Art couple’s lifelong collection for sale – but they’re not done with buying

A house move is prompting Patrick and Antoinette Murphy to sell a trove of Irish art

Auctions, results and fairs

Signed edition of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man fetches £17,000

Scenes of everyday Irish life at affordable prices in deVere's auction

Sale includes lesser-known works by Patrick Leonard, George Campbell and May Guinness

Auctions, results and fairs

Banksy has last laugh as sale of his work nets whopping £1.2m

James Bond away with the fairies: what’s coming up for sale in the auction rooms

First edition Ian Fleming books in Cork; WB Yeats’s Irish Fairy and Folk Tales in Galway

In search of Una Watters and her ‘lost’ paintings

Many works by the Irish artist, born in 1918, have disappeared

Rambling Dundrum Georgian steeped in history – and art – for €1.95m

Woodlawn House, located beside the Luas was lived in by a colonel, a confectioner and former president of Ireland Erskine Childers

A new map of Ireland: Honouring some of our outstanding women

We propose sites for new street names, sculptures for International Women’s Day

Rebel Irish artists of another age now centre stage at Whyte’s

Artists whose work was once considered too unorthodox for 1940s Ireland are well represented in spring auction

What’s coming up in the auction rooms

First of the year’s art and furniture auctions and Orpens for sale in London

James Earley: On My Culture Radar

The Dublin artist on his love of Amsterdam, documentaries and Graham Norton

Tea time – An Irishman’s Diary on Oliver St John Gogarty and a picnic at Lough Bray

Art you can try before you buy, virtually speaking

A new app allows prospective buyers to visualise paintings on their own walls

Patrick Pye, stained-glass artist and ‘one of the great individualists’, has died

Patrick Pye, religious painter and stained-glass artist, died on Thursday

Auctions: First edition of ‘The Happy Prince’ by Oscar Wilde fetches more than €30, 000

Unopened 134-year-old bottle of Jameson whiskey makes €4,800; 1st edition of ‘Ulysses’ fails to sell

Margaret Clarke's portrait work steps out of the stained glass shadows

Margaret Clarke was a key figure in Irish art and a new show illustrates how her portraits deserve greater recognition beyond her partnership with Harry Clarke

Life’s Work: Ken Ryan, stained glass conservator, Dublin

Joseph Hone: Accomplished travel writer and novelist

John Ford film gave Hone a valuable masterclass in storytelling

Priest delighted as stolen 'stations' return to Galway church

Evie Hone paintings taken almost three years ago found on waste ground in Co Offaly

A window on Wilhelmina Geddes’s life

Often overlooked by art historians, this innovative stained-glass artist is the subject of an impressive biography by Nicola Gordon Bowe

DCU likely buyer for All Hallows College in Drumcondra

Detailed negotiations ongoing for several weeks about future of the Dublin property

Domestic violence refuge planned for Magdalen convent in Galway

Patricia Burke Brogan says ‘memory of those who suffered’ in former laundry must ‘never be forgotten’

Couturier art sale

International and Irish art from Ib Jorgensen

The Specialist: Stained glass will last for a thousand years – if you maintain it

The restorers at The Abbey Stained Glass Studios in Dublin’s Kilmainham preserve the beauty of this window art and relocate unwanted pieces

Opening up a century of Irish women artists

Free event on St Stephen’s Green gives the public access to works that cannot normally be viewed.

Arts groups fear loss of Loughrea’s Cinema Paradiso

Arts organisations would like to use the former picture house but council seeks proposals from those with substantial funds

New annual Irish portrait prize worth €20,000 announced

Hennessy join forces with National Gallery of Ireland in new award

Weekend of careers fairs, toy trains and musical festivals ahead

More than 10,000 have registered for Career Zoo at the Convention Centre in Dublin

Seán Farragher: teacher, Renaissance man and pillar of Blackrock College for more than 60 years

Historian and archivist was a Mayo farmer’s son who never forgot his roots

Evie Hone remaining Stations of Cross on display in Galway museum

Gardaí still investigating theft of six from south Galway

Future Proof: Abbey Stained Glass

Careful use of resources has seen Ken Ryan’s firm through big changes

Michael Farrell: an international artist who never forgot his roots

Micheal Farrell, one of the greatest Irish artists of his generation, is well served by a new show

Substantial reward offered for return of stolen church paintings

Appeal for information after theft of works by Dublin-born artist Evie Hone

Evie Hone paintings stolen from Co Galway church

Eight remaining works by artist in Ss Peter and Paul church, Kiltullagh, removed for safekeeping

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