A Fair Day Get Irish Art Buzzing

When the hammer went down on Jack B Yeats painting "A Fair Day, Mayo" for one million euros this week its got the Irish Art Scene buzzing again as it became to most expensive work of art sold in Ireland.
In times of crisis people look to the arts as a sense of National pride, take this sale and  the record numbers who were out in force for the Culture Night. Irish people are again looking for a national identity that had become lost during the recession. The recession has hit Ireland hard with the risk of losing its sovereignity.
Culture in Ireland has always been an important part of society but during the boom is was watered down to make it fit into globalisation as Irish people looked outward with the roar of the Celtic Tiger.
Ireland had become culturally lost which can be echoed in the presidential race where the candidates talk about supporting culture to build up Irish confidence in itself to get back on its feet economically.

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