Next weekend sees an event around Cork city which marries architecture and food, writes Joe McNamee.

You can find hurling in the most unexpected places, says Paul Rouse.

Des O’Sullivan looks forward to some of the exhibitions that are due to open in the coming weeks.

THERE’S a sort of a subtle, circular theme going on at St Rita’s, a fine-upstanding Edwardian home on Limerick city’s esteemed Ennis Road: curves, circles and oval shapes abound, inside and outside.

THERE’S a sort of a subtle, circular theme going on at St Rita’s, a fine-upstanding Edwardian home on Limerick city’s esteemed Ennis Road: curves, circles and oval shapes abound, inside and outside.

Our regular contributors select their highlights of the year.

One question I am often asked is what is Ireland’s best selling wine and the answer — Santa Rita 120 — probably shouldn’t surprise you, writes Leslie Williams.

The lives and loves of the Yeats family will be illuminated in letters, works of art and personal effects to be sold at Sotheby’s in London on September 27.

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

THE adage “by their actions shall ye know them” is a time-honoured and reliable guide.

The Alfred Beit Foundation is back in the black after recording a profit of €5.4m in 2015 on the back of two sales of its six ‘Old Masters’ paintings.

Beara is currently paying tribute to John Kingerlee, perhaps the greatest of the

The National Gallery is to pay consultants up to €75,000 to provide an economic assessment that will include a cost benefit analysis on its proposed €50m to €60m final phase of its Master Development Plan (MDP).

The artist who painted portraits of the president of Cork Institute of Technology and chair of its governing board has contradicted a whistleblower’s claims that the two men had travelled abroad to sit for the paintings at the college’s expense.

Kya deLongchamps takes us through some moments in the fascinating history of lost masterpieces.

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Sean Scully is the subject of the most significant exhibition in Cork for many years. Not surprisingly, he’s dismissive about the recent controversy about his work on RTÉ’s Liveline, writes Alan O’Riordan.

An Taisce has called on the Taoiseach to help stop the sale of paintings from the Alfred Beit Collection at auction in London.

A woman who is chaining herself to the railings of the National Art Gallery says the Beit Collection needs to be kept in Ireland as an inspiration for artists.

AN irreplaceable part of Ireland’s patrimony is to be auctioned off in London, though last Saturday President Michael D Higgins presided at the 20th anniversary celebration of the Heritage Council, writes Gerard Howlin.

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.

An iconic Roy Keane photo is just one of 100 pieces assembled by Dorothy Cross from various collections for a major exhibition at IMMA, writes Alan O’Riordan

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.

A religious artwork discovered among junk in a presbytery outhouse is expected to fetch up to €120,000 at auction next month.

The National Gallery will be closed today, as Siptu staff carry out a one-day work stoppage.

A €26m refurbishment is getting underway at the National Gallery of Ireland.

A sponsor is being sought for an important collection of 107 pieces of Irish silver available to the National Museum of Ireland until the end of February.

A man accused of putting his fist through a €10m Claude Monet painting shouted afterwards “it was an accident”, his trial has heard.

The trial of a man accused of causing €7m worth of criminal damage to a Monet painting at the National Gallery has heard that he had paint stripper in his bag.

A Dublin man accused of punching a hole in a valuable Monet oil painting is due to stand trial today.

WERE the dogs of war unleashed this week by a jittery Government lashing out as it risks completely losing control over the escalating crisis in health funding?

The National Gallery has defended a €40,000 top-up payment made to its director which is funded through its earnings from the royalties of George Bernard Shaw.

Government departments and state agencies continue to squander millions in taxpayers’ money through poor judgment, lax monitoring, and crippling inefficiencies, despite the ongoing squeeze on public finances.

William Dargan: an honourable life 1799-1867

A man has been charged with criminal damage after a masterpiece by the English romantic painter John Constable was vandalised.

A campaign to save the Seanad, involving a number of prominent historians, academics and political personalities, will be launched today, promising to strongly oppose the Government’s “populist” proposal to abolish the Upper House.

Painted in 1434 The Arnolfini Portrait still influences contemporary painters and writers. Peter Murray on a new history of the masterpiece

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