump monitors social distancing, a challenge for companies trying to bring employees safely back to the workplace
Room with a view: How David Hockney created digital art for a lockdown
A new book of works by David Hockney drawn on an iPad a decade ago resonates today
Oliver Peyton’s latest venue: a funeral parlour that’s fun
The Irish-born restaurateur wants to drag the funeral business into the 21st century
My child’s art has pride of place on our walls – my prized pictures are behind the sofa
Unhung paintings have just become more clutter around the house
Irishman Bernard Looney named as chief executive of BP
Kerryman to succeed Bob Dudley when he steps down from oil giant early next year
Brexit rot already working its way through British science
Nobel prize winner leaves as reality of disconnecting from EU funding network sets in
Welcome to the turtle house in Monkstown Farm
The animal-loving owners of this south Dublin house asked Taka Architects to design an extension – for their 60lb turtle
Culture wars: even the arts are a Brexit battleground
Even the free movement of musical instruments could end, says one composer
Maths, aesthetics and culture
That’s Maths: London’s Winton Gallery reveals how numbers shape our world
Why are artists intoxicated with Samuel Beckett?
Beckett’s legacy endures, and reaches far beyond the written word
Thomas Ryan: an artist with an eye on politics
Gallery honours 88-year-old painter with show of a lifetime’s work
‘If a painting gets too pretty, drag it across the studio’
Elizabeth Magill makes works of tremendous beauty, but she’s not averse to a little rough treatment to get to the heart of the work
EasyJet boss Carolyn McCall lands top job at ITV
She had been front runner to secure broadcaster’s vacant top job
Lauren Kinsella: 'Improvisation is the key to life'
Shrieks, yelps and clicks are part of the Irish woman’s repertoire of improvisation
Visual Art: David Hockney’s Belfast show is modest in scale but ambitious in scope
MAC exhibition, a first for Ireland, is a fine collection with a focus on drawing
Dick Ahlstrom: Research community alarmed by Brexit implications
Royal Irish Academy one of seven to issue a joint statement to the UK government
Hughie O’Donoghue: Broader strokes of family history
The artist’s new exhibition explores the personal and political, ‘the complex, detailed, contingencies of people’s lives’
Pieces of me: Balenciaga and Klimt a cut above the rest
Ib Jorgensen: ‘A mirror over the mantelpiece is an easy way out – I would much prefer a painting’
Yinka Shonibare: ‘I thought I was a republican until I went to Buckingham Palace’
The British-Nigerian artist’s work is laden with complex identity conundrums
Prolific painter and former lady mayoress of Belfast
Coralie Kinahan: September 16th, 1924 - July 31st, 2015
Jack Vettriano paintings go on sale at Edinburgh auction
Plenty of interest expected in 12 works by one of Britain’s most successful modern artists
Elizabeth Shaw: unknown in Ireland but fondly remembered in Germany
Belfast-born artist’s story encompasses Churchill, communism and children’s books
Dermot Weld can cap season and career with victory in Breeders’ Cup
Mustajeeb could be best hope among a quartet of Irish horses at Santa Anita
Belcoo bore hole is a first step to ‘drill or drop’ decision
Tamboran director is trying to sell fracking to the people of Ireland
The Irish William Blake: The Writings of James Barry and the Genre of History Painting
Review: Barry believed that the sole purpose of landscape was to serve as background to the depiction of “significant human action”, which was the central business of a serious painter
Space, the final frontier for architecture
A firm of Irish architects is addressing the question of how buildings make us feel at the ‘Sensing Spaces’ exhibition at the Royal Academy in London’s Piccadilly
‘I like feeling out of my depth’: how Jessie Buckley went from Kerry to the West End
Killarney’s Jessie Buckley is to share a stage with Jude Law in a West End production of ‘Henry V’. The experience has been terrifying and ‘completely liberating’
An innovative sculptor of industrial steel
Sir Anthony Caro: Born: March 8th, 1924; Died: October 23rd, 2013
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