The art of the Victorian seasideA 19th-century painting called ‘The Convalescent’ evokes the healing power of the beachSat Aug 08 2015 - 02:00
Sotheby’s to relaunch ‘The Irish Sale’ in LondonOrpen and Yeats to feature as appetite returns for Irish artThu Aug 06 2015 - 01:00
Michael Flatley’s paintings generate sales of €1 millionRetired dancer’s art career has taken flight following his debut exhibition in LondonTue Aug 04 2015 - 01:00
Bank holiday auction roundupPaintings by Jack B Yeats and Harry Kernoff among those going under the hammer in the coming daysSat Aug 01 2015 - 07:16
Painting ‘en plein air’ – or plain rainEurope’s biggest outdoor painting event underway in WexfordSat Aug 01 2015 - 07:00
West Cork online auctionLots include work by Mark O’Neill, Markey Robinson and Graham KnuttelSat Aug 01 2015 - 07:00
Wicklow’s stolen paintingsArt taken in burglary includes work by Lavery, Yeats and Paul HenrySat Aug 01 2015 - 07:00
Man cutting hedge finds stolen paintings worth €180,000Garda confirm recovery of works by Sir John Lavery, Jack B Yeats and Paul HenryTue Jul 28 2015 - 16:49
Case over Beit art export licences resumesAn Taisce seeks review in High Court of licences to sell paintings in LondonMon Jul 27 2015 - 01:00
Cantillon’s first-edition ‘Essai’ makes £40,000 at Christie’s auctionKerry economist’s 18-century essay now one of the world’s most collectible rare booksMon Jul 27 2015 - 01:00
Roger Casement letter sells online for $11,025Unpublished letter, which was sold to private buyer in Ireland, sheds new light on his growing disenchantment with the British empireSat Jul 25 2015 - 06:00
Stained glass adds colour to the last major auction of the summer seasonThere were strong prices and big surprises at the Chatsworth sale at Fonsie Mealy AuctioneersSat Jul 25 2015 - 05:00
Jesuit pays 10 times estimate for Harry Clarke windowPriest pays €31,000 for piece depicting co-founder of order St Francis XavierTue Jul 21 2015 - 21:12
British medal awarded in wake of 1916 to be auctionedTerenure bookseller decorated with St Andrew’s award for services renderedTue Jul 21 2015 - 01:00
Auction of Irish officer’s first World War belongings, intact after 100 yearsLast major auction of summer includes collection from Harry Clarke StudiosSun Jul 19 2015 - 20:00
See Naples and sighLong blighted by a negative image, Naples deserves to regain its place in the list of the world’s must-see destinationsSat Jul 18 2015 - 07:00
Northern Ireland art at Adam’sPaintings by George Campbell, Gerard Dillon and Daniel O’Neill can be viewed in Dublin and DownSat Jul 18 2015 - 03:00
Belfast publican pays €18,000 for Donegal carpetThe blue carpet, measuring 14m by 5m, was made for the New Ireland Assurance company for its Dublin boardroom in 1964Sat Jul 18 2015 - 01:00
Charles Dickens and the ‘exceedingly whimsical’ fans exhibitionMealy’s auction includes exotic fans once reviewed by Charles DickensSun Jul 12 2015 - 10:20
Mechanical rodent for the richPearl, gold and enamel automaton mouse fetches more than €500,000 at Sotheby’sSat Jul 11 2015 - 05:00
€25,000 Donegal carpet for auction‘New Ireland Carpet’ for auction at Mealy’s measures about 13.7m by 5mSat Jul 11 2015 - 05:00
Auction resultsTony O’Malley’s ‘Bahamas Collage’ sells for €3,800 in online art auctionSat Jul 11 2015 - 05:00
Harry Clarke stained glass windows to be auctionedPieces were made for churches in Ireland, Wales and New Zealand but never installedThu Jul 09 2015 - 01:00
