The document discusses several topics related to arts funding and support in Ireland, including: 1) One member of an Arts Council declined to support a project because it was located too far away from other galleries they supported in Dublin. 2) The arts community in Ireland feels a sense of "peripheral status" and fears how discretionary state funding decisions may impact them. 3) There is an ongoing debate around the role of the state in facilitating the arts through a paternalistic system versus a more democratic model that embraces controversy.

1. 'One member of the Arts Council was asked by a journalist why they didn't support or buy from the Project, he replied that it was because it was too far away. The other two galleries were in St Stephen's green. Project was in Abbey Street. Geographically, psychologically and politically out of mind‘ (Ó Briain, 2000). Brenda O' Reilly

3. The thing is, when you’re in an Arts Council, The arts community chucks things at you. The government chucks things at you. The public chucks things at you – and the newspapers chuck everything at you. You’re in a kind of no-man’s-land where people just chuck things at you.” Wednesday, April 29, 2009 No time for faint arts source Irish Times

5. The arts suffer from their own sense of peripheral status within the State agenda, fearing the meaning/outcomes of the State discretionary spend. The system of funding for Ireland paternalistic; the more demonstratively productive areas such as sport and tourism gain greater public awareness, perhaps because they are more readily read as commodity by State and corporate funders.

8. Inclusion, entertainment, service provision, education, employment and performative cultural capital regional identity Competitiveness, creative industries, tourism, performance of......

9. Frayling says. “They’re increasingly important to the creative industries – that sector of the economy that depends on creativity and innovation. I’ve just come back from mainland China, where they’re currently building 1,300 art and design schools. They know that when the world economy turns around, creativity is going to be one of the things that will give them the edge. They’re fed up with manufacturing everyone else’s stuff – they want to create their own. So they’ve got the message.” Wednesday, April 29, 2009

15. The anxiety and pressure within the arts world emerges with the growing requirement to substantiate its exploits/achievements. It seems an increasingly supportive State apparatus compounds the hegemonic power dynamic, which emerges then paradoxically to both support and stymie; the ultimate paternalism. The ideal of perceived autonomy for the practitioner liquidates into the reified spheres of arts and culture. The managerial and administrative systems develop in a highly professionalized manner, then becoming central/primary and thus exclusionary.

16. These structuring processes, what Bourdieu calls "circuits of legitimisation," systems of sponsorship, evaluation, and consecration by means of which power euphemises itself as merit (as intrinsic and proper rather than imposed and arbitrary) and thereby secures its symbolic efficacy. [1]

21. Self generated?

24. Citizen audience

29. cultural capital, national identity and its hegemonic power form pervasive ideologies which frequently have schismatic impacts and stratify the scope of the culture industries.

32. Culture is always something that was, Something pedants can measure, Skull of bard, thigh of chief, Depth of dried-up river. Shall we be thus forever? Shall we be thus forever? PATRICK KAVANAGH

33. PATRONAGE UNDER FIRE: 1967-73 A group thus passes from the scene Whose likes again shall not be seen For casual heroic waste Of public money on private taste Complacence, arrogance, self-contentment, Begrudgery and pure resentment, We raise a cheer as it departs, The Inquisition of the Arts. MICHAEL KANE

34. Liberals and libertarians must confront the unpalatable thought that oppressive [political] power flourishes by enlisting our impulse to freedom rather than by brutally extinguishing it Terry Eagleton LRB 30 april 09

36. Partnership for the Arts ?