My Life’s Work: Éamonn de Búrca, antiquarian bookseller and publisher, Dublin“I bought my first antiquarian book in Castlebar at the age of 16”Sat Mar 12 2016 - 05:45
What it went for: Auction resultsPaintings by Roderic O’Conor, William Leech, Sir John Lavery and Paul Henry all sell; Irish silver and march hares on the marketSat Mar 12 2016 - 05:45
Rising time has comeWill this weekend’s major centenary auction live up to the attendant hype around 1916 memorabilia?Sat Mar 12 2016 - 05:45
Easter Rising rebels’ medals to be auctioned in Dublin1916 Medals were awarded posthumously to Thomas Clarke and Joseph PlunkettThu Mar 10 2016 - 08:33
‘Lost’ Francis Bacon nude found on the backs of two paintingsArtist’s portrait has been discovered on the reverse of works by Irish artist Tony O’MalleyWed Mar 09 2016 - 01:00
Irish donor gives Nicolae Ceausescu’s Mercedes to charityLate Romanian dictator’s car with Securitate technology to be sold in aid of CrosscauseMon Mar 07 2016 - 17:44
My Life’s Work: Martin Fennelly, antiques dealer, DublinThe former banker runs his own shop on Francis Street in Dublin’s ‘art and antiques quarter’Sat Mar 05 2016 - 01:00
‘God Save the Queen’ clock winds up in Co RoscommonStrokestown Park is revealed as new home for the ‘Speaker’s Clock’, Ireland’s Big BenSat Mar 05 2016 - 01:00
Paintings by William Leech and Roderic O’Conor for Mother’s Day at de VeresLeech’s ‘The Housekeeper’, an oil on canvas, has an estimate of €30,000-€50,000Sat Mar 05 2016 - 01:00
Hammer falls on Seán FitzPatrickDrawing from the Celtic Tiger era goes for €3,000Wed Mar 02 2016 - 18:32
My Life’s Work: George Gerard Mealy, art and antiques auctioneer and valuer, Kilkenny‘Buy what you like, as you have to live with it’Sat Feb 27 2016 - 02:00
Map of Abbeyleix Manor reappears after 200 yearsAn estate map made in 1828 was discovered in the loft of an outhouse belonging to the Viscounts de Vesci, who planned the townSat Feb 27 2016 - 01:00
What it went for: auction highlightsJames Bond memorabilia at Christie’s, fine period interiors at Adam’s and a Dublin book fair to look forward toSat Feb 27 2016 - 01:00
‘Poignant’ Jack B Yeats painting in RDS showWhyte’s auction highlight is a ‘rare depiction of urban life in 1920s Ireland’. The show also includes work by Paul Henry, Patrick Hennessy, Edmond Delrenne and Blaise SmithSat Feb 27 2016 - 01:00
Cheltenham painting from Cashel hotel fetches €13,000 at auctionBuyer may represent consortium that bought hotel, according to speculationMon Feb 22 2016 - 01:00
Princess Diana’s friendship with Irish nun revealedLetters from ‘people’s princess’ to go under the hammer with top end reserve of €1,200Sat Feb 20 2016 - 01:00
Auction results: Lucian Freud’s ‘Head of Esther’Lucian Freud’s ‘Head of Esther’ sells at Christie’s for £4.7m (estimate £2.5m-£3.5m)Sat Feb 20 2016 - 01:00
The legacy of the Duchess of DevonshireDeborah Cavendish’s personal collection includes a previously unknown painting of Lismore Castle, her Elvis ephemera, and a signed first edition of ‘Brideshead Revisited’Sat Feb 20 2016 - 01:00
My Life’s Work: Erica Devine, consultant conservator‘Memorable projects include preparing the jewelled Star of the Order of St Patrick for display at the banquet for Queen Elizabeth in Dublin Castle’Sat Feb 20 2016 - 01:00
An ugly bird with a pretty high priceAn anthropomorphic tobacco jar with an estimate of €15,000-€25,000 will appeal to niche collectors of “Martinware”Sat Feb 20 2016 - 01:00
