There is a proposal in the pipeline to merge the three main State galleries in a cost cutting exercise. The three main State galleries are: The National Gallery, The Irish Museum of Modern Art (I.M.M.A.), and the Crawford Gallery, in Cork. Correspondence from the Department of Arts disclosed that as a result of the “brainstorming exercise” [...]

Ah, “them were the good old days”, back when the Guinness barges would trudge up and down the River Liffey, when you could have a game of football on Collins Avenue without being “interupted” by passing cars for up to 20 minutes, when you coal would be delivered by horse and cart with the coalman covered [...]

1. Have a Perfect Pint of Guinness Go to the Guinness Storehouse at St. James Gate, Dublin. The site of the an old fermentation plant has been transformed into the Guinness Storehouse and Museum. The tour is pretty good (a little too much marketing blasted at you for my liking) but the best part about it [...]

The Galway Arts Festival starts today. More than 150,000 visitors are expected to attend the Galway Arts Festival and are expected to spend more than €25 million at this year’s event. Considered the festival of festivals, the event will run until Sunday, July 27th. Founded in 1978, the largest arts festival in Ireland has a programme spend of [...]

A collection of etchings by Rembrandt went on display in Dublin today. The world famous etchings are expected to draw huge crowds to the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle. Along with his extensive collection of paintings, Rembrandt was not just a great painter, he was also a graphic artist of outstanding ability.  He produced approximately 290 [...]

Well, this has been a very interesting experience of building a website dedicated to irish art and developing it.  If you are thinking of going down this route (I mean any type of website) I have a little bit of advice: Hire good people. The two areas I’m talking about are: Building Your Site Building the actual website is [...]

Art lovers in Dublin were excited on Thursday night with anticipation of the unveiling of Ronnie Wood’s pieces of art at Gallery Number 1 on Castle Street, Dublin 2.Some people were disappointed that the Rolling Stone didn’t show up to unveil his “Paint it Black” series but people were really impressed with the works of [...]

As you may have heard, Ireland voted “no” to the Lisbon Treaty. It has really upset the politicians from the mainstream political parties in Ireland and members of the European parliment. All of the other European countries were expected to pass the treaty (because the parliments in each country were to vote on it rather [...]

There are two main areas in Dublin’s city centre where people come to shop for Irish gifts. One area, on the northside of the River Liffey is Henry Street and it’s surrounding streets and the other area is Grafton Street and Stephen’s Green. The two areas are quite close. It is about a ten minute [...]

Incredible scenery, challenging championship courses and legendary hospitality make Ireland one of the best places in the world for a top-quality golfing holiday. Ireland is one of the top destinations in the world for golf. Fringed on all sides by the sea and with a landscape that is spectacularly varied, this small island on the edge [...]