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Female pioneers of modernism shine in Irish art sale

Irish art collectors are spoiled for choice with upcoming sales in Bonham’s, Whyte’s and Adam’s featuring a wealth of local and international talent across painting and sculpture

Christy Moore: A Terrible Beauty review – Hits the bull’s-eye again and again

There is no emotion that doesn’t get a nod in the singer-songwriter’s latest album

Festive breaks around Ireland for Christmas and the New Year

Celebrate, count yourself lucky, plan ahead and then settle down for some nice resolutions

Sean Scully’s Double Window to feature in upcoming Sotheby’s Paris sale

Oil on canvas executed in artist’s distinctive style has estimate of €350,000 to €550,000

RHA Annual: No wallflowers at this rowdy art party

With 600 pieces to fit in, famous names jostle for space with newcomers, but there’s no one at this party you wouldn’t be happy to go home with

Demand for Irish art is high as market ‘due a price jump’

Art auctioneer says prices down 40-50% from peak but recovery is in sight

Last chance to view Yeats treasures in Dublin before London art sales

Major art works and memorabilia being sold by the Yeats family go on show in Dublin along with top Irish paintings. All are destined to be auctioned in London

Auction results and forthcoming sales

John Shinnors shines in Connemara sale

Diana photograph could be star of bank holiday sales

Irish photographer John Minihan’s famous study of Diana Spencer dates from 1980

Charles Tyrrell blends wood and metal to beautiful effect

Amorphous shapes and passages dominate, while Felim Egan tests new waters

Pieces of me: Mary Ann O’Brien, founder of Lily O’Brien’s Chocolates

‘I love our kitchen as it surrounds family and friends in a blanket of cosiness and warmth’

What it went for: auction and fair results

First auction of Basil Blackshaw paintings since artist’s death

De Veres has four lots by Blackshaw in its Irish Art Auction

Charles Tyrrell finds human fallibility in the logic of the grid | Visual art

Tyrrell’s paintings, in the tricky Uillinn gallery, aim for the ‘rightness’ of nature