Michael Kane: Artist who left more than a legacy of extraordinary paintings
One of a group who founded the ground-breaking Project Arts Centre
Shelley McNamara
Irish artist Michael Kane: ‘Patrick Kavanagh did nothing else but create art. And that was my ideal’
The Project Arts Centre founder, who is marking his 90th birthday with a solo show, is a firm believer in the idea that art truly matters. He lives fully surrounded by it
Press Up co-founder puts architect-designed Lad Lane home on the market for €1.775m
Matt Ryan’s Dublin 2 house was reimagined to capitalise on its canalside location, a few doors down from where Ryan’s mother, the late Caroline Walsh, grew up
The two Irish women among the world’s top architects
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects on their passion for design
Frank McDonald’s future Dublin: Prepare for floods. Lose the ugly bridge. Dig an underground
In an extract from his new book, our former environment editor lays out his vision for Dublin
Grafton Architects complete hat-trick with win of 2021 Riba Stirling Prize
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara take award for ‘six-storey hymn to social interaction’
Fintan O’Toole: Dublin city – facing its third great abandonment – must be reimagined
Dublin’s inner city could soon become a ghost town – or reoccupied as a living public space
Dublin by Design: Meticulously illustrated look at city architecture
Contributors look at the history of Dublin to imagine an even better future
Architecture must be built in as more than an outhouse of culture
Irish triumph in Pritzker prize should draw attention to a neglected, crucial artform
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara: from smalltown Ireland to architecture stars
Grafton Architects founders and winners this week of the prestigious Pritzker Prize have come a long way, yet they remain as grounded as ever
State architect hopes to push Ireland in Dutch direction
Ciarán O’Connor urges ‘proper dialogue’ on architecture in Ireland
Why are Irish world class architects not building in Ireland?
Grafton Architects have just won the 2020 Royal Gold Medal, but are ineligible to tender for many major projects at home
Irish architects win RIBA gold medal, UK’s top award
Grafton Architects honoured for significant contribution to advancement of architecture
‘Developing appreciation can slow down the incredible race to consume’
Master craftsman Joseph Walsh suggests a different and inspiring idea of culture
Fintan O’Toole: Let’s abolish culture and call it sport
The day the Ryder Cup was funded by Government, plans for Parnell Square's cultural quarter collapsed
School’s out: 20 things to do around Ireland over the Easter holidays
From bunnybots and egg hunts to classic board games and easy introductions to opera
Give it a lash: 100 questions to test your Irishness
Win a €250 Kenny’s hamper, delivered anywhere in the world. Ah, go on, go on, go on ....
Campaigning for better conditions for artists in Sellotaped shoes
The issue of artists’ livelihood dominated a 250-strong gathering at Dublin Castle
Irish architects awarded UCD’s highest honour
Grafton Architects founders receive Ulysses medal for ‘outstanding global contribution’
Property 2018: Twelve standout houses we fell for this year
From a Hollywood-style beach house in Co Louth to a Ranelagh sale that led to love
Fintan O’Toole: We need Ireland’s world-class architects to design great public housing for Dublin
Capital ideas: Irish architecture is part of the solution to a major social problem
Proposal to move Dublin Port to free up housing land in city ‘reckless’
Dublin Port Company chief criticises RIAI president over ‘mischievous’ suggestions
Irish crafts are having a moment in Venice
In the ‘Homo Faber’ show’s Best of Europe section, Ireland is better represented, given its size, than any other country
Culture clusters: Do cities need cultural hubs?
At Kilkenny Arts Festival young architects imagine what the city might look like in the future
Taoiseach says he was not ‘chancing his arm’ with 2020 election proposal
Leo Varadkar also rules out Finian McGrath’s request to free tax-evading doctor
Kilkenny Arts Festival: Brahms, Beethoven and Bertie on the menu
Opera version of the ‘Odyssey’ and an open-air Shakespeare production will run in August
The Irish take over the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale
Curators Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara have tamed the egos of so many male ‘starchitects’
Can Ireland’s market towns be brought back from the dead?
A team of Irish architects in Venice want to make Irish rural towns great again
Get ready for the ‘Irish biennale’ as architects take on Venice
The 16th Venice exhibition, curated by Grafton Architects, will highlight the humanity of Irish market towns
Grafton Architects wins RIAI gold medal for Milan university
Bocconi University has been critically acclaimed and won the world building of the year award in 2008
‘Derry Girls’ is hot; ‘Friends’ is definitely not
The People’s Republic features prominently in the good end of this week’s index
Irish architects need a cool €2.5m for Venice Biennale budget
It’s an honour to curate city’s architectural extravaganza, but first comes fundraising
Six architects to represent Ireland at Venice Biennale 2018 announced
Collective of Irish architects will explore how common spaces in market towns in Ireland can be restored and reinvigorated
Let’s go humble at the Venice Bienniale
We should highlight the simpler, modest buildings of eco-builders, community activists and Men’s Sheds participants
Architecture’s glass ceiling: cracking a macho culture
Women have traditionally fared poorly in the profession – but are things changing?
Grafton Architects chosen to curate Venice Architecture Biennale
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara ‘delighted to be gifted opportunity’, a significant honour and accolade for Grafton, and for Ireland
Grafton Architects wins international best building prize for “modern day Machu Picchu”
Grafton Architects collaborated on the UTEC project with local partners to create a new campus building for Lima’s specialist engineering university
Architects - They’re not just for the rich
For Yvonne Farrell and Shelly McNamara of Grafton Architects, good design is about making a community
Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 2009 – Bocconi University, by Grafton Architects
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara’s faculty building in Milan captures the essence of the Italian city
Bravo Lima: the Irish architects designing the ‘new geography’
Grafton Architects, the Irish team behind the spectacular University of Engineering and Technology in Lima, wanted to create a building that was ‘specific to this unique place on earth’
ESB building ‘categorically’ not on council’s preservation list
Clare Hogan says architect Arthur Gibney did not think headquarters should be listed
Building a profile: Irish architects making their mark on London
After their exceptional work at the London School of Economics, and the Photographers’ Gallery, O’Donnell and Tuomey should win more challenging commissions in the British capital
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