Travel deals: Plan an escape with these holiday ideas in Ireland and abroad

An audit will value memorabilia relating to Beckett, Swift, Bram Stoker and many others

Little overlooked except Killiney Bay at glass-box style property designed by architect Tom de Paor

Adam’s Important Irish Art Sale to include a substantial work by Sean Keating

Adam’s and De Vere’s sales offer a chance to purchase work from Ireland’s top artists

Demand for statement pieces should be met by eclectic mix of mid-century furniture

Fancy a cycling holiday but don’t have the pedal power? Never fear, the hills are alive with the hum of battery-powered bikes

Footage of secret concert on community centre roof in Sheriff Street in 1982 emerges

Walsh’s furniture designs have made their way from Kinsale into private and public collections worldwide

Me & My Money: Alan Keville, owner of Alan Keville for Hair salons

‘I feel I have learned from my bad investments over the years’

Pálás cinema is selected in two categories for World Architecture Festival Awards

Charities Regulator inquiry at Picture Palace ‘not in itself finding of any wrongdoing’

Fianna Fáil councillor disappointed €9.5m project transferring to private operator

Whyte’s hoping art market recovery will continue in 2017

Auctioneers are seeking consignments to sell, and they’re especially keen on Irish art

ROSC events were extraordinarily ambitious but to reprise them would be a mistake

The collective works in our series show how molten and defiant Irish artworks can be

Project founder Lelia Doolin says aim was to create “civic facility” for people of Galway

Quality and simplicity are the most important things for fashion designer Helen McAlinden, and her Co Dublin home reflects her love of simple but well-made objects. ‘I prefer to pare things back, not bling them up,’ she says

A new book charts the 1,000-year history of the grand country house

The influence of Japan on our design culture is deep and pervasive, so what is it that has so enraptured some of our most creative artists and makers?

The painter’s response to the sight of a local girl during a holiday in Italy was an unexpected departure for Irish art

Picture Palace ran into series of obstacles after first sod turned in 2009

In her new show, choreographer Liz Roche makes a golden connection to the poet

The artist juxtaposes works and objects from seven national institutions to uncover some small truths

The Specialist: Carol Booth is a practitioner of the ancient craft of gilding and has worked on public and private commissions, restorations and has a range of decorative mirrors

Ronnie Tallon: March 19th, 1927 - June 22nd, 2014

Edward Murphy: March 27th, 1948 - May 17th, 2014

The beauty in the RHA annual show is that while among the 560-plus works, you’re unlikely to be ambushed by art theory

It isn’t just grown-ups painting like kids or gallery-goers admiring the emperor’s new clothes: good abstract art, such as Samuel Walsh’s, tackles the ideas behind things

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

Patrick Scott: January 24th, 1921 - February 14th, 2014

Writer Anthony Cronin described Scott as ‘a person of great charm and presence’

Last October he entered into civil partnership with partner Eric Pearce

Cork-native (93) was major force in Irish art since 1940s

Painter, printmaker, architect, designer: Patrick Scott, who has died at the age of 93, made an inestimable contribution to Irish cultural life

From the realistic (books, video games, DVDs) to the less so (Rothko Painting No 1, Bond’s Aston Martin), ‘Irish Times’ writers reveal what’s on their Santa lists

No elaborate models, no flashy images of skyscrapers – a show at Imma encourages us to look at how architecture affects our day-to-day lives