Dan O’Neill’s distinctive and atmospheric oil on board with blue hues entitled Travelling Through Kerry was the top lot at Morgan O’Driscoll’s sale at the RDS on Monday. 

Irish art will come under the hammer in Dublin and London next week. Fresh from his viewing in Skibbereen last weekend Morgan O’Driscoll will bring 124 lots to the RDS for auction on Monday at 6 pm.

Variety on offer at the Ib Jorgensen Collection, writes Des OSullivan.

IT STRUCK a sensitive nerve when the poet WJ Mc Cormack, aka Hugh Maxton, this week defended Aosdána’s annual funding of €2.7 million by mentioning that Fair City cost €11 million. This fact was met, according to an RTÉ report, with laughter from the floor of Aosdána’s general assembly meeting at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham.

In 2013 there were buyers available, but a shortage of work at the top end of the market, writes Des O’Sullivan.

In one of his last published pieces, Séamus Heaney recalled his friendship with the art critic Dorothy Walker, currently the subject of an exhibition in Dublin.

ONE of Ireland’s best known hotels, which has counted Princess Grace, Charles de Gaulle and George Bernard Shaw as guests, reopened yesterday following a multi-mullion euro refurbishment.

AN acclaimed Irish fashion designer has produced eight exquisite dresses inspired from a series of masterpieces that will be included in a sale of art works worth around €3 million in Dublin next week.