Louis le Brocquy
Louis le Brocquy is recognised by many as the greatest Irish artist of the twentieth century, and one of the greatest of any era. His painting of the heads of great literary and artistic figures such as W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, William Shakespeare, Federico Garcia Lorca and Seamus Heaney are recognized the world over as being a distinctively powerful and significant part of the canon of 20th century art.
www.louislebrocquy.com/

John Jobson
Artist John Jobson's official website
www.johnjobson.com

The Art Newspaper
An invaluable source of information about art and the art world.
www.theartnewspaper.com

Fine Art & Collectibles Directory

www.icollector.com

Art Price

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The National Gallery of Ireland
Ireland’s national collection of art from the 14th to the 20th Century
www.nationalgallery.ie

The Hugh Lane Gallery
In the heart of Dublin city, the Hugh Lane Gallery houses one of Ireland’s foremost collections of modern and contemporary art.
www.hughlane.ie

The Irish Museum of Modern Art
IMMA is Ireland's national institution for the collection and presentation of modern and contemporary art.
www.modernart.ie/en/index.htm

The Hunt Museum
The Hunt Museum, Limerick, exhibits one of Ireland's greatest private collections of art and antiquities, dating from the Neolithic to the 20th Century, including works by Renoir, Picasso and Yeats.
www.huntmuseum.com

The Crawford Municipal Art Gallery
The Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, the city art museum for Cork, has a permanent collection which comprises over 2000 works, ranging from eighteenth century Irish and European painting and sculpture, through to contemporary video installations.
www.crawfordartgallery.com

The Model Arts and Niland Gallery
The Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, is home to the impressive Niland Art Collection, which features work by Jack B. Yeats, Paul Henry, Dorothy Cross and Nick Miller among others.
www.modelart.ie/

Ireland's National Gallery
Ireland's National Gallery
www.nationalgallery.ie

The Royal Hibernian Academy
The RHA is an artist based and artist orientated institution dedicated to developing, affirming and challenging the public's appreciation and understanding of traditional and innovative approaches to the visual arts. The RHA Annual Exhibition, where over half of the work is selected from open submission, provides an unparalleled opportunity to view Ireland’s best-established and most promising future artists.
www.royalhibernianacademy.com/

Kevin Geary - Painter & Photographer
Kevin Geary, of Irish parentage, formerly of Wexford and London, now living and working in Sedona, Arizona, produces colourful abstract works as well as superbly detailed pencil or ink portraits and beautiful sepia landscape photographs
www.kevingearyart.com

The National Irish Visual Arts Library
NIVAL was formally established in 1997 with the aim of documenting all aspects of 20th century and contemporary Irish art and design and providing public access to a national research resource.
www.ncad.ie/nival/

Irish Arts Review
A most informative quarterly magazine with in-depth articles on Irish art, architecture and design along with exhibition listings and auction results.
www.irishartsreview.com/

Circa
Ireland’s leading magazine for contemporary visual arts and culture.
www.recirca.com/

IrishArt.com
The main source for information on Irish art galleries.
www.irishart.com

Ulster Museum.
Ulster’s magnificent collection of Irish art.
www.ulstermuseum.org.uk/

Ranelagh Arts Festival
A great series of events in this attractive south Dublin suburb, September 2007
www.ranelagharts.org

Stuart Morle
A contemporary painter, in traditional style, of portraits, landscape and still life, based in Dublin
www.stuartmorle.com

Gabhann Dunne
Gabhann Dunne was the winner of The Whyte's Award at the 179th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition: 26 May-25 July, 2009. This award celebrates artistic excellence by artists under the age of thirty-five and was awarded to Dunne for his work entitled, ‘California, 2009’. This work also earned Dunne the Hennessy Craig Scholarship at the same exhibition. Dunne graduated with an honours degree in Fine Art in 1997 from the Dublin Institute of Technology. Since then he has lived and worked in Amsterdam, New York, Seoul, and Granada. He is currently working and living in Dublin.
www.gabhanndunne.ie

Ciara O'Hara
Emerging Irish artist Ciara O'Hara works across a wide range of media, including print, drawing, painting, photography and porcelain. Her distinctly feminine style incorporates imagery from nature, while also including elements of nature-inspired man-made design. An honours graduate of the National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ciara has exhibited repeatedly in the RHA Annual Exhibition as well as regularly with a range of galleries in Dublin. For further information see: www.ciaraohara.com
www.ciaraohara.com

IrishArt.net
A listing of Irish artists and galleries
www.irishart.net

Highlanes Gallery.
Housed in the former Franciscan Church, Drogheda, the recently opened Highlanes Gallery displays the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection which dates from the 17th century and features many of Ireland’s leading artists including Drogheda artist Nano Reid. The gallery also hosts international and national traveling exhibitions.
www.highlanes.ie/

The ArtPrice Search Bar

PURPLE MEdia Web Ring. A page listing sites developed by PURPLE MEDIA

Collectors.com
Directory of Collectible Dealers & Auctioneers
www.collectors.com/sites/select_catg.html

Currency Converter

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Kitco
Gold, Silver, Platinum live spot prices
www.kitco.com/gold.live.html

Chester Beatty Library
Chester Beatty Library is an art museum and library which houses the great collection of manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books and some decorative arts assembled by Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968).
www.cbl.ie

The Irish Times
National daily newspaper
www.irishtimes.com

Ireland's Eye History

www.irelandseye.com/archive/

Garda Síochána History Site
A superb new site with history and background of the Irish Police Force - much of interest to collectors of police uniforms, badges, insignia etc.
www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7900/

Irish travel, arts & heritage

www.irelandlink.to

Vincent: Questioning the Method
'Vincent: Questioning the Method' is a character study of Vincent van Gogh by actor and artist Stuart Dunne. For this project, currently in production, Dunne is attempting to represent the last 70 days of van Gogh's life using an intensive style of method acting. The study is being filmed in the town of Portlaoise, Ireland, and it will provide material for: a feature-length dramatic film; a documentary about the process of artistic creation; an exhibition of painting and sculpture; and notes for a future program of study in the visual arts.The project will begin on 20th May, 2009 in and around the town of Portlaoise. The study will be documented by a film crew 24/7 for the duration, and will yield both web content and eventually a documentary feature. Vincent van Gogh arrived in Auvers-Sur-Oise on May 20th, 1890. Within 70 days, he was dead. During these last weeks, van Gogh created 89 paintings. Stuart Dunne aims to match this frenzied pace, creating at least one painting a day over the course of his 70-day immersion in character.
www.themethod.ie

County Roscommon History
This is a non-commercial site dedicated to publications, documents and ephemera about County Roscommon and Roscommon People everywhere.
www.roscommonhistory.ie

1916 Rising Medals & Memorabilia
This site shows a collection items associated with Easter Week 1916, its prelude and aftermath
www.theeasterrising.eu

STAMPA - Irish National Stamp Exhibition
The premier event for philatelists and postal historians, which takes place in October of each year, at the RDS Ballsbridge.
www.stampa.ie