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
Sarah Purser
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
Irish culture’s remarkable response to the political turmoil from 1891 to 1922
Irish art during the period both mirrored and shaped events in the political sphere
House Conversion – Frank McNally on James Joyce and the Dublin Vigilance Committee
An Irishman’s Diary
Room to Disimprove – Frank McNally on the demise of the drawing room and other social tragedies
An Irishman’s Diary
Step inside the lives of Irish artists through new digital archive
Source at National Gallery of Ireland offers access to over 23,000 records and images
Honan Chapel restoration reveals Irish modernist mastery
Outwardly restrained UCC chapel is inwardly a reverent blaze of colour and coherence
Centenary of turning point in Irish history to be marked
1922 World Congress of the Irish Race announced the Free State to the world
Irish women artists to show at $€X¥ in the snow
Swiss exhibition’s feminist curators highlighting gender imbalance in the art world
James Bond away with the fairies: what’s coming up for sale in the auction rooms
First edition Ian Fleming books in Cork; WB Yeats’s Irish Fairy and Folk Tales in Galway
The Blunden sisters: Last of the great adventurers
Sisters Caroline and Jane are selling the contents of Castle Blunden, their family home
Mary Swanzy, one of Ireland’s leading modernist painters
Artist achieved success in her lifetime only to be relatively forgotten in death
Hot prices for Irish art in summer sales
Big-hitters like Yeats, Henry and Osborne now fetching prices well above pre-sale estimates
Margaret Clarke's portrait work steps out of the stained glass shadows
Margaret Clarke was a key figure in Irish art and a new show illustrates how her portraits deserve greater recognition beyond her partnership with Harry Clarke
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
City centre revamp retains its safe house trapdoor
This house has had top-to-toe treatment since January – when it was bought for €825,000 – being transformed from seven bedsits to a home of tall elegance
List of the week: 10 great Irish paintings on public display
A new weekly column brings you curated lists from Irish Times experts. Here, our art critic suggests 10 Irish paintings worth seeking out
Opening up a century of Irish women artists
Free event on St Stephen’s Green gives the public access to works that cannot normally be viewed.
Creative haven inside the canal for €1.7m
Boasting such artistic luminaries as Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammóir among its former residents, Dublin’s Harcourt Terrace has been a magnet for creative types for more than a hundred years. Now number 9 is for auction by its auctioneer owner
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