Dublin man was a faithful friend to de Valera and had a complex friendship with Collins

Discover the home of Jack Yeats, go on a health retreat or bring your dog to a pet-friendly hotel

Control of Whyte’s auction house passes to his family, as the market for art ‘booms’

Before now, emphasis was placed on rural landscape and western seaboard in Irish art. This book takes a very different approach

Feast your eyes on the classic works, or check out some completely new visual art

Irish racing’s regulatory body tender for four-year commercial package

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Bohemians rhapsodise about it and high society have always loved the magical estate in Wicklow

Celebrated Co Antrim painter described as man who was rooted in rural life

Harry Clarke and Richard King created profoundly questioning work

‘It is not the number of artists assisted, or the number of events sponsored that matter but the benefits (or value) to wider society, and hence taxpayers, that accrue from this expenditure’

“I have the kind of taste I can’t afford.”