The Pirate Queen sets off into calm waters, under the shadow of Croagh Patrick, towards the home of Grace O'Malley. It's not O'Malley that today's group of tourists are looking for, though. Lurching about the lolling ferry in tweeds and macs is an eclectic group of academics. Dawson Street's Royal Irish Academy is venturing out to Clare Island, for a book launch.
He planned to become the best singer in the world and he succeeded. But Frank Sinatra was a man with a lot of demons. Tom Galvin looks at a new book which focuses on the darker side of Ol' Blue Eyes
Tonic is one of a new breed of Irish pubs – sleek, modern, trendy, generally full of good-looking, tanned people and most of all multi-purposed. This new species of pub is not just for drinking in, but a bit of an all-rounder.
Billy Leahy samples the emptiness of place in Maureen Gallace's second solo exhibition on the ideas of landscape and home
Billy Leahy looks at Paul Mosse's latest exhibition at the Green on Red Gallery
Billy Leahy is inspired by an exhibition at the Project whose central theme is the very lack of one
A few more weeks of school and then Maxine Jones will bundle her boys into the camper van and set off for France
Discarded tabloids and broadsheets are not only picked up by papier maché enthusiasts. Billy Leahy discovers an intriguing exhibition at the Kerlin Gallery
Maxine Jones has bought a camper van. She tells of her adventures and encounters, in it, in Ireland and abroad. Photographs by Maxine Jones
Combining found objects, magazine photographs and her own art images, Eva Rothschild's spiritually significant work makes fascinating viewing writes Billy Leahy