Patricia Butler
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Flower power: the beauty of Irish botanical art
- Fine Art & Antiques
- March 7, 2020, 06:00
Pioneering Irish artists are at the heart of the National Gallery of Ireland’s new exhibition, Drawn from Nature: Irish Botanical Art, spanning almost(...)

Gardening women: meet Fionnuala Fallon’s horticultural heroes
- Gardens
- March 7, 2020, 00:00
We all have our heroes and it’s not surprising so many of mine belong in one way or another to the world of plants. They include gardeners, de(...)

‘All we want is the truth’: families of Tuskar plane crash victims seek answers
- Irish News
- March 25, 2018, 15:53
Even 50 years after the tragedy, relatives of the 61 people who perished when an Aer Lingus flight from Cork to Heathrow came down close to Tuskar Roc(...)

Maureen Haughey funeral told of ‘republican in the truest sense’
- Irish News
- March 21, 2017, 16:55
Maureen Haughey (91), who died on St Patrick’s Day, used to joke that her late father, former taoiseach Seán Lemass, could never pronounce the word lo(...)

Friends in media, politics gather for James Downey funeral
- Irish News
- April 23, 2016, 18:08
James Downey had journalism and politics in his blood, but last Wednesday he decided he could wait no longer for a government to be formed, mourners a(...)
![The Sunday Press was “a family, a very dysfunctional one at times, but [Willie Collins] loved every minute of his working life and all the people at Burgh Quay” [Irish Press group offices above]. File photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times The Sunday Press was “a family, a very dysfunctional one at times, but [Willie Collins] loved every minute of his working life and all the people at Burgh Quay” [Irish Press group offices above]. File photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times](/polopoly_fs/1.2500947.1453129149!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_140/image.jpg)
Funeral of journalist Willie Collins told of ‘self-effacing’ man
- Irish News
- January 18, 2016, 14:59
The late Willie Collins was no fan of emotional eulogies. “He had a strong view that in the eyes of God everybody is equal in death,” said son Stephen(...)

Tributes paid to Derek Davis at humanist ceremony
- Religion & Beliefs
- May 18, 2015, 19:29
Grief has a way of making you feel very old and very young at the same time. So said Seán Davis at his father’s funeral in Dublin on Monday afternoon.(...)