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No money for Irish Writers Centre

The Irish Writers’ Centre has been denied funding for 2010 by the Arts Council in a decision described by the Centre’s Board as myopic.

Until 2009, the IWC received an annual grant to enable it function as an organisation providing a venue and a service to writers and the public, but the grant was withheld last year on the basis of a value-for-money assessment.

Dublin city has lodged an application to UNESCO for a special designation as a City of Literature.

But the Arts Council has not seen fit to fund the premier Writing Centre in the Capital city, said the IWC statement.

In response, the IWC Board said: “We will not fold up our tents and go meekly away. We firmly believe that there is an absolute need for the Irish Writers’ Centre at the heart of the literary landscape, and that it should be funded. We will continue to seek funding and support from every quarter.”

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