New season Le Creuset goes green; garden rooms and how to furnish themHome front: design, interiors, peopleSat Jun 03 2017 - 07:00
Antiques and fine art autions and resultsCopy of a manuscript page of James Joyce’s ‘Finnegans Wake’ goes for €27,000 (estimate €7,600-€10,000)Sat Jun 03 2017 - 05:00
Welcome to Sears Salon and its eclectic artA fresh mix of newcomers and well-known artists on Molesworth StSat Jun 03 2017 - 05:00
Yeats makes double the estimate as art market reboundsHis landscape ‘Early Morning, Cliffony’, from the late Gillian Bowler collection, achieves a hammer price of €70,000 at Adam’s saleSat Jun 03 2017 - 05:00
Collectors expected to spend €1.8m at Jesuit book saleRare books from Milltown library include works by Shakespeare and SwiftSat Jun 03 2017 - 05:00
A celebration in stone and cementThe Times We Lived In – Published: December 19th, 1988. Photograph by Eddie KellySat Jun 03 2017 - 05:00
Marie-Louise O’Murphy, the Versailles king’s Irish mistressIrish Connections: When Louis XV saw a painting of a naked 15-year-old, he wanted to see moreSat Jun 03 2017 - 05:00
Flann O’Brien’s writing desk expected to make €1,000Harry Potter books, James Joyce manuscript and GAA medals also feature in Mealy’s saleSat May 27 2017 - 05:00
Classic garden furniture on display in a stunning Laois settingSheppard’s shows antique statues, urns and sundials in Gash Gardens ahead of saleSat May 27 2017 - 05:00
Gillian Bowler’s art is the star of summer saleLate businesswoman’s collection is at centre of Adam’s ‘Important Irish Art’ auctionSat May 27 2017 - 05:00
Charles Blacker Vignoles: Tsar Nicholas I’s Irish bridge-builderIrish Connections: The engineer designed a graceful structure that spanned the DnieperSat May 27 2017 - 05:00
Auctions and Fairs: Results and upcoming salesSale of contents of the former Central Bank building to take place in the Heritage HotelSat May 27 2017 - 05:00
Home Front: Garden design tips from a lawyerThis week’s edition also visits an artist on Achill Island and looks at floral furnitureSat May 27 2017 - 00:00
Will Self: ‘Something funny is going on in terms of our reality testing’The author is just out of surgery, which may account for why he thinks we have a fondness for worrying about the wrong thingsWed May 24 2017 - 05:00
Fine furniture to see at Birr Castle this summerParsons family to open house to the public this summer for tours of Co Offaly castleSat May 20 2017 - 07:00
Bill Scott’s ‘Blue Still Life’ is star of the seasonLarge scale still life attracting big interest from abroadSat May 20 2017 - 05:00
The Irishman who printed the US Declaration of IndependenceRumour has it Thomas Jefferson dropped into John Dunlap’s print shop in Philadelphia that busy nightSat May 20 2017 - 05:00
Auctions & Fairs‘Railwayana’ sale takes in €77,000 as Japanese box sells for over 40 times estimateSat May 20 2017 - 05:00
1916 Rising surrender order and rare florin in London saleDocument typed up in British army HQ and signed by Pearse estimated at £80,000Sat May 20 2017 - 05:00
Home Front: Interiors, design, people & eventsA planter from shipping pallets; Zelouf&Bell in Kilkenny and good buys in classic chairsSat May 13 2017 - 07:00
The curious contents of a colonel’s homeSale of lots at Meath house reveal life of an old-world veteran with a brave pastSat May 13 2017 - 05:00
Edward ‘Paddy’ Gleeson, king of Clare and master of Australian wineIrish Connections: Why the finest wines from Down Under have an Irish name in the titleSat May 13 2017 - 05:00
Silver is back on the table as Adam’s opens a treasure troveOne of Ireland’s best-known dealers, Jimmy Weldon, has organised a special auction of his collection of rare and unusual antique silverwareSat May 13 2017 - 05:00
