President Michael D Higgins attended the launch yesterday of the 300th anniversary celebrations of one of Cork’s oldest churches.

Des O’Sullivan on the discovery of a portrait by Cork’s Daniel Maclise. An x-ray of the painting revealed 70% of it’s surface to be unoriginal.

1848 work illustrates the Queen’s Old Castle department store and is estimated at €2,500 says Des O’Sullivan.

Des O’Sullivan says that 2015 has been a year when records were broken for sales of art and sculpture.

Fine Irish furniture, an antique pierced steel helmet reputedly owned by Sir Thomas Wentworth, the harp owned by Derek Bell of The Chieftains, and a set of bagpipes used at Fenian gatherings in West Cork gives some idea of the range and breadth of the Guinness family collections to be sold in Naas today.

Des O’Sullivan finds Ireland represented as a female figure in The Spirit of Justice under the hammer in Co Kildare.

A magnificently conserved drawing of the Battle of Waterloo by Cork born artist Daniel Maclise (1809-1870) has just gone on display at the Royal Academy in London. The critically acclaimed cartoon — The Meeting of Wellington and Blucher after the Battle of Waterloo — is more than 13m wide and 3m high.

The 19th century Cork artist, Daniel MacDonald, was the only painter brave enough to paint the Famine as it was happening, and Professor Niamh O’Sullivan is appealing to people in the Cork area to scour their attics for his valuable work.

For Tori Amos, spending time in Co Cork has provided both refuge and inspiration, writes Ed Power.

From food to festivals, movies to music, our critics reveal their top picks for summer.

A new exhibition at the Crawford Art Gallery explores the brief career of Samuel Forde, says Tina Darb O’Sullivan

Album: The Henry Girls

Slowly, the Irish art market is climbing out of recession.

177 lots at Adams sale include Lavery, Yeats and Henry, Des O’Sullivan reports.

AN 1829 watercolour by Daniel Maclise RA, (1806-1870), of a young girl at play comes up at Morgan O’Driscoll’s sale at the Clyde Court Hotel in Dublin next Monday evening.

THE fascinating archive of businessman Richard Dowden, who was the mayor of Cork in 1845, has finally been catalogued after a painstaking 12-month project by staff at the Cork City and County Archives.

Des O’Sullivan unfolds a treasure trove of art sales that include a rare Joseph O’Reilly and work by modern artists

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

Daniel Maclise, R.A., The Wrestling Scene in 'As You Like It' signed and dated 'D MACLISE 1854'. Image courtesy Christie's.

GET lost in one of Ireland’s best known paintings by looking up the National Gallery’s online project, which allows you to follow the restoration of Daniel Maclise’s The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife.

Words Alone: Yeats and his Inheritances, RF Foster, Oxford University Press, €22.95

FOLLOWING the success of the James Barry exhibition, the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork is preparing a similar project highlighting the achievements of Daniel Maclise (1806-1870).