Banksy act of art destruction has said something that needed to be said: art is being choked to death by money

Home Front: Make a new year’s resolution to freshen up your home

Gallery honours 88-year-old painter with show of a lifetime’s work

Elizabeth Magill makes works of tremendous beauty, but she’s not averse to a little rough treatment to get to the heart of the work

Writer and illustrator’s ‘Alfie’ books have raised generations of book lovers

A classical painter who benefited from revived interest in the art form

Reluctant banker and ‘one of Ireland’s finest artists’

In Oil is the Devil's Excrement, artist David Jacques looks at how oil discoveries can hamper a country, as domestic manufacturing and agriculture fade and growth suffers in the long term

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In later years his face developed creases like the famous ‘lived-in’ face of Samuel Beckett

James Gorry, a Dublin picture restorer and art dealer, shares his wisdom

Obituary: Agony aunt and novelist whose ferocious honesty on depression saved lives

The Cork artist had his critics, but his sexuality was not the issue

From Chupi to Sian Jacobs, Irish designers are gaining confidence and global fans

There's a nod to visual art, the stage, and even a robot-themed 3D printing company in Gemma Tipton's selection of people to watch in the arts this year

Rubens’s The Monk was apparently rejected for auction and is returning to Ireland

An Taisce calls for political intervention while Minister says she was not consulted

Mullarney sets memorable characters loose on stage; while Seawright shows us malevolent landscapes

After an unenviable start, Limerick rallied its foot soldiers to its City of Culture cause. Has it delivered on its promises?

Graduate of the Glasgow School of Art wins for his series of films It For Others