Seán FitzPatrick cartoon to be sold at auctionImage of banker in racing car by artist David Rooney is estimated to fetch up to €300Fri Feb 19 2016 - 01:00
A seller’s search for Scottish artworksConsignments sought for Bonham’s 17th annual Scottish sale in EdinburghSat Feb 13 2016 - 05:45
Cheltenham painting a racing certainty to attract lively biddingA future queen of England, Irish film stars, Sir Winston Churchill, the duchess who owned Arkle, the sheepskin brigade, and Tipperary’s best-bred are among the cast in a captivating racecourse sceneSat Feb 13 2016 - 05:45
Paul Henry landscape with a political pedigree‘A Connemara Village’ by Paul Henry, valued at up to €100,000, sold for £85 in the 1930sSat Feb 06 2016 - 01:00
Francis Bacon’s ‘Two Figures’ set for saleDespite being cut in half, the painting is expected to fetch up to £7 millionSat Feb 06 2016 - 00:00
Éamon de Valera’s prison diary to be auctionedRepublican kept journal while he was in jail in England following the 1916 RisingFri Feb 05 2016 - 01:00
Christie’s to be James Bond auction agentMemorabilia from ‘Spectre’, the third film that stars Daniel Craig as 007, will be auctioned in February and all proceeds will go to charitySat Jan 30 2016 - 01:00
Lucian Freud painting of teenage Irish lover seeks up to £10 millionThe convent schoolgirl fell for the artist, and they had two daughtersSat Jan 30 2016 - 01:00
Easter Rising memorabilia auction hit by poor demandSeán T O’Kelly’s medals among items that failed to sell at the New York eventFri Jan 29 2016 - 01:00
Cashing in on 1916 memorabiliaWhyte’s, Adams and Fonsie Mealy are holding major auctions of 1916 artefactsSat Jan 23 2016 - 01:00
1916 medal awarded to Joseph Plunkett up for auctionPosthumous award issued in 1940s by government assigned top estimate of €100,000Fri Jan 22 2016 - 12:07
‘GPO’ Proclamation to be auctioned in DublinDocument is said to have been salvaged from ruins of post office by rebels’ medical officerThu Jan 21 2016 - 01:00
Are these the keys that opened the GPO door on day of the Rising?Set of keys reputedly found in ruins of the GPO to be sold at auctionMon Jan 18 2016 - 01:00
Bacon’s brilliance bound up in a new catalogueThe book will list all of Francis Bacon’s works, including 100 previously unpublished paintingsSat Jan 16 2016 - 00:00
Book on James Barry wins Berger prizeRichly-illustrated book on murals published by Cork University PressSat Jan 09 2016 - 00:00
First auctions and sales of 2016Fine art and furniture auctions around the countrySat Jan 09 2016 - 00:00
Quinns gift €2m painting to StateLochlann and Brenda Quinn to donate Beit painting to National Gallery of IrelandSat Jan 09 2016 - 00:00
Medals awarded to Rising Volunteers to be auctioned in USDe Valera-led government honoured 1916 and War of Independence veterans in 1941Fri Jan 08 2016 - 07:20
Volunteer medals go on sale in New York auctionLarge Rising collection to be auctioned including medals awarded to Seán T O’KellyFri Jan 08 2016 - 01:00
The art market: recovery in Ireland while international boom continuesAuctioneers confidence restored as demand returnsSat Jan 02 2016 - 02:00
Margaret Thatcher’s ‘free market’ triumphs at auctionSpectacular demand for Iron Lady’s personal effects at Christie’sSat Dec 19 2015 - 07:00
Artist’s view of Shannon floodingBook published in 1880 by Henry Trench with lithographic views of watercolours by an unknown Victorian artistSat Dec 19 2015 - 01:00
