Sotheby’s €3.4m sale sets new records for Irish artists

Jack B Yeats paintings also perform well; 34 of his works are set to make auction debut

Magic carpet result in London, Cartier gems in Clontarf

Ming vase fetched €610,000 at Sheppard’s sale – almost €500,000 over estimate

Chinese box sells for ten times estimate in busy auction week

Recent results and forthcoming auctions and fairs

Rare Irish silver, gold teeth and Jack B Yeats paintings: November auction rooms

Results and forthcoming auctions and fairs

Swanzy’s cubist art, birds of prey and antlers: what sold in the auction rooms

Results and forthcoming auctions and fairs

Rare U2 Dublin concert footage revealed

Footage of secret concert on community centre roof in Sheriff Street in 1982 emerges

State Papers: Repatriation of Phoenix Park equestrian statue not permitted

Gough statue had been repeatedly attacked and ultimately bombed off plinth by IRA

The Irish soldier worshipped as an Indian god

Feared and adored, John Nicholson became a hero of the British Empire, and inspired a cult

Hot prices for Irish art in summer sales

Big-hitters like Yeats, Henry and Osborne now fetching prices well above pre-sale estimates

Monument men – An Irishman’s Diary on the Earl of Carlisle, Goldsmith and Burke

Prince Albert statue to stay on grounds of Leinster House

Petitions Committee said petition seeking its removal was inadmissible

Why doesn’t the Terry Wogan statue work? Because he’s a celeb

The Terry Wogan statue in Limerick is a case of a good artist producing bad art

The Times We Lived In: Goldsmith given a spruce-up at gates of Trinity

Published: August 2nd, 1978 Photograph: Tom Lawlor

Collectors spend €1.4m

Unpublished Oscar Wilde photo snapped up for €7,000 at Adam’s art auction in Slane