Kya deLongchamps says the top 1960s sideboards are as good an investment as the best of Georgian

The historic Leinster House building is set to re-open to the public in the coming weeks after a near three-year revamp and an €18m budget that is double what was originally planned.

On the eve of Connemara’s Omey island races, relatives of islanders have initiated a petition seeking the urgent return of bones removed during an archaeological excavation.

Ms Justice Bronagh O’Hanlon said the museum Portland stone steps were shiny and slippy and 70-year old Warren Baldwin who ruptured a leg tendon suffered significant trauma, discomfort, inconvenience, expense and upset.

The summer holidays are upon us with eight weeks of freedom as far as school kids are concerned but for parents two long months that need to be filled with activities and entertainment.

Kids will be hooked by salmon event, says Helen O’Callaghan

A magnificent 17th country home set in one of Ireland’s most visited parks is set to open to the public tomorrow for the first time in half a century.

Warren Baldwin was in Dublin on the trip of a lifetime to Europe with his wife Tanya when the accident happened, tearing a tendon on his right leg.

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A miniature Bronze Age axe has been recovered in Co Limerick by Gardaí and the National Museum of Ireland.

A report on burial practices at Ireland’s main mother and baby homes has been described as “substantial” and will be published once survivors groups have been briefed.

A design retrospective informed by transatlantic journeys, serendipitous meetings, recession, and a whole host of plot twists launches next week at the National Museum of Ireland, writes Carol O’Callaghan.

When Donna Gilligan tried to track down surviving objects and images from the Irish suffrage movement, there was little to be found. It’s another example of women’s history being excluded from the national narrative, she tells Helen O’Callaghan.

In this decade of centenaries, it is important that the National Museum of Ireland mark the centenary of the Spanish Flu outbreak that swept Ireland during 1918 and 1919.

Gráinne McGuinness offers consumer advice on planning holidays.

The everyday homes and utensils of our Viking ancestors have been brought to life as archaeological artefacts from Cork’s early medieval city go on public display.

The New York sale of a 1917 nude painting by Amadeo Modigliani is believed to have earned horse stud owner John Magnier close to €120m.

Carol O’Callaghan explores the ever-evolving Irish design collection at the National Museum of Ireland.

It is one of the most significant projects to be undertaken in the State, yet the Cork events centre only gets a mention in Project Ireland 2040.

A hillwalker’s chance discovery of bones in a Mayo mountain chamber has led to the identification of ancient rituals carried out more than 4,500 years ago.

Some €1.6m has been earmarked for the refurbishment of a historic house in Cork, on the site of one of Ireland’s top free visitor attractions.

A unique collection of ex-Taoiseach and GAA legend Jack Lynch’s personal, political and sporting belongings is available for close inspection in his native Cork for the first time.

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

Some Australians refuse to believe in this, almost mythical, creature’s demise, writes Richard Collins.

It’s unseemly to view the artefacts of the past on display at the NMI when staff are being harassed in the present. Complaints have been ignored by the Department of the Arts, writes Clodagh Finn.

It is heartening to see the spirit of that ‘Don’t Turf it Out’ campaign still endures. At least some of the 100-year-old papers, photographs and documents that might have ended up in skips have been preserved, writes Clodagh Finn.

The famed Honan Chapel in University College Cork is set to celebrate its 100th year.

The former director of the National Museum is furious that the Seanad is to move into the building while staff are so anxious they have been “weeping”.

Eoghan Clonan, 13, has to lie on the ground of the Natural History Museum so his father Tom can carry his wheelchair up to the first floor, because there is no lift in this national building.

Humans lived in Ireland 2,500 years earlier than was previously thought.

A cast iron toffee axe — normally used to break up large slabs of toffee in confectioner shops — became a weapon in the hands of a looter in O’Connell St.

The two salvaged anchors from the 1916 German gun-running ship, the Aud, will be ready for permanent public display within weeks.

Until 1916, this half brick formed part of the wall at Portobello Barracks, now Cathal Brugha Barracks, in Rathmines.

A pair of incredibly rare Kinsale silver trefid spoons which Weldons will bring to the National Antiques and Vintage Fair in Limerick.

This cricket bat was on display in the front window of Elvery’s when it became an early casualty of the violence that erupted in Dublin’s Sackville St, now O’Connell St, on Easter Monday, 1916.

The announcement that the State has finally purchased the derelict 1916 National Monument at 14 to 17 Moore Street, greeted by some as a giant leap forward, raises serious and fundamental questions that need now to be addressed in the public interest: