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John B. Keane portrait art print

John B. Keane: the publican who wrote the plays...

The Abbey turned down five of his plays. A drama group from a town of three thousand people put Sive on in a ballroom, took it to the All-Ireland, and...

John B. Keane: the publican who wrote the plays...

The Abbey turned down five of his plays. A drama group from a town of three thousand people put Sive on in a ballroom, took it to the All-Ireland, and...

The Song of the Mad Prince, 1917, by Harry Clarke

Harry Clarke: the blues, the books, and the win...

Edith Somerville called his windows a kind of hellish splendour. How Harry Clarke made glass behave that way, illustrated Poe, and made a window his own government would not send...

Harry Clarke: the blues, the books, and the win...

Edith Somerville called his windows a kind of hellish splendour. How Harry Clarke made glass behave that way, illustrated Poe, and made a window his own government would not send...

Celtic Tree of Life art print in black and white, roots and branches meeting in a circle

The Celtic Tree of Life: what the symbol means,...

The tree in the circle is a twentieth-century design. What lies behind it is an eighth-century law text that fined you three cattle for lopping a branch, and two provinces...

The Celtic Tree of Life: what the symbol means,...

The tree in the circle is a twentieth-century design. What lies behind it is an eighth-century law text that fined you three cattle for lopping a branch, and two provinces...

Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs, 1864, by Frederic William Burton, National Gallery of Ireland

The Meeting on the Turret Stairs: the story beh...

Burton painted a kiss on a sleeve and left out the seven brothers. The Danish ballad behind the picture, why the National Gallery can only show it two hours a...

The Meeting on the Turret Stairs: the story beh...

Burton painted a kiss on a sleeve and left out the seven brothers. The Danish ballad behind the picture, why the National Gallery can only show it two hours a...

Walter Osborne painting of a Dublin street with a cathedral tower

The Photograph Behind the Painting: Walter Osbo...

A newly digitised photograph reveals exactly how Walter Osborne built one of his best known Dublin street paintings. Here is the story, the film, and his work in print.

The Photograph Behind the Painting: Walter Osbo...

A newly digitised photograph reveals exactly how Walter Osborne built one of his best known Dublin street paintings. Here is the story, the film, and his work in print.

Cubist composition by Irish modernist painter Mainie Jellett

Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone: The Friendship Th...

Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone met as students in 1920s Paris and became the two women who pushed Irish art into modernism. Here is their story, plus prints of their...

Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone: The Friendship Th...

Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone met as students in 1920s Paris and became the two women who pushed Irish art into modernism. Here is their story, plus prints of their...