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Revising French – Frank McNally on one of Ireland’s greatest songwriters, who died 100 years ago next week

Lankum: The Livelong Day review – A fierce and fragile masterpiece

Lankum march to the beat of their own tune too: in all its anarchic glory

Auctions, results and fairs

Banksy and Andy Warhol works are among the pieces on sale in the coming weeks

Reborn in a barn: New ideas for old farm buildings

Cowsheds, stables and other outhouses get a new lease of life in these barn conversions

The wild artistic way: Connemara paintings seen in NY, London ahead of April sale

This small outcrop on the edge of Europe, with its reefs, promontories and blankets of bog is steeped in artistic history

Forthcoming auctions: lots include Yeats typescript and African artefacts

Bonhams in London to auction signed draft of The Words upon the Window Pane

Things That Make the Heart Beat Faster by João Morais: A bit of a muddle

A debut collection of stories about young people starts well but finally fails to convince

Moving scenes – Some random reflections on Orwell, Hemingway, and Percy French

Frank McNally: An Irishman’s Diary

Brown trout and cross-country and other soft spots for Roscommon

County’s footballers looking forward to throwing down the gauntlet to Galway again

Art you can try before you buy, virtually speaking

A new app allows prospective buyers to visualise paintings on their own walls

The emigrant songs sung by the Irish men who built Britain

Homesickness is set against the gritty background of labouring life in 1960s London

Father’s Day: My father before he was a dad

Malachy Clerkin, Amy Huberman, Una Mullally and more on their fathers as young men

Northern Irish couple must take security camera off Chelsea house

A camera and light stuck to a mansion in London did not have planning permission

Westport House sold to Co Mayo hotelier

Historic property offered for €10m after Browne family got into financial difficulty

What is happening to Ireland’s old phone boxes?

The last ever callcard produced in the country was in 2003

Local History: History and art merge in life and works of Percy French

Round-up review: Tones That Are Tender by Berrie O’Neill, Ring of Kerry: The Postcard Collection by Kieran McCarthy, and Well, Here I Am in Ballycotton by Peter O’Shea

Canal-side Georgian on Mespil

Four-bed terrace with original features for €1.475m

End of an era for Westport House

Historic Mayo property on sale after a long battle by Browne family to retain ownership

National Eucharistic Congress at Knock next weekend will provide spiritual refreshment

Will also prepare pilgrims for the International Congress in the Philippines next year

BLIS: Where imagination meets engineering

Subtitling software BLIS shows how college blends art and science

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