Unknown Roger Casement letter of 1913 to be sold in Cape TownCasement expresses disillusionment with British Empire, criticises policy in S AfricaTue Jul 07 2015 - 01:00
Portrait of Michael Collins in west Cork auctionNoel Murphy painting in online art auctionSat Jul 04 2015 - 05:00
Lucian Freud’s ‘Four Eggs on a Plate’ fetches almost £1mFrancis Bacon’s ‘Self-Portrait, 1975’ sells above estimates for £15.3m at Sotheby’sSat Jul 04 2015 - 05:00
Asian lots top Sheppard’s bill againChinese Qing period vases sell for €60,000 – 50 times the top estimateSat Jul 04 2015 - 04:00
Auction resultsJack B Yeats’ ‘The Light of Town’ sells above estimates for £67,300 at Christie’s AuctionsSat Jul 04 2015 - 04:00
The Irish bishop and his tiger skin trophyPreserved tiger skin and the photo of the bishop who shot the animal in 1911 among quirky lots at Sheppard's auctionSat Jun 27 2015 - 06:00
‘Selfies’ by Francis Bacon go on sale at London auctionSotheby’s says self-portraits ‘exude conceptual brilliance and painterly genius’Sat Jun 27 2015 - 05:00
Mixed results for first editions of James Joyce’s UlyssesPortrait of the Artist goes for £40,000 and Poems by WB Yeats sells for £9,000Sat Jun 27 2015 - 05:00
Cork priest’s war medals to go on auction this weekFr Tom Duggan was a staunch nationalist who fought for British in both World WarsSat Jun 27 2015 - 01:00
Cork priest who served in two World Wars but was staunch nationalistFr Tom Duggan was captured as a PoW and attended IRA leader Tom Barry’s weddingSat Jun 27 2015 - 01:00
Christie’s formally withdraws auction of Beit picturesSix paintings, including two Rubens, were set to be sold on July 9thThu Jun 25 2015 - 14:36
Gun Ian Paisley gave to Bertie Ahern was loan, not giftCarbine reputedly used at Battle of the Boyne to be auctionedWed Jun 24 2015 - 16:37
Beit painting sold to Ukrainian-born billionaireBritain’s richest man Leonard Blavatnik buys Beit painting in private Christie’s dealMon Jun 22 2015 - 01:00
‘Royal Ascot’ bidder fails to nab ‘Goresbridge’ painting at de VeresIrish buyer purchases Peter Curling’s ‘Horse Fair at Goresbridge’ for €31,000Sat Jun 20 2015 - 00:00
Walter Frederick Osborne, Jack B Yeats paintings for London auctionsOsborne’s ‘Boy on a Donkey in Snowy Landscape’ estimated at £10,000-£15,000Sat Jun 20 2015 - 00:00
Artist couple’s personal collection to be soldWorks by sculptor Conor Fallon and painter Nancy Wynne-Jones in last auction of Dublin summer seasonSat Jun 20 2015 - 00:00
Russborough House refuses request to delay Beit saleHeather Humphreys asked trust to reconsider auction of paintings from collectionTue Jun 16 2015 - 22:10
Two Russborough Beit paintings sell for £112,500Paintings sell at low end of expectations at auction in LondonTue Jun 16 2015 - 17:50
Questions over authenticity of Russborough paintingRubens’s The Monk was apparently rejected for auction and is returning to IrelandTue Jun 16 2015 - 08:38
Two Beit works from Russborough House ready for saleChristie’s auctioneers will sell paintings by John Atkinson Grimshaw in LondonMon Jun 15 2015 - 01:00
Terry O’Neill photos of Hollywood stars for auction in LondonPrints include Brigitte Bardot, Frank Sinatra, Steve McQueen and David BowieSat Jun 13 2015 - 05:00
Lucien Freud’s golden eggs for the duchessPainting given by artist Lucian Freud to the late Dowager Duchess of Devonshire to be auctioned in LondonSat Jun 13 2015 - 05:00
