Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happy image, that. So in 1969 an alarmed Charles Haughey, then Ireland's Finance Minister, set out to change it. His idea: a law that would make it profitable for talented Irishmen to stay put -and for talented foreigners to immigrate-by granting tax exemptions on income from creative work. In the eight years since Haughey steered his unique bill into law, 978 people have applied for tax relief. More than 600, including 100 foreigners, have been greatly relieved...
...wanted to say to writers, artists and other creative people that we valued their contributions, that they were important in the community," Haughey recalls. "I also felt that if we could attract important artists, they could gather around them young Irish artists and establish centers of creativity." Touring Ireland, TIME Correspondent Dean Fischer found little indication as yet of any such cultural renaissance. But Haughey's notion of a permanent tax holiday for artists has at least stopped the drain of home-grown talent...
...Donleavy Like Joyce, Donleavy, 51, has seen his work banned in Ireland for obscenity; unlike Joyce, he seems not to care. The Brooklyn-born author (The Ginger Man, The Unexpurgated Code) has assumed Irish citizenship and settled in permanently. "The tax exemption was the reason," he says. For the past five years, he and his wife M.W. (for Mary Wilson) have lived in a 25-room Queen Anne mansion set in 200 secluded acres in County Westmeath. Except for doing some outdoor work to keep fit, Donleavy avoids farm chores and writes for a steady five hours...
Edward Delaney Eight years ago, Sculptor Delaney, now 44, owed $24,000 to the Irish tax collector and was preparing to emigrate to the U.S. Then the Haughey bill was passed. Delaney stayed, and Ireland retained one of its more colorful national assets. In his roisterous youth, Delaney was famed for pub crawls with Brendan Behan and for having been expelled from Dublin's National College of Art ("Inspiration didn't automatically come to me between 9 and 5"). Today in his Dublin studio and on his stony ocean-front farm in County Galway, Delaney fashions sculptures from...
...Dogs of War) at 39 has sworn off writing. "It's a grind, a sweat," he says. A Briton, Forsyth left England in 1974 to escape having to pay an 83% tax on royalties. After a year in Spain, he and his Ulster-born wife Carrie settled in Ireland, where they bought and refurbished Kilgarron, an 18th century manor house surrounded by 25 acres of woodland in County Wicklow. When things are dull, the Forsyths go to Dublin or London, but they are usually happy to stay at home, playing tennis, clearing the land or feeding their turkeys...