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

 

The Chatsworth Spring Fine Art sale on Wednesday is full of glorious rarities, writes Des O’Sullivan.       

Adam Attic Sale features decorative arts, Des O’Sullivan reports.

The minister responsible for the OPW Brian Hayes has said planning permission will be lodged within the next two weeks to refurbish and open the ground floor of a Georgian mansion in north Cork which is hoped will one day rival Muckross House as a tourist attraction.

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This painting by Eadaoin Harding Kemp recalls the Lavit Gallery at its original home on Lavit’s Quay in Cork before redevelopment.

A FARM of land due up for auction on September 29 next has a long and very interesting history.

It is just three months shy of the 190th anniversary of the visit of George IV, who was the first British monarch to come to this country without an accompanying army. Queen Elizabeth II will arrive today, accompanied by an army of media.

THE royal wedding guests will celebrate the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton in one of the most opulent buildings in the world — Buckingham Palace.

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth will make one of the shortest but most significant journeys of her 57-year reign when she travels to Ireland later this year. It comes more than 150 years after the trips by Queen Victoria. Ryle Dwyer looks at the first visits of Victoria and her predecessor, George IV.

Lucy Worsley

BRITAIN, it seems, is drowning in a vale of tears. One after another, in the run-up to their general election, British politicians are lining up to emote in public. Never before have so many cried so easily, so openly and so often.

Three generations of an American family were wiped out when a chartered aircraft carrying them to a game reserve crashed into Mount Kenya, killing all 12 tourists and the two South African pilots.

Princess Margaret’s ashes are expected to be interred with the Queen Mother’s coffin in the George VI Memorial Chapel at Windsor.