- Affirm and promote the value of literature in society
- Assist writers in realisingtheir artistic ambitions
- Make it possible for people to extend and enhance their experience of literature
- Strengthen literature and other arts organisations countrywide so as to secure the basis ofa vibrant and stable literature community
- Ensure the Arts Council works effectively to support literature
Achieving these goals
We are actively seeking to work together with the literature community and others to achieve these goals. We have identified a number of priority areas that need to be addressed if we are to make progress. These are, the need for: a concerted approach to the promotion of Irish-language books; reliable information on the needs of writers in the Irish language, whether writing on a full-time or part-time basis; whether established or just starting out; and improved and wider support to writers-in-residence programmes within universities and colleges.