So is this a valedictory conversation we’re having, I ask Arts Council chair Sheila Pratschke as we sit down with coffee and biscuits in the council’s elegant Georgian headquarters on Merrion Square. The Arts Council during her term has rarely been far from controversy. Wade into the fraySuch financial questions ultimately hinge on how much the council itself receives each year from the arts minister of the day. It seemed clear the council perceived CI at that time as a real threat to the principle of arms-length State funding of arts and culture in Ireland. “Some people have said that [Creative Ireland] poses an existential threat to the Arts Council.

Source: The Irish Times April 19, 2018 04:52 UTC