ArtLawIreland
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25 Years of The Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art
25 countries have so far endorsed these best practices, and Ireland is one of them. It is very difficult to find any information about Ireland’s participation in the Washington Conference in 1998 and it appears that we did not attend. There is no delegate statement from Ireland in the published material. The National Gallery of…
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The Royal Hibernian Academy (Amendment of Charter) Act 2023
The 194th Annual RHA Exhibition opens this Monday the 20th May. It is always a wonderful show, which squeezes in a huge amount of painting, sculpture, print, architectural design, and more. I would recommend that everyone visits during its two-and-a-bit month run. Without much fanfare, the RHA amended its charter LATE LAST year for the…
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Rose Dugdale and the Russborough Art-Theft
Rose Dugdale passed away on the 18th March in Dublin, just days before the release of the film ‘Baltimore’, in which her character, the protagonist, is played by Imogen Poots.[i] Rose Dugdale, having been born into a wealthy, British family, and educated at Oxford, went on to join the IRA and, among other crimes, famously…
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Moral Rights and why you can’t simply paint a sculpture a different colour
This article popped up in January in the Irish Examiner and I thought it brought up some interesting points about moral rights. A sculpture by the late artist John Burke, which had been commissioned in 2005 and has stood on the grounds of Cork University Hospital in its original hues of yellow ever since, was…
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The New Historic and Archaelogical Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023
Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 This new Act has consolidated a whole host of previous legislation that related to National Monuments, buried treasure, maritime wrecks, and cultural heritage. It also includes various aspects relating to international treaties such as the UNESCO Convention on Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import,…
