Ulick O Connor

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Patrick Pye and Nóirín Pye at the opening of his exhibition at the Jorgensen Gallery, Molesworth Street in 2003. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Painter (88) to lose €17,000 as Aosdána changes membership rules

Patrick Pye, an 88-year-old artist with fading sight and restricted mobility, was told by the Arts Council at the end of last month that his €17,180 A(...)

End of a political era at Lenihan family home

Parkview at the Castleknock gate to the Phoenix Park is a small scheme of standard detached homes built in the early 1970s. What sets number 24 apart (...)

Michel Déon with a portrait of himself in his home in Co Galway. In ‘La Chambre de Ton Pere’, Déon recounted how the portrait was painted. Photograph: Lara Marlowe
French writer Michel Déon dies in Galway, aged 97

The novelist Michel Déon, the French writer most closely associated with Ireland, died in hospital in Galway on Wednesday at the age of 97. Déon’s t(...)

Gerry Charlton: made his name in the early 1960s in one of the most sensational trials in Irish legal history, that of Dr Paul Singer and his colleagues Desmond and Diana Shanahan of the Shanahan Stamp Auctioneering firm.
Brilliant solicitor who acted in sensational 1960s fraud trial
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  • October 23, 2015, 15:34

Gerard (Gerry) Charlton, who has died aged 81, was one of the most respected litigation solicitors in Ireland for more than 50 years. He made his n(...)

Brendan Behan with Jackie Gleason in Gleason’s dressing room in 1960. Photograph: Walter Albertin / Library of Congress
Brendan’s tragic voyage: Behan in the USA: The Rise and Fall of the Most Famous Irishman in New York
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  • May 17, 2014, 01:00

In 1960, shortly after the announcement that his play The Hostage was transferring to Broadway, Brendan Behan was having a drink in a Dublin pub with (...)

Maiden Hurdle, Clonmel by Peter Curling, €15,000-€25,000 at Whyte’s
Irish art buyers keep it real

This week’s auctions of post-war and contemporary art in New York saw vast sums spent by bidders at Christie’s and Sotheby’s for paintings by artists (...)

Ulick O Connor talks to Mannix Flynn at the Aosdána G general assembly in the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin, yesterday. Photograph: David Sleator
Abuse memorial plan divides Aosdána assembly

The annual meeting of artists’ group Aosdána was staged under a European theme yesterday but a domestic matter – the State’s p(...)