The film star’s roots prompted her to collect Irish literature, including rare editions of Joyce, Beckett and Shaw. The 9,000 volumes are now housed in a lovely, and free, library in the principality.
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National Portrait Gallery acquires Wellington painting after £1.3m plea
NPG raises funds to buy Sir Thomas Lawrence’s unfinished Duke of Wellington portrait to plug 161-year gap in its collection
V&A to open new galleries for photos acquired from Bradford museum
Museum’s expansion was prompted by controversial procurement of famous Royal Photographic Society collection
Queen’s collection of gifts amassed during reign to go on show
Buckingham Palace exhibition will display eclectic collection received by monarch from over 100 countries
The world’s greatest fruit stickers – in pictures
Designer Kelly Angood has an obsession with the stickers peeled off fruit – and has created a calendar to attach your own discoveries each day
From Belém to a new Brasília: Brazil’s cities in the 1950s – in pictures
As a young man, Marcel Gautherot abandoned his architecture studies in Paris to travel the world as a photographer. He became best known for his documentation of the construction of Brazil’s new capital city, Brasília, which can be found in a collection of his work, The Monograph