Auction results and forthcoming salesAn iconic picture of Samuel Beckett and a champion dog collar were among the salesSat May 13 2017 - 05:00
Abbey Leix: built on a budget and lavishly restoredThe 18th-century house and lands are the subject of William Laffan’s splendid bookSat May 13 2017 - 05:00
Hashtag Tourism: What’s the most Instagrammed place in Ireland?You’ll have to head north for the biggest Irish hit on Instagram, which is not that far behind Mount Rushmore in popularityWed May 10 2017 - 13:20
Mary Jemison, the Irishwoman who turned Native AmericanIrish Connections: Kidnapped in 1775 after her family’s slaughter, she was raised by the Seneca tribeSat May 06 2017 - 05:00
Stormy seas the star in Dún Laoghaire exhibitionDublin Painting and Sketching Club turns its sights seawards for annual showSat May 06 2017 - 05:00
Auction results and forthcoming salesSolid gold rings and a ‘Remember the Lusitania’ poster sold at Adam’s in DublinSat May 06 2017 - 05:00
Embracing the antiques road show in FranceA love of vintage has turned into a career for Kildare woman Dee Brophy – and her dogSat May 06 2017 - 05:00
A gem of a sale at Adam’sDiamonds, rubies, sapphires and a cute dog in fine jewellery auctionSat May 06 2017 - 05:00
Interiors news: Hot seats in pop-up stores and Penneys’ tropical touchBrighter colours for brighter daysSat May 06 2017 - 05:00
From the Archive: Getting the measure of two Galloglass grotesquesPublished: March 10th, 1993. Photograph by Matt KavanaghSat May 06 2017 - 01:00
The mark of Lamport: The real Zorro was from WexfordIrish connections: Born William Lamport in 1611, Guillén Lombardo lived a swashbuckling lifeSat Apr 29 2017 - 06:00
Trophy Irish buy at Sotheby’s From Earth to Fire saleThe racing cup – presented by Sir Robert Peel – got its first outing at the Curragh in I819Sat Apr 29 2017 - 05:00
Top Irish dog, mentioned in ‘Ulysees’, lives on in auction lotsA red setter called Garryowen was so famous he even had his own brand tobaccoSat Apr 29 2017 - 05:00
Fine art sales results and upcoming auctions‘Emigrants Scene’ by Jack B Yeats, just seven inches high by nine inches wide, made €700Sat Apr 29 2017 - 05:00
The Times We Lived In: The man who rode alonePublished: July 3rd, 1967 Photograph by Dermot O’SheaSat Apr 29 2017 - 01:00
Deck chair with a difference; TK Maxx just for homes; do the mothsA look at what’s new in interiorsSat Apr 29 2017 - 00:00
Tiffany times two in spring jewellery salesDiamonds, vintage emeralds and a block of silver among star lotsSat Apr 22 2017 - 06:00
How to furnish an Irish country house – from hall chairs to antique ‘beer fridge’Sheppard’s Irish interiors has more than 1,000 lots of fine furniture and fittingsSat Apr 22 2017 - 06:00
Crafty idea for veg; a table on the side and Roche BoboisHome front: design, interiors, people, eventsSat Apr 22 2017 - 00:00
Art and antiques: auctions, results, fairsBrisk trade at Irish Art Auction in Dublin with 90% of lots soldSat Apr 22 2017 - 00:00
Pickhandle Mary, the Irish activist who fought for workers’ rights in South AfricaIrish Connections: Mary Fitzgerald Square, in Johannesburg, is named in honour of the trade unionist and feministFri Apr 21 2017 - 17:00
From the Archive: The rook and the rookie come face to facePublished: May 1st, 1986. Photograph by Dermot O’SheaThu Apr 20 2017 - 16:43
From the Archive: Before the Diet Coke hunk, there was this chapPublished: August 2nd, 1987. Photograph by Paddy WhelanThu Apr 20 2017 - 16:43
Two small but smart homes in Dublin’s inner suburbsTerraced houses in Dublin 8, at €365,000 and €400,000, are close to both city centre and M50Tue Apr 18 2017 - 10:15
From the Archive: What’s all the fuss about smashing atoms?Published: September 24th, 1955.Photograph by Jack McManusMon Apr 17 2017 - 20:29
