Hugh Lane Gallery

A fascination with Europe as a ritual cultural entity is reflected in these paintings from 1980 onward

From goats to music festivals, the bank holiday weekend has something for everybody

Pieces were made for churches in Ireland, Wales and New Zealand but never installed

British architect Edwin Landseer Lutyens, who died 100 years ago, had strong Irish connections. He once proposed to replace the Ha’penny Bridge with an art gallery

The nuanced, neglected work of the Czech-born artist, who made her home in Ireland, gets an outing in an Imma retrospective

A series of exhibitions organised from the Hugh Lane Gallery play with ideas around institutional critique

Broadcaster’s father, who was a Guinness employee, and seven uncles fought in the war

A lovers’ special: Russian literature, hurling and the Meeting on the Turret Stairs

Sandymount Avenue house opens doors to public for 150th anniversary of Yeats’s birth

Belgium is now Ireland’s third largest export market

Anne Chisholm, chairwoman of Britain’s Royal Society of Literature, on her great-aunt, Sarah Cecilia Harrison, social reformer and first female member of the Dublin Corporation

Today is a good day for Sean Keating’s charcoal drawing of his own painting, ‘The Tipperary Hurler’, to go on auction in Dublin

Earl Spencer is best known for his famous eulogy at his sister’s funeral in 1997

‘In the Omnibus’ was unscrewed from wall during children’s art class in 1992

‘Such a pleasant man you could forget he was a genius’

Dries Van Noten is the star attraction at Paris Fashion Week – and the Louvre

Last October he entered into civil partnership with partner Eric Pearce

A firm of Irish architects is addressing the question of how buildings make us feel at the ‘Sensing Spaces’ exhibition at the Royal Academy in London’s Piccadilly

Programme notes – or the lack thereof – at recent concerts have me lamenting sins of omission

Work acquired by anonymous telephone bidder after fierce competition for piece

Artist’s top auction price prior to Tuesday was a still hefty $86.3m

Michelin-starred restaurant celebrates 21 years in business

Open House weekend is a chance to check out some of the city’s best-loved or seldom seen architecture, with the added insight of an architect, steward or owner

Good news for cash-strapped staycationers and visitors: hundreds of events around the country don’t cost a bean

The Irish programme generally eschews the traditional emphasis on literature in favour of showcasing contemporary art

Early music was on the agenda at two concerts, while OTC’s ‘Carmen’ was defiantly contemporary

Patrick O’Reilly’s wild eclecticism can be perplexing, but his latest work, a giant haystack in a church, is a thrilling success

Seán Keating wanted to establish an authentically Irish school of art. It’s debatable how successful he was, but there’s no denying the importance of his paintings to our history

The Andy Warhol exhibition at the Mac in Belfast attempts to package culture as entertainment, but there’s little depth beneath the veneer

Plans are ‘most important for 100 years’

Chef Joy Beattie’s new Dublin restaurant is serving impressive Irish food at a great price