Promoting European culture

Madam, - Bravo to Garret FitzGerald and his European colleagues for advocating the promotion of European culture "to make a fragmented…

Madam, - Bravo to Garret FitzGerald and his European colleagues for advocating the promotion of European culture "to make a fragmented Europe whole again". Not a day goes by but the press and media are filled with politics, business and the markets with hardly a nod to what our neighbours are up to in the cultural sphere.

For too long there has been a need for a major European magazine for the arts to provoke discussion, to widen horizons, to showcase heritage, to educate, to edify, to familiarise each other with our best artistic achievements.

There is a growing sense that one Irish art form, poetry, is beginning to lose its vigour. This concept of cultural integration may be the timely injection of vigour we in Ireland need to get all our art forms fit and ready for the cultural catwalks of Europe and beyond.

The European Cultural Foundation has a low profile in this country. Its work should be more widely known. - Yours, etc.,

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