No taoiseach has done more for the arts than Charles Haughey, writes Justine McCarthy, via IrishTimesOpEd
, amazement was expressed in international media that Ireland had gone into mourning for a poet.
You might argue that our artists would have thrived even if had Haughey never reigned. The history was already rich. Language and self-expression had long been a political issue in this country. As Brian Friel remarked in his play, Translations, our language is “full of the mythologies of fantasy and hope and self-deception – a syntax opulent with tomorrows. It is our response to mud cabins and a diet of potatoes”.
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