Writer Anne Enright and visual artist Amanda Coogan among association’s new members

‘As a nation, we owe him a debt of gratitude for his work,’ says Michael D Higgins

The Great Palm House in the National Botanic Gardens and the restored conservatory in Woodstock Gardens form part of our ornate heritage

A programme about the decline of traditional craft, ‘In Good Hands’, was poignant, a comedy about suffragettes was funny, but the childcare exposé ‘Breach of Trust’ was plain shocking

David and Sally Shaw-Smith, who made RTÉ’s acclaimed Hands films, documenting Ireland’s waning craft and farming traditions from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, are retracing their steps for a new series