Ernie O Malley

Ardal O’Hanlon on his grandfather’s Bloody Sunday role: ‘He was one of the good guys’

‘Thanks to people like him, people like me don’t have to make such difficult decisions’

Developer’s taste in art and architecture drives sale of Dublin home and contents

Patrick Kelly’s Fitzwilliam Square Georgian finds a buyer while artworks secure €3.77m

Dogs of War – Frank McNally on the terrier campaign of Michael Collins

An Irishman’s Diary

Seán Hillen: ‘The oxygen of publicity is everything for an artist’

The artist on cameras, John Hinde postcards and Newry during the Troubles

Louise Ryan: Battles on the ‘home front’

Women proved easy targets for the Black and Tans and were regularly terrorised in their homes by threatening, abusive and drunk soldiers

Diarmaid Ferriter: It’s still hard to rise above the emotion of the War of Independence

It invokes such partiality that, 100 years later, untangling its knotted legacy is not easy

From Turmoil to Truce: A mature reflection on the War of Independence

National Library exhibition makes space for civilian experience of intense conflict

Going, going, gone: the top art and furniture sales of 2019

From Chinese ‘sleepers’ to a record Yeats, it has been a busy year in Irish auction rooms

Sotheby’s €3.4m sale sets new records for Irish artists

Jack B Yeats paintings also perform well; 34 of his works are set to make auction debut

Jack B Yeats: More than 30 works to go on display ahead of RDS sale

Collection held by Ernie O’Malley to be sold, as de Vere’s also hold major Irish art sale

Magic carpet result in London, Cartier gems in Clontarf

Ming vase fetched €610,000 at Sheppard’s sale – almost €500,000 over estimate

Chinese box sells for ten times estimate in busy auction week

Recent results and forthcoming auctions and fairs

Rare Irish silver, gold teeth and Jack B Yeats paintings: November auction rooms

Results and forthcoming auctions and fairs

Swanzy’s cubist art, birds of prey and antlers: what sold in the auction rooms

Results and forthcoming auctions and fairs

Bumper crop of paintings by Jack B Yeats in autumn sales

Sales in London and Dublin include 11 paintings, some bought directly from Yeats

Monaghan, 1920: Deadly raid brought Eoin O’Duffy to prominence

The Revolution Files: O’Duffy went on to become IRA Chief of Staff, Garda commissioner and founder of the Blueshirts

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