The prestigious Zurich Portrait Prize exhibition is leaving the capital for the first time to be showcased in Cork.

Photography has long been a neglected area of Irish art. The National Gallery’s first exhibition dedicated to the discipline is beginning to redress that, writes Marjorie Brennan.

Mr Mulcahy owned the Phoenix magazine and the quarterly Irish Arts Review, of which his last publication was this week.

Rose Martin takes a look at the innovative and imaginative designs among the winners of this year’s Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland Architecture Awards.

Páirc Uí Chaoimh has picked up the project of the year gong at the Irish Construction excellence awards.

“BUILD it and they will come” may not always be reliable advice for aspiring entrepreneurs but “rebuild it and they might come” has proven a winning formula for the National Gallery of Ireland. 

Saoirse Ronan’s favourite nail salon will be painting works of art on to fingernails at the National Gallery of Ireland.

One of the country’s most important and popular paintings has been restored and returned to permanent display at the National Gallery of Ireland.

Record numbers are visiting the country’s leading tourist attractions such as the Guinness Storehouse and the Cliffs of Moher.

Auction brought in an estimated €1.8 million for Irish art on Monday evening, writes Des O’Sullivan.

Best of Sotheby’s

Old Masters, furniture, and Irish silver are featured in the first auction of the new season, writes Des O’Sullivan.   

Des O’Sullivan reviews a forthcoming show of work by the artist who was brave enough to paint the Famine. 

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Taking a city break, here or abroad gives us time to stand, stare and listen, sometimes at no expense at all. 

The Guinness Storehouse, the Cliffs of Moher, and Dublin Zoo had more than 1m visitors each last year as some of the country’s top attractions showed rising interest.

Works of art by Peter Paul Rubens, David Teniers the Younger, and Francesco Guardi are among a small group of carefully selected Old Masters from Russborough House that will be sold at Christie’s in London in July.

Peter Murray wonders why, in an eclectic collection of writers’ responses to works on show at the National Gallery the majority of contributors chose pieces that allowed them avoid eye-to-eye contact with the subject.

A man has gone on trial accused of damaging a €10m Monet painting in the National Gallery and damaging two paintings in the Shelbourne Hotel.

Irish authors have taken pieces in the National Gallery as inspiration for prose and poetry, writes Peter Murray

I’M one of the small constituency disgusted at the John McNulty affair because the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, has insulted artists in using the IMMA as a spring-board to “better things” for a political protege.

Dublin had 15 of the country’s top 20 free and fee-charging tourist attractions by visitor number last year, according to figures from Fáilte Ireland.

A €10m artwork by Claude Monet that was all but destroyed when a man put his fist through it is once again hanging where it belongs after a painstaking restoration.

A €10m artwork by Claude Monet all but destroyed when a man put his fist through it is once again hanging where it belongs after a painstaking restoration.

Kya deLongchamps says condition and quality is vital in a good, antique watercolour buy.

An elite artists’ group has rejected public criticism over the amount of funding it receives from the taxpayer, claiming the Government would drive “JCBs full of money” to any private business that provided such a return on the “investment”.

A €40,000 relocation payment by the National Gallery of Ireland to its new director fell outside the conditions for filling the vacancy.

Everyone loves a good recession-inspired deal, but when it comes to fun days out, people are increasingly shunning visits to free attractions in favour of splashing the cash.

Six-page letter from Annie MacSwiney, written from Brixton Prison on Aug 28, 1920 in regard to her brother, Terence MacSwiney.

A €20m investment in the National Gallery of Ireland will provide 300 jobs during the construction phase, it was announced today.

THE 2013 January exhibition of watercolours by JMW Turner at the National Gallery of Ireland includes the entire Vaughan bequest and five other watercolours acquired in recent years.

SEÁN Rainbird took the helm as director of the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin in April this year.

MUSIC NEWS: She’s conquered Britain, America and the world, now Adele is following in the footsteps of music legends Shirley Bassey, Paul McCartney, Tina Turner and, er, Sheena Easton.

Art restorers are to begin the delicate repair of a Monet painting extensively damaged as it hung in the National Gallery.