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The first thing to understand is that it's nothing to do with things artistic. I make no claims in that area. What I know of painting could be written on the side of a tin of Walpamur. In fact, it is. In the literary field I was long under the illusion that any book with Gide on the cover should be filed under Travel. Music goes in one ear and out the other and no one can convince me that Claire de Lune is not an opera about a mentally deranged woman called Claire.

However, I do know about

Garret FitzGerald interviewed by Vincent Browne

Magill: I remember  a conversation I had with you in 1967  at a  dinner given by Liam Cosgrave in the Gresham for Fine Gael's education policy committee in which you said that your primary objective would be, if you ever became Taoiseach, a redistribution of wealth. Is this still your objective?

I don't recall that discussion, Fine Gael policy is based on the creation of wealth to redistribute after it has been crea