Upcoming sales feature antique garden furniture and rare Chinese bowls

For more than three decades the Olympics ran artistic competitions in tandem with the games, with several familiar Irish winners. But the competition was derailed by accusations of corruption, nepotism and an apathetic organising committee

Three major auction houses – Whyte’s, de Veres and Adam’s – hold sales from Monday

‘Hearing the Nightingale’, a 1936 painting by Jack B Yeats, sells for €42,500

Far from being a corporate bauble, the AIB Art Collection, featuring Sir John Lavery, Jack B Yeats and Roderic O’Conor among others, is an exceptional showcase of 20th-century Irish work

Free event on St Stephen’s Green gives the public access to works that cannot normally be viewed.

Paintings had been consigned to sale by the heirs of the late Mervyn Solomon