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  • Chapter 20 - Contemporary Literature and Public Value

  • from Part IV - Practices, Institutions, and Audiences
  • Edited by Eric Falci, University of California, Berkeley, Paige Reynolds, College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    Irish Literature in Transition: 1980–2020
    Published online:
    28 February 2020
    Print publication:
    12 March 2020, pp 375-391

  • Summary

    Over recent decades, government policy towards the arts in Ireland has awkwardly combined a commitment to expanding arts participation and audience engagement with the support and nurturing of creative talent; or, to put this tension less benignly, a desire for visible, quantifiable ‘output’ versus the inevitably jagged creative trajectories of individuals. This essay explores the discourse and debates concerning the public value of literature, and relatedly the practice of arts funding in Ireland, from 1980 to 2020. It focuses, in particular, on the role of the Arts Council of Ireland and the influence of related initiatives such as the Ireland Chair of Poetry and the Laureate for Irish Fiction over the period. And it examines a fault line of growing significance between public support for the arts as a form of social cohesion and a championing of the artist, or artists’ potential, as a disruptive force.