CULTURE..
Give Us The Night
Words by Tom Jordan Collage by Aoife Donnellan
A
pattern of implicit bias to be allowed to stay open past state body. Give Us The Night against specific types of 12.30am. These licensing laws has been in contact with the
cultural output is emerging in are outdated and have inspired Arts Council and have told Dublin, leaving local inhabitants heated debate regarding the MISC. that while the council without a healthy and vibrant economics and moral politics of agrees in principle with their nightlife. Give Us the Night is the laws. a campaign launched in 2019
endeavours,
they
implied
The Arts Council was that as they are a government
in an effort to effect positive established under the Arts Act agency it would not be feasible change to nightlife in Ireland. 2003 in order to promote the to The campaign is specifically knowledge,
appreciation
publicly
endorse
the
and campaign.
looking for a complete overhaul practice of the arts in Ireland, of the Special Exemption Orders among other things. Like the act on
The lack of value placed the
cultural
potential
system. This system currently under which it was established, of nightlife and the culture enforced in Ireland results in the Arts Council should not associated with it can be seen premises having to apply weekly discriminate based on thematic, in the diminishing venues in for a “special exemption order� aesthetic
or
philosophical Dublin. Earlier in the year the
from the District Court in order frameworks as an independent Tivoli theatre, home to District
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