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JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S BOTCHED BURSARIES


Josepha Madigan

Josepha Madigan


FANS OF The Phoenix will not have been surprised to hear about the sudden brake applied to the €20,000-a-pop “Markievicz bursaries” announced last November by Minister for Culture Josepha Madigan and aimed exclusively at women artists. As Goldhawk noted, “it is hard to see how such a scheme got the green light” (see The Phoenix,... Read more »

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