Irish Writers Centre Funding

Disastrous news recently that the Arts Council in Ireland have decided to scrap all funding for the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin. Literature is a major part of Ireland’s social and cultural history.  The Irish Writers’ Centre was a space that writers could call their own. It is the only centre in Dublin devoted to literature that can provide an in-house space for readings, literary events, festivals, creative writing courses, developmental works and was the home to a number of writers groups and National organisations such as the Irish Writers’ Union and the Irish Translators and Interpreters Association. With the termination of funding access to these resources will be lost, leaving the next generation of Irish authors in a vacuum and having to look elsewhere for guidance and development. 

BUT – you can help save the Irish Writers Centre by making a donation to keep the facilities alive. Just click on the centre’s website and scroll down to the “donate now” button. Thank you.