Support for arts pays rich dividends
The Arts Council has teamed up with UCD and New York University to select an outstanding Irish writer of fiction, who will encourage the public to read the best Irish fiction. The funding will also allow the writer to develop his/her work.
Novelist, Colm Toibín said it’s essential to honour the best of our writers while they are alive. There is nothing romantic about a writer starving in a garret, yet funding for the arts is considered a luxury by paperback-reading punters.
