Kilkenny’s Butler Gallery breaks from castle basement home

New venue opens on the eastern banks of river Nore with exhibition from photographer Amelia Stein

Shooting soldiers in a handball alley: Amelia Stein’s The Bloods

Defence Forces personnel appear in all their guises in the photographer’s powerful portraits

Sasha Sykes stages blooming lovely work at Emo Court

Meanwhile, RDS Craft Awards gives €10,000 bursaries to five of Ireland’s nascent talents

RHA Annual Exhibition 2017: A big, noisy, good-natured show

Open submission process and 600 artworks guarantee good – and puzzling – surprises

The photographer who started when her father stopped

Photographer Dragana Jurisic picked up a camera after her father's entire archive was destroyed. And that's not the only mystery in her family history

Grand gestures and a forbidding landscape | Visual art round-up

Michael Coleman puts on an almost perfect show; a piece of Birmingham moves to Temple Bar; and Amelia Stein goes close to the edge

The cliffs of Erris – where the scars run deep

A show that’s a year in the life of the RHA’s members

Against the odds, the RHA is still around, with this year’s exhibition one of its best. And despite our changing tastes, portrait painting has survived the advent of the selfie

RHA Annual Exhibition 2013 Scores Highly

Behind the obvious big names, the RHA Annual shines