David Britton of Adam's said the exhibition, first shown at the Galway City Museum last year, was the most important exhibition of Lamb's work in Ireland since a retrospective five years after the artist's death in 1969 at Dublin's Hugh Lane Gallery. ...

His atelier there – in which he lives as well as works – is a modestly specified, functional space on a small courtyard. He runs a very tidy, organised studio. Those expecting something like the romantic squalor of the Francis Bacon studio in the Hugh...

League of Decency leader JB Murray wrote to the council objecting to payment of a £4,000 grant to the Project Arts Centre in 1975, because of a “vulgar” and “obscene” revue, O’Byrne called on councillors not to “enter into this nonsense”. Also in 1975,...

Op. 20 Trio is not often performed here; the two works by Irish composers practically never. So before even sounding a single note, these three players – violinist Anne Harte, cellist Niall O’Loughlin, and pianist Pádhraic Ó Cuinneagáin – had already...

It falls to the National Chamber Choir under David Brophy to round off the year – the second of their Christmas Tidings programmes at the Hugh Lane Gallery today seems set to be the last classical event of 2011. The musical bearers of the tidings hail...

(The Art Newspaper, December 2011, pp.1,8,9), are due to be discussed during “The Challenges of Authenticity: Francis Bacon, A Case Study” on 25 January. Key people involved with the sketches have been invited, including Ravarino, along with leading...