A gift of art is the gift that keeps on giving

‘When we buy from local crafts people we keep our money in the community, where it gets put back into other local businesses’

‘He and I, always by chance’ – Lara Marlowe on Samuel Beckett and Albert Giacometti

An Irishwoman’s Diary

Twelve artists elected to Aosdána

Association honours new members in artforms such as writing, drama, dance and film

In Our Veins review: Story of good people in hard situation is pleasantly sentimental

Lee Coffey brings a century of working-class Dublin to life through one dock worker

Auction results: Strong price for Rasher, drop in Louis le Brocquy

What sold and what’s coming up in the auction rooms

Art of darkness in a Ranelagh home

Go dark inside: an artist and a landscape designers solution when their house had very little natural light

Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister

National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’

Paradise found on Coliemore Road for €2.25m

Enjoys sea views and elegance at Coolmanagh, a four-bed Victorian home in Dalkey

Pygmalion review: Eliza Doolittle gets a muddled makeover

Shaw’s classic is Frankenstein with better elocution and a bit more screaming

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 2003 – New Sexual Lifestyles, by Gerard Byrne

The artist’s re-creation of a 1970s ‘Playboy’ panel discussion about sex raises questions about popular culture and mass media then and now

Dublin has an artistic crisis on its hands. Now is the time to act

Dublin City Council is about to sign off on a new City Development plan. Addressing the crisis in artists’ studio spaces is crucial for the fabric of the city

Irish artist Gerard Byrne ordered to pay special edition print debt

Artist had been told prints would ‘fly out the doors’ of galleries

Northward ho for Beckett festival

Are you heading to Enniskillen for the Happy Days Festival celebrating the life and work of Samuel Beckett? Here are our highlights, theatrical and otherwise

Yeats watercolour comes to market