A €25m pilot scheme is particularly heartening after the hardships and losses of earnings imposed on all art forms by the venue closures and capacity restrictions
Minister for Culture Catherine Martin has indicated that up to 2,000 artists could benefit from what she called a ‘once in a generation policy intervention’. Photograph: Alan Betson
This year marked the anniversaries of two significant developments in the State’s commitment to the arts: the establishment of the Arts Council in 1951 and of Aosdána in 1981. While both anniversaries passed by without any fanfare due to Covid restrictions, a new and potentially […]
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