Aosdána

Dutch artist drew, painted, made prints, jewellery, bronze works and pottery

Artist Maria Simonds-Gooding settled in Dunquin in the 1960s in a Blasket islander’s cottage

Calls for council to restore sound installationthat played original recordings of interviews with emigrants

Galway is struggling with capacity problems and homelessness. A new travel award will not help

President leads tributes to writer and member of Aosdána, who died aged 90

Previous holders of title include Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel and Seamus Heaney

Kinsella told taoiseach Aosdána stipend was unfair on poets as none could live entirely off their art

Artist Janet Pierce divides her time between Portugal and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre gate lodge

Eight members of Arts Council-funded body had passed away since last general assembly

‘I’m the person who should speak out ... I did what I thought was right’

Patrick Pye, religious painter and stained-glass artist, died on Thursday

College carrying €1m deficit faces criticism over paintings of president and chairman

New system will simplify procedures, promote new artists and improve feedback

The Belfast poet on his latest collection and the ‘clickety-clickety-click’ thrill of writing

Water charges refunds would pay the total annual cost of Aosdána for more than 30 years. So why is the Arts Council attacking it

Patrick Pye, a religious artist who has fading sight, deemed ineligible for stipend

To mark International Women’s Day on Wednesday, here are 30 women who are shaping Irish life

‘What could be more magnificent than a divine feathered serpent snaking along vast stretches of the wall’s 2,000-mile extent?’

Few writers could rival his versatility or claim such influence as adviser to two Taoisigh

Grafton Architects collaborated on the UTEC project with local partners to create a new campus building for Lima’s specialist engineering university