This book, comprised of interviews with Irish individuals significant in the world of Irish art between 1960 and 2000, is an oral history of the visual arts in late twentieth-century Ireland. The interviewees - writers, administrators, curators, politicians and collectors - range from C.J. Haughey to Michael D. Higgins, the first Minister for Arts and Culture in Ireland. These penetrating interviews offer a fascinating combination of serious insight and anecdote valuable to both specialist and general readers.