art
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Restitution and Repatriation – the advisory committee report
I recently wrote a piece for the Institute of Art and Law about the recent report from the advisory committee. it can be accessed here along with many of their excellent pieces. i have also reposted it below. Ireland’s New Framework for Restitution and Repatriation: The Advisory Committee’s Report Ireland has never had a formal…
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The Sir Hugh Lane Bequest and the Importance of Wills
The Hugh Lane Gallery is currently closed for refurbishment. It is an excellent gallery, and I thought it would be a good time to look at the issues surrounding Sir Hugh Lane’s will. The consequences of Lane neglecting (whether mistakenly or not) to have a codicil to his will witnessed, turned out to be huge.…
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ARTISTS’ TAX EXEMPTION
Irish tax law allows artists and writers to apply for income tax exemptions on earnings from certain creative works.
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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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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…
