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"June is deeply associated with Áine, the Irish goddess of summer, fertility, love, and sovereignty, whose presence is especially felt around the midsummer season."
Every six years, Les Parapluies by Auguste Renoir is traded between Dublin and London. Why? It all dates back to 1915, and the sinking of the Lusitania.
On display at the Chester Beatty Library after years of restoration, the Tale of Oeyama scrolls offer grisly colourful paintings and delicate calligraphy.
Illustrator John Rooney loves fiddly details. That’s one of the reasons he was drawn to the tale of Maurice the Mummy. All the bandages.
Behind Renaissance painter Paolo Uccello’s “Virgin and Child”, on display at the National Gallery, is a little-known history of deception.