Art

The scale of the Great Irish Famine, and the horror of it, were unprecedented. It permeated everything, the traces of which remain to this day. But the visual dimensions of the loss of life and the erosions of language and culture remained unaddressed until Quinnipiac University opened Ireland's Great Hunger Museum in 2012, to considerable acclaim.

The Irish Times literary editor Fintan O'Toole selects 100 artworks to narrate a history of Ireland.

A beautiful collection of paintings depicting women of elegance and style who have inspired artists throughout history.

The book presents an unfamiliar side of Sean Scully: a series of large-scale figurative paintings, material from his private archive, and essays on his new painterly freedom.

Micheal O Gaoithin was born 3 January 1904 on the Great Blasket island, one of the six surviving children of renowned storyteller Peig Sayers and her husband, Padraig 'Flint' O Guithin. This book presents a selection of 55 out of O Gaoithin's paintings and drawings from his collection of 200.