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Arts Council announces over €47m in Strategic Funding for 2022

The Arts Council has announced its strategic funding decisions for 2022 with funding totalling €47.4million that will be distributed to 106 organisations across all parts of the country. From theatre to Irish traditional arts, from jazz to classical ...

06 Jun 2022 at 17:00

Arts & Entertainment

Kildare Youth Theatre founder appointed Artist in Residence at Maynooth University

Peter Hussey, the artist director, driving force and founder of Kildare Youth Theatre and Crooked House Theatre has added a further string to his bow with his appointment as Artist in Residence in Initial Education in Maynooth University. The ...

08 Sept 2017 at 21:46

National News

Arts Council apologises after mistakenly awarding over €3 MILLION in grants

The Arts Council of Ireland has apologised after mistakenly awarding a €25,000 grant to over 140 people. The embarrassing error was made yesterday (June 28), when letters were issued to 141 applicants informing them of their success in ...

29 Jun 2023 at 16:15

National News

Arts Council chief warns ‘pandemic habits may lead to arts losing a generation’

The director of the Arts Council has expressed concern that young people are not attending plays, art exhibitions and other cultural performances as often as before the pandemic. Maureen Kennelly said that although attendance across ...

23 Jul 2023 at 11:00

National News

Millions spent on Arts Council failed IT scheme ‘absolutely alarming’ – Tanaiste

The millions of euro spent by the Arts Council on an abandoned IT project has been described by Tanaiste Simon Harris as “absolutely alarming”. It emerged that the Arts Council had spent 6.6675 million euro on a failed IT project ...

13 Feb 2025 at 14:52

National News

Arts Council put under governance review after wasting millions on IT project

All activities of the Arts Council are to be subjected to an external review after it accrued millions of euros in losses in pursuit of an unsuccessful IT project. Arts Minister Patrick O’Donovan announced the governance review ...

12 Feb 2025 at 13:58

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Kildare-based writers selected for the Irish Writers Centre National Mentoring Programme

Two writers residing in County Kildare have been selected for the Irish Writers Centre National Mentoring Programme. Following a national call, 39 writers from across Ireland have been selected from a total of 416 applicants ...

25 Jun 2024 at 14:00

Northern Ireland

Work of artists in Belfast collective goes on display in Dublin

A new exhibition in Dublin will feature an eclectic range of work from members of a Belfast-based community arts collective. The Now That’s What I Call Vault exhibition at The Mart Gallery in Rathmines, Dublin, will show ...

19 Feb 2023 at 12:02

Arts & Entertainment

Creative Schools programme now open for applications

The Arts Council have this week announced that applications have opened for schools to apply for the Creative Schools 2022/2023 programme. Designed to provide opportunities for children and young people to build their ...

07 Apr 2022 at 12:34

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Council announces over €47m in Strategic Funding for 2022

06 Jun 2022 at 13:50

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Kill man and Planxty member Liam O'Flynn has died

The death has been announced of Kill man and member of the legendary Planxty band, Liam O’Flynn. The uilleann piper was better known to audiences as Liam óg Ó Floinn. He had been ill for some time and his ...

14 Mar 2018 at 13:46

Northern Ireland

Poet Michael Longley touched souls with just a few words, funeral hears

Acclaimed Belfast poet Michael Longley managed to touch the souls of people with just a few words, his funeral has heard. President of Ireland Michael D Higgins was among mourners who joined Longley’s ...

01 Feb 2025 at 15:42

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