Grants awarded in
June 2010
PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT
Lords of Strut
performing “Performance - Performance” in Paderborn, Germany from the
6th - 8th September 2010
€500
theatre
Tumble Circus
performing “UpAbove” at Fira Tarrega Festival, Spain from the 11th - 12th
September 2010€3,000
Fidget Feet
performing “Hang On” at Al Carrer Theatre, Fira Tarrega Festival, Spain from the
11th - 12th September 2010
€4,500
Jocelyn Clarke
the presentation of the premiere of his new work “Gargantua” at the Archa Theatre,
Prague from the 15th - 24th September 2010
€750
Geraldine Aron
for readings of her play “My Brilliant Divorce” at the Guild Hall Theatre, Hampton,
New York, August - September 2010
€1,000
Clowns Without Borders Ireland
performing in Camps for Internally Displaced People, Uganda,
October - November 2010€7,500
Focus Theatre
presenting “I am of Ireland” by Edward Callan at the Arcola Theatre, London from
the 11th April - 30th April 2011
€7,500
Green Shoot Productions
presenting “Chronicles of Long Kesh” at the Ten Days on the Island Festival,
Tasmania from the 31st March 3rd April and at the Castlemaine Festival, Victoria,
Australia from the 5th - 10th April 2011
€20,000
Gare St Lazare Players Ireland
presenting “The Beckett Trilogy” at the Melbourne Arts Festival 2010 and other
venues in Victoria from the 11th - 24th October 2010
€7,500
The Studio Theatre
presenting “The Walworth Farce” and “The New Electric Ballroom” at the Studio
Theatre, Washington DC, USA from the 16th March - 1st May 2011
€10,000
Druid Theatre Company
presenting “Penelope” by Enda Walsh at St Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, New York,
26th Oct - 14 Nov, 2010
€48,000
Druid Theatre Company
presenting “Penelope” by Enda Walsh at the Hampstead Theatre, London from the
7th February - 12th March 2011 and at the Studio Theatre, Washington DC, USA
from the 15th March - 3rd April 2010
€85,000
film
dance
TOTAL €195,250
PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT
Dance Theatre of Ireland Ltd.
performing “Block Party” Fira Tarrega Festival, Spain from the 9th - 12th
September 2010€12,000
TOTAL €12,000
PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT
Presentation of Irish film at the Irish Short Film Festival in Ukraine
from the 26th August - 14th September 2010
€900
film
PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT
Cork Film Festival
organising the Irish Short Film Season as part of the Liverpool Irish Festival 2010
at Fact - Foundation for Art and Creative Technologies, Liverpool from the
15th - 31st October 2010
€2,000
Jimmy T Murakami
presenting own short animated films and documentary feature at the International
Animation Film Festival Hiroshima, Japan from the 6th - 12th August 2010
€1,500
University of Sao Paulo and Federal University of Parana in Curitiba, Brazil
presenting a retrospective of John T Davis films from the 26th
August - 1st September 2010
€2,000
Gary Hoctor
presenting “Watching & Waiting” at the Melbourne International Film Festival,
August 2010€3,000
San Francisco Irish Film Festival, USA
showcasing Irish films, from the 9th - 12th September 2010
€3,000
The Norwegian International Film Festival
presenting Irish films through “Irish Sidebar”, a series of Irish films at the 38th
Norwegian International Film Festival, Norway from the 21st - 26th August 2010
€3,000
TOTAL €15,400
PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT
Shamrock Traditional Irish Music Society
presenting Liz & Yvonne Kane and Edel Fox a concert at the House, Fairfield on the
30th July and John Hoban performing a concert at Tressler’s Barn, Easton USA on
the 11th September 2010€500
Ann Cleare
participation in the Gaudeamus week 2010 organised by the Netherlands Music
Centre, Amsterdam from the 6th - 12th September 2010
€600
music
Micheal O’Rourke
performing Chopin at the Chopiniana Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the
13th October 2010€1,000
Fionnuala Moynihan
presenting and performing a lecture-recital and a solo piano recital at the
University of Warsaw, Poland from the 16th - 18th November 2010
€800
Blue Wings
presenting Irish musicians including Slide at 6th Picnic Festival and International
Bluegrass & Celtic Festival, Namur, Belgium from the 3rd - 5th September 2010
€1,000
The Philadelphia Ceili Group
presenting Irish musicians at the 36th Annual Irish Traditional Music and Dance
Festival at the Commodore Barry Club, Philadelphia from the 9th - 12th
September 2010€1,500
Galway Baroque Singers
performing concerts at the Irish College, Rome and Basilica di San Clemente,
Rome from the 23rd - 24th October 2010
€2,000
Irish Cultural Centre Hammersmith London
presenting a series of Irish music concerts, from the 13th September - 27th
November 2010€2,300
Finbarr Doherty, Kate O’Callaghan and Seamus Devenny
performing at the Irish Immigration Centre, Boston from the 20th - 23rd
September 2010€1,500
Finnish-Irish Society
presenting Irish musicians at the 25th Irish Festival in Finland from the 24th
September - 3rd October 2010
€4,000
Cullen Pipe Band
performing at the Piping Live Festival, Glasgow, Scotland from the 9th - 15th
August 2010€1,000
music
PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT
Oireachtas na Gaeilge
presenting Irish musicians and dancers at the Milwaukee Irish Festival from the
19th - 22nd August 2010
€1,000
Grada
performing concerts in Italy and Slovenia from the 31st July - 7th August 2010
€3,000
Burghof Kultur-und Veranstaltungs Gmbh
presenting Irish musicians in “Celtic Road” a concert of celtic song and music at the
Augusta Raurica, Basel, Switzerland from the 6th - 7th August 2010
€5,000
Magnetic Music GmbH
presenting Mat Walklate, Matt Fahey, Tom O’Donovan, Ian Smith, Niamh Ní Charra
band and the McDades at venues in Switzerland and Germany from the 20th
October - 15th November 2010
€6,000
Irish artists
including Beoga and Altan concert, Pat Collins presenting a Lecture, a production
of “Tom Crean Antarctic Explorer” and Harry Cliften performing readings of his
poetry as part of the Irish Festival of Oulu