Lots from Luggala and fine furniture from grand Irish houses in London sale
A 25ft table from Carton House among the most expensive items to be auctioned
Social jetlag: up early on weekdays, snooze button at weekends
Living in two time zones – week days and weekends – could cause social jetlag
Chinese artist revealed as painter of 13 taoiseach portraits
Zhang Yi, aka Johnny Wilson, worked in a ‘very basic’ Rathmines studio
€120,000 ring and a cut-price Dior mink – Maureen O’Hara items sold at auction
Hollywood star’s jewels flew, but furs went for less
Mosse mugs and snail plates - what sold at Mary Robinson country home sell off
Former president’s kitchenalia was snapped up but many artworks failed to sell
‘Captain Cook’, one of greatest finds in Irish auction history
in Kilkenny 30 years ago, a lost portrait sold for IR£27K. Months later it made £600K
Yeats love letters, artwork goes on view in Dublin before auction
200 items from the ‘Yeats Family Collection’ are being sold by WB Yeats’s grandchildren
Life’s Work: Phyllis MacNamara, antique jewellery dealer, Galway
The joy of jewellery: After 45 years in business, Phyllis MacNamara still gets a thrill from holding a piece of jewellery
Career highlights? Selling a Ming dish and the piano from Rick’s Café
Patrick Meade has sold everything from shipwreck treasure to showbiz memorabilia
Life’s Work: Joan Murray, antiques fairs organiser, Dublin
‘We missed a ferry to Nicaragua – which was lucky as that evening we heard that the Sandinista revolution had started’
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
Life’s Work: Christopher Mason, sculpture specialist, Sotheby’s, London
A discovery in Ireland in 2014 ‘caused a sensation in the saleroom’
Life’s Work: Kevin Chellar, horologist and antique clocks dealer, Dublin
‘We trace early Irish clocks around world . . . restore them and offer them to Irish buyers’
Life’s Work: Gráinne Pierse, antique jewellery dealer, Dublin
‘I became immersed in the excitement of the business while still a schoolgirl’
What became of Russborough House’s Old Masters for sale?
Of the Beit paintings controversially earmarked for auction, three avoided the hammer
Life’s Work: Penny Day, head of Irish art, Bonhams, London
‘I’m secretly a bit of a petrol-head so a Lotto windfall might mean a vintage Jaguar’
‘Edna O’Brien thanked me with a gift of a banned book’
Life’s Work: George Stacpoole, antiques dealer in Adare, Co Limerick, and president of IADA
Tiger’s head among Sir Anthony O’Reilly belongings sold off
Businessman’s cat head sells for €1,000 while tables go for €145,000 in Mealy’s auction
James Reilly is selling his cars - 10 Jags, three Daimlers and a clapped out Pajero
Deputy Fine Gael leader will include large collection of cars in sale of contents of Offaly mansion
Time for a tea dance: Michael Flatley’s art is turned into pastry
The former ‘Riverdance’ dancer’s paintings – which sell for up to €340,000 – are the inspiration for a new afternoon tea in a Dublin hotel
Life’s Work: Arabella Bishop, head of Sotheby’s Ireland
‘You never know what the next telephone call or meeting might bring’
Life’s Work: Kieran O’Boyle, auctioneer and valuer, Adam’s, Dublin
‘I don’t have the time to paint any more. Now I just finger-paint with my three-year-old daughter’
Life’s Work: Adelle Hughes, head of the art department, Whyte’s, Dublin
‘Francis Bacon’s studio in the Dublin City Gallery is my favourite work of art’
Life’s Work: George Williams, antiques dealer, Co Meath
“After the hammer fell there was a huge burst of thunder and lightning outside”
Life’s Work: Roger Grimes, antiques dealer, Mulrany, Co Mayo
‘My advice is to buy now because prices are ridiculously low but things are beginning to rise’
Life’s Work: Ted Hegarty, antiques auctioneer, Bandon, Co Cork
Hegarty and his wife specialise in the sale of Irish furniture, silver, glass and paintings
Peril and paintings: From East Germany to Irish auctions
Life’s Work: Christine Ryall, now Ireland consultant to Christie’s, escaped to West Germany with her family as a girl
Life’s Work: ‘The bookshop is a lovely life rather than a living’
John Donohoe, bookseller, Athlone, Co Westmeath
Life’s Work: ‘Real quality endures beyond changing trends’
James Gorry, a Dublin picture restorer and art dealer, shares his wisdom
Life’s work: John McGrane, Antique furniture dealer
“I eventually found the money hidden underneath my own bathroom’s shower tray”
Life’s Work: Rody Keighery, antiques auctioneer, Waterford
‘You never know what will turn up – or where’
Life’s Work: Stuart Purcell, Head of collectibles, Whyte’s, Dublin
‘Objects connect you to a moment in history’
Life’s Work: Bill Canning, Victorian art dealer, Kilkenny
‘Victorian art is undervalued because it has been out of fashion since the 1990s’
Life’s Work: Martina Noonan, art & antiques valuer, Dublin
“I have a distinct memory of the intrigue I felt – aged about nine – attending a country house sale with my mother”
Life’s Work: Michael Jordan, MD of O’Reilly’s Auction Rooms, Dublin
‘People are buying jewellery to wear and not to be left in the safe or bedside locker’
Life’s Work: Joy Danker, antique silver dealer, Dublin
‘The soprano Maria Callas walked into the shop one day . . . and started to sing’
Life’s Work: Oliver Usher, antiques auctioneer, Kells, Co Meath
‘Buy what you love, not necessarily what the market dictates’
Elvis Presley’s Irish roots proven by legal document
Singer’s ancestor fled Ireland for the US in the 18th-century after assault, paper shows
Picture of Thomas Clarke as baby withdrawn from sale
Image shows one of the future leaders of the Easter Rising in the Cape of Good Hope
Life’s Work: Rory Guthrie, art and 20th-century furniture auctioneer
‘Nine times out of 10 your first instinct about a picture is the right one’
My Life’s Work: Niall Mullen, art deco antiques dealer, Dublin
‘I source, restore, market and sell items from Ireland and abroad and the hunt is always the best part’
Casement map of buried gold and valuables at Banna for auction
Chorley’s auctioneers says map will go under the hammer with estimate of £1,500-£2,000
Easter 1916: Medals withdrawn at auction despite €80,000 bid
Decorations awarded posthumously to patriots’ Thomas Clarke and Joseph Plunkett
Easter Rising memorabilia auction hit by poor demand
Seán T O’Kelly’s medals among items that failed to sell at the New York event
Volunteer medals go on sale in New York auction
Large Rising collection to be auctioned including medals awarded to Seán T O’Kelly
Paul Henry, Jack B Yeats or Michael Flatley? Unusual trio of artists at auction
‘Business’ by Yeats takes top lot in RDS art auction in Dublin
Cantillon’s first-edition ‘Essai’ makes £40,000 at Christie’s auction
Kerry economist’s 18-century essay now one of the world’s most collectible rare books
Gun Ian Paisley gave to Bertie Ahern was loan, not gift
Carbine reputedly used at Battle of the Boyne to be auctioned
Two Beit works from Russborough House ready for sale
Christie’s auctioneers will sell paintings by John Atkinson Grimshaw in London
Michael Flatley prepares to enter global art market
Dancer is offering 25 pictures for sale as part of new Firedance exhibition in London
Kilkenny boarding school has hotel potential for €1.35m
This 17-bed Georgian mansion in Kilkenny has been partially renovated and could make a plush private residence or a country house hotel
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