Irish firms scoop prizes in Architecture Master Prize awards in Bilbao, Spain

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A new exhibition at Dublin’s Science Gallery delves into our fear of flaws

Quick sketch is ‘closest we get of a snapshot of Leonardo during his own lifetime’

Five hundred years after his death, the original Renaissance Man's creative brilliance is still astonishing

Competition to celebrate museum’s 30th birthday offers couple an overnight stay

Banksy act of art destruction has said something that needed to be said: art is being choked to death by money

Many Irish tourist spots charge more than more famous global counterparts

The Ulysses Centre aspires to reveal Joyce in a more innovative way

The thrilling history of ‘Salvator Mundi – the Holy Grail of Old Master paintings’

And in Tableau, Eithne Jordan shows why she needs to paint

Sketch may have been preparatory work of Leonardo da Vinci before Mona Lisa

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Manchester attack will be only topic of conversation among classmates at school today

Published: September 19th, 1986. Photograph by Paddy Whelan

Designers of the so-called ‘pencil towers’ should take a leaf out of Da Vinci’s book

Renaissance man meets Renaissance woman

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