Harnessing the talent of artists with disabilities

Providing everyone with equal access to the arts isn’t some token aspiration; it’s a basic right, Evelyn Grant tells Ellie O’Byrne

The 1916 Proclamation stated a commitment to cherish “all of the children of the nation equally and oblivious of the differences which have divided a minority from the majority in the past”.

In many ways, cultural events marking the centenary have become an opportunity to examine the successes and failures of Irish society in this regard.