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Poetry, Money, and the Public : Subsidy and Accountability in Northern Irish Literature

eng

09111247

https://doi.org/10.15002/00007846

24

81

97

2010-03

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This paper considers the relationship between Northern Irish literature, especially poetry, and its public funding, focusing on two periods of time; before 1971 and after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. The official regular support for literature via the Arts Council of Northern Ireland began in fiscal year 1970. As the arts subsidy has developed, there has been greater demand for accountability for the use of public money in art, corresponding with the emergence and spread of the logic that measures the value of art in economic terms. This paper discusses how writers have articulated the relationship between literature and society through an analysis of their accounts explaining the need for subsidy, and for subsidised literary activities involving the public, such as poetry reading tours and community arts activities.

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