Eileen Grey

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Miami Beach
Miami spice: glitz and glamour in south Florida’s melting pot

A weekend in Miami sounds like a line from a Will Smith song – okay, it is a line from a Will Smith song – but with direct flights from Dublin, a long(...)

Brigid of Kildare: a fearless negotiator who secured women’s property rights, and freed trafficked women
25 fearless women who helped shape today’s Ireland

History is filled with stories of great deeds, the exploits of rebels, patriots and politicians, writers and artists, scientists and innovators. They (...)

In November, Sothebys will auction art, furniture and antiques owned by the French interior designer Jacques Grange. All photographs: Alex Cretey-Systermans/The New York Times
In Paris, a clearance sale for the boho set

At 73, Jacques Grange is cleaning house. For half a century, the French interior designer has not only created homes for Yves Saint Laurent, Sofia Cop(...)

A history of Ireland in 100 great quotes

Think we’ve missed any important quotes? Let us know by submitting your suggestions here and we will publish a selection of the best 1(...)

Feargus Ó Conchúir’s “The Casement Project”: valuing the individual and diversity
Angry and articulate, dance made big, bold statements in 2016

What were your cultural highlights of 2016? Angry and articulate, Embodied at the GPO Visitors Centre made a timely statement about women and dance.(...)

Presley Ogedegbe and Caitlin Whelan from 6th Class at the Model School on Marlborough Street launching new lesson plans for primary schools with Minister for Arts Jimmy Deenihan, Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn and Fintan O’Toole, author of a History of Ireland in 100 Objects. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times
History in objects project brought to classrooms

An elegant black Georgian tea-pot used by one boy’s great-grandparents was one contribution by pupils at a Dublin school to the emigrant’s teapot less(...)

Clockwise from main: Marina & the Diamonds sporting Natalie B Coleman designs; Turkish-born designer Umit Kutluk; Dublin styling powerhouse Grace Moore
Fresh faces: an A to Z of Irish fashion

Angela Scanlon. Her documentary Oi Ginger is top of the RTÉ Player charts at time of writing, and her own star is in the ascendant – she has been prof(...)

‘A Farm in County Down’ by Paul Henry
Irish collectors still favour nostalgia

Since the economy crashed in 2008, the Irish fine art and antiques market has experienced a flight to quality and search for safe-haven status. The mo(...)

Avenida de Miraflores 14, Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, by Francisco de Asís Cabrero Torres-Quevedo (1961-62). Photograph: Francisco de Asís Cabrero Torres-Quevedo
Inside the designer’s home

One of the attractions of reading the property pages is the opportunity it gives us, even those of us not house hunting, to have a snoop around(...)