First Look: Multimillion-euro pub, restaurant and wine bar on Dublin’s Dawson Street
Lennan’s Yard will offer several eating and drinking options, indoors and outdoors
Alice Maher
The RDS Arts Awards can launch careers, but what about the art of rejection?
Curator Vera Klute, who makes a living solely from her art, insists setbacks are normal
Imma at 30: Reframing the role of exhibitionist in a changing landscape
The Irish Museum of Modern Art celebrates its 30th birthday at a tricky time for museums
ClassicsNow festival set to bring ancient Greece and Rome to life
Theatre, dance and literature events can all be enjoyed online
Sharing wisdom in a time of crisis: 25 ways to live your life to the full
Brendan Gleeson, Eavan Boland, John Creedon and others pass on advice during this uncertain time
Charities more in need of a helping hand than ever as coronavirus cuts deep
As the pandemic continues, fundraising efforts severely hampered by current restrictions
Do we really need an exhibition of women’s art? Yes
The Elliptical Affinities exhibition at the Highlanes Gallery gives us a peek at what a differently-centred world might look like
Galway festival offers impressive art in occasionally underwhelming displays
Galway International Arts Festival 2019 largely overcomes issues with venues
Festival director calls for dedicated visual arts space for Galway
Paul Fahy says it is ‘shocking’ that city is still without a proper cultural hub and gallery
Galway International Arts Festival: The must-see events
The best picks from this year’s selection of theatre, street spectacle and quirky surprise
Galway arts festival and painted poems: This week’s best visual arts shows
A collection of labourers’ cottages in Co Wexford is among the other highlights
A matter of life and death: the startling lifelike sculptures of Sam Jinks
Artist Sam Jinks’s exhibition gets to grips with life (the universe and everything)
Cool mid-century design and a Hermès suede cabinet at Adam’s
European 20th-century furniture and contemporary Irish art feature in April sale
Guardian’s modern Ireland book recommendations are ‘b*ll*cks’
Irish writers have poured scorn on a Guardian listing of books that define Ireland
Charlie Murphy: On My Culture Radar
The actor on dining in London, Benedict Cumberbatch and why she loves Galway
RHA Annual: No wallflowers at this rowdy art party
With 600 pieces to fit in, famous names jostle for space with newcomers, but there’s no one at this party you wouldn’t be happy to go home with
Women artists ‘reclaiming history we were written out of’
Artists have a rich history of activism, using their talents to take their messages out of the gallery and into the street
‘In England they ask: What is it’ In Ireland they ask: What does it mean?’
The work of Iriish artist Eilís O’Connell features in a major exhibition in England alongside artists Damien Hirst, Lynn Chadwick, Antony Gormley and Elisabeth Frink
We’re all deeply weird and 'normal' can be a crushing concept
The visual art at this year's Galway International Arts Festival has lots of odd junctures, strange characters and weird journeys
‘I was really interested in hairy ladies. The deviance’
Artist Niamh McGuinne on combing through the rich and strange history of hair
Why are women artists hard to find in our ‘boy crazy’ museums and galleries?
A gender audit reveals a poor representation of women in some of our national cultural institutions
Away with the fairies: Irish folklore is alive and weird
You won’t find Michael Fortune’s colourful explorations of folklore in an art gallery – try the parish hall, handball alley or retirement home
RDS Visual Arts Awards: encouraging a new generation
Revamped event, with prize fund of €20,000, showcases the work of emerging artists
Culture Shock: Never mind the cult of youth – let’s hear it for the auld ones
Are you washed up creatively at 40? Doomed to average ordinariness in all things?
Pieces of Me: David O’Donoghue, fine art printer
An industrial dishwasher, a vintage car and a “soggy-bottom” chair
Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 2004 – The Four Directions, by Alice Maher
Artist Alice Maher, the ultimate practitioner of mix’n’match media, brought new meaning to the term ‘shell shock’ with this sculpture
Art that’s at home in the material world
A group exhibition curated by Janet Mullarney is accessible, unpredictable and rewarding
Pieces of me: Susan Zelouf, furniture designer
Susan Zelouf - one half of Zelouf and Bell - looks to her travels and the everyday for inspiration
Pieces of me: artist Anita Groener
This Dutch-born artist loves her studio and says interiors without art and books are lifeless
Dublin has an artistic crisis on its hands. Now is the time to act
Dublin City Council is about to sign off on a new City Development plan. Addressing the crisis in artists’ studio spaces is crucial for the fabric of the city
Visual Art: Why Gretchen Bender’s work is ripe for revival
The late American media artist was ahead of her time, but her reputation is now catching up with her powerful work; and Mayo artists respond to their home county
Leading Irish artists call for repeal of 8th amendment
Novelists, poets and painters state abortion amendment is ‘ongoing cause of shame’
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