We could be looking at the next Jack Yeats, Francis Bacon, or Robert Ballagh if the quality of this year’s Texaco Children’s Art Compeition was anything to go by.

AMERICAN poet Charles Bukowski was not noted for his sunny disposition. 

Roz Purcell, Natalie B Coleman, Elaine Crowley, Courtney Smith and Glenda Gilson reveal their favourite restaurants, bars and gyms in Dublin’s city centre.

As one of the longest running and most well-known competitions in Ireland, the Texaco Children’s Art Competition is always a huge draw.

A small but valuable painting stolen from a Dublin art gallery more than 20 years ago is back hanging on its walls after being recovered by detectives.

The Hugh Lane gallery in Dublin is to exhibit material relating to the auction-smashing triptych of Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon.

LOUISE Kennedy’s clothes are never off the fashion pages, but it’s difficult to believe she’s been designing for 30 years.

Louise Kennedy’s clothes are never off the fashion pages, but it’s difficult to believe she’s been designing for 30 years.

Gavin Friday’s album Catholic pays tribute to those killed between 1916 and 1922 who might have built a better nation, says Alan O’Riordan

Exhibition at CIT Wandesford Quay contrasts classical realist drawing with contemporary practices,says Carl Dixon

What I do: I am a soprano and a traditional Irish musician.

THE simple hut in which Roald Dahl weaved his magical tales to captivate millions of readers is to be preserved for his fans worldwide.

MICHEÁL MARTIN tried to turn a lack of election promises into a virtue at the launch of his party’s manifesto.

LAST WEEK I hopped off the train in Portlaoise on my way to Cork especially to make “an appearance” at a book launch — not something I would do on a regular basis.

An Post is to honour one of the world’s most prized artists in a new collection.

The Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil Ministers will travel the country in a ’battle bus’ in a bid to secure a yes vote in the Lisbon Treaty referendum on June 12, it was claimed today.

A plan to throw open the doors of dozens of Dublin’s museums, galleries and theatres for one evening will be unveiled today.

PICKETS may continue to be placed at building sites operated by Collen Construction Ltd, campaign leader Richard Boyd Barrett warned last night.

CONTROVERSIAL Dublin-born artist Francis Bacon used gruesome images in medical books for inspiration for some of his most shocking paintings, it was revealed yesterday.

Controversial Dublin-born artist Francis Bacon used gruesome images in medical books for inspiration for some of his most shocking paintings, it was revealed today.

The studio of Irish artist Francis Bacon, which has been shipped from London to Dublin, opens today.