John Henry Foley
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Sotheby’s €3.4m sale sets new records for Irish artists
- Fine Art & Antiques
- November 23, 2019, 06:00
Results Damien Matthews Clontarf Sale, November 16th and 17th Fancy yellow diamond 4.01ct €32,000 (€45,000-€75,000), Japanese gold mounted box with s(...)

Magic carpet result in London, Cartier gems in Clontarf
- Fine Art & Antiques
- November 16, 2019, 06:00
Auction Results Sheppard’s Masterworks Sale Ming vase discovered at a routine valuation in Blarney achieved €610,000 – almost €500,000 over estimate(...)

Chinese box sells for ten times estimate in busy auction week
- Fine Art & Antiques
- November 9, 2019, 06:00
Auction results TUESDAY NOVEMBER 5TH John Weldon Temple Bar, Jewellery sale Emerald ring set with diamond shoulders 10.40cts €17,000, antique gold (...)

Rare Irish silver, gold teeth and Jack B Yeats paintings: November auction rooms
- Fine Art & Antiques
- November 2, 2019, 06:00
Auction results Sotheby’s New York Furniture Silver and Ceramic Sale Irish Silver Salver, John Hamilton $12,500, Rare Irish silver octagonal sugar b(...)

Swanzy’s cubist art, birds of prey and antlers: what sold in the auction rooms
- Fine Art & Antiques
- October 26, 2019, 06:00
Auction results WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 23RD Adam’s St Stephen’s Green, The Patrick and Antoinette Murphy Collection Mary Swanzy The White Tower €90,000.(...)

Rare U2 Dublin concert footage revealed
- Music
- April 16, 2019, 00:01
For the first time in nearly 40 years, extended footage of U2 shot when they played the roof of an inner-city Dublin community centre in 1982 is to be(...)

State Papers: Repatriation of Phoenix Park equestrian statue not permitted
- Heritage
- December 29, 2018, 01:34
Attempts to repatriate the Gough statue which was blown up by the IRA in 1957 were ruled out by the government in 1988. The statue was erected in 18(...)

The Irish soldier worshipped as an Indian god
- Abroad
- August 27, 2018, 11:28
In 1857, a member of an Indian cult killed himself when he heard that the man he worshipped as a god had departed this life. The Nikal Seynis cult had(...)

Hot prices for Irish art in summer sales
- Fine Art & Antiques
- June 2, 2018, 06:00
Is Irish art finally coming out of the shadow of recession and back into the sun? There were certainly some glittering prices at Whyte’s Important Ir(...)

Monument men – An Irishman’s Diary on the Earl of Carlisle, Goldsmith and Burke
- Opinion
- April 25, 2018, 00:01
When the statue of Lord Carlisle was blown from its plinth in the People’s Garden in the Phoenix Park on July 28th, 1958, the incident was news for on(...)