Manar Mervat Al Shouha, who fled civil war, prefers to talk through her paintings, but she has much to say about her fears for Syria, Irish people’s indirectness, and how ‘the feeling of time’ is similar in both countries
Jane O’Leary, recipient of the National Concert Hall’s lifetime-achievement award, on her half-century of musical innovation
Refurbishment will take place alongside construction of new Dublin city library in Parnell Square
From the Hugh Lane to LGCA – our pick of where art lovers in Ireland can nourish body and soul
A luminous centre of the Irish literary renaissance, a figure of world importance
Sasha Sykes and Sarah Browne have won €10,000 each. What do prizes like this one do for artists’ creativity?
From big group shows exploring topics as vast as time to small but beautifully formed solo painting exhibitions, art has rewarded on many levels this year
The Irish artist has made witnessing his work – and the subject of the astonishing art in his Hugh Lane Gallery exhibition – since the 1970s
What I Do: Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana is a part-time life model in the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin
It’s the gallery’s 160th birthday, while Hugh Lane Gallery attracts record numbers to its Warhol exhibition
Jordan Schnitzer believes in making art available to everyone. His loans to the Hugh Lane Gallery include images of Chairman Mao, Marilyn Monroe, Campbell’s soup tins and the electric chair
The Hugh Lane Gallery’s new exhibition is a chance to see art that recalibrated the concepts of celebrity and aesthetics across image, film and music
City council and Google partner up to make the capital ‘first city in the world’ to use AR technology for tourism
Bluebeard’s Last Wife sold to Brian Clarke for €165,000 – double its lower estimate
A new biography sheds new light on the enigma that is Francis Bacon
Galleries and museums set to open alongside hairdressers in Government’s plans
As funding for the arts continues to erode, here are the questions to ask on the doorstep
Also known as the Art Olympics, this vast exhibition features works from 89 countries
The sales feature a selection of nude styles, from the stark anatomical realism of John Luke’s Nude Male to Louis le Brocquy’s subtle Being
Walsh’s furniture designs have made their way from Kinsale into private and public collections worldwide
A fine new show re-establishes the painter as a leading impressionist but miscasts her as a feminist icon
Jones’s idea for Ireland’s entry into the Venice Biennale was to create a fictional lost past where women held power
Jazz guitarist Hugh Buckley’s instrument was taken from his car in Dublin on Tuesday
The book will list all of Francis Bacon’s works, including 100 previously unpublished paintings
Street processions, bodhrán sessions and fireworks displays help to announce 2016
Artist’s hand-decorated certificate to go under the hammer for €2,000-€3,000
A fascination with Europe as a ritual cultural entity is reflected in these paintings from 1980 onward
From goats to music festivals, the bank holiday weekend has something for everybody
Pieces were made for churches in Ireland, Wales and New Zealand but never installed
British architect Edwin Landseer Lutyens, who died 100 years ago, had strong Irish connections. He once proposed to replace the Ha’penny Bridge with an art gallery
The nuanced, neglected work of the Czech-born artist, who made her home in Ireland, gets an outing in an Imma retrospective
A series of exhibitions organised from the Hugh Lane Gallery play with ideas around institutional critique
Broadcaster’s father, who was a Guinness employee, and seven uncles fought in the war
A lovers’ special: Russian literature, hurling and the Meeting on the Turret Stairs
Sandymount Avenue house opens doors to public for 150th anniversary of Yeats’s birth
Belgium is now Ireland’s third largest export market
Anne Chisholm, chairwoman of Britain’s Royal Society of Literature, on her great-aunt, Sarah Cecilia Harrison, social reformer and first female member of the Dublin Corporation
Today is a good day for Sean Keating’s charcoal drawing of his own painting, ‘The Tipperary Hurler’, to go on auction in Dublin
Earl Spencer is best known for his famous eulogy at his sister’s funeral in 1997
‘In the Omnibus’ was unscrewed from wall during children’s art class in 1992
‘Such a pleasant man you could forget he was a genius’
Dries Van Noten is the star attraction at Paris Fashion Week – and the Louvre
Last October he entered into civil partnership with partner Eric Pearce
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
Programme notes – or the lack thereof – at recent concerts have me lamenting sins of omission
Work acquired by anonymous telephone bidder after fierce competition for piece
Artist’s top auction price prior to Tuesday was a still hefty $86.3m
Michelin-starred restaurant celebrates 21 years in business
Open House weekend is a chance to check out some of the city’s best-loved or seldom seen architecture, with the added insight of an architect, steward or owner
Good news for cash-strapped staycationers and visitors: hundreds of events around the country don’t cost a bean
The Irish programme generally eschews the traditional emphasis on literature in favour of showcasing contemporary art
Early music was on the agenda at two concerts, while OTC’s ‘Carmen’ was defiantly contemporary
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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