Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 5 Dec 2000

Vol. 527 No. 3

Written Answers. - Arts Funding.

John Perry

Question:

314 Mr. Perry asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage Gaeltacht and the Islands if she will make funding available to the Yeats Society, Sligo to purchase the early manuscript draft of the Lake Isle of Inisfree by W. B. Yeats as the poem is written in ink and has corrections and syllable counts in pencil in Yeats's hand; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the manuscripts are due to be offered for sale on 6 and 7 December 2000 and that the Lake Isle of Inisfree has direct association with Sligo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28279/00]

Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands (Miss de Valera)

I am aware that the manuscript draft of the Lake Isle of Inisfree by W. B. Yeats is to be offered for sale in early December. I regret, however, that my Department is not in a position to provide funding for the Yeats Society in respect of the purchase of the manuscript.