‘GIVING A FART IN ITS CORDUROYS’—IRISH ATTITUDES TO MODERN ART

By Róisín Kennedy In a much-quoted letter, written in 1938, the writer Samuel Beckett expressed his ‘chronic inability to understand … a phrase like “the Irish people” or to imagine that it ever gave a fart in its corduroys for any form of art whatsoever, whether before the union or after, or that it was ... Read more

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