David Rooney

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The limited-edition coin designed by David Rooney.
Central Bank commemorates ‘Dracula’ with €15 collector coin

Just in time for Halloween, the Central Bank has launched a commemorative €15 Bram Stoker Dracula collector coin. The silver proof coin commemorates (...)

Australian actress Nicole Kidman and Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos attend a press conference for The Killing of a Sacred Deer at the 70th Cannes Film Festival. Photograph: AFP/Laurent Emmanuel/Getty Images
Irish film starring Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman in running for Cannes award

Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Killing of a Sacred Deer, an Irish production from Element Pictures, has premiered to great acclaim at the 70th Cannes Film Fes(...)

Cartoon of banker Seán FitzPatrick as a racing driver by David Rooney, which sold for €3,000
Ten weird and wonderful lots that sold at auction in 2016

1 On St Patrick’s Day at Christie’s in London £435,000 (€554,000) was paid for a pair of paintings by the late Irish artist Tony O’Malley which – when(...)

Easter 1916: part of David Rooney’s illustration of Edward Daly
The 1916 Rising as you have never seen it before

By his own account David Rooney was an unlikely person to be asked to illustrate a book about the men and women of 1916. “For me growing up, everythin(...)

“Pole Position” by artist David Rooney has Anglo Irish Bank’s Seán FitzPatrick as a Formula One racing driver. The drawing sold for €3,000 o at Sheppard’s Irish Auction House in Durrow, Co Laois
Hammer falls on Seán FitzPatrick

The original artwork for an Irish Times cartoon of Anglo Irish Bank’s Seán FitzPatrick as a Formula One racing driver sold for €3,000 at Sheppard’s Ir(...)

Members of the Fingal Old IRA Commemorative Society re-enacting the Battle of Ashbourne at the launch of the Fingal 2016 Centenary Programme in Swords County Hall last month
1916 Diary, February 26th

February 26th, 1916 A disgruntled “observer” of Dublin student life has penned a caustic letter to The Irish Times noting the contrast between the n(...)

The black-and-white pen-and-ink drawing entitled “Pole Position” depicts Seán FitzPatrick as a Formula One driver in an Anglo Irish Bank branded racing car. Illustration: David Rooney
Seán FitzPatrick cartoon to be sold at auction

The original artwork for an Irish Times cartoon of Anglo Irish Bank’s Seán FitzPatrick has turned up in a fine art auction and will be sold next mont(...)

Judge Mary Ellen Ring sentenced Jason Curry to eight years in prison
Man is sentenced to eight years for stabbing his friend

A Dublin man has been sentenced to eight years for stabbing his friend in the stomach and chest, leaving him with life-threatening injuries.Jason Curr(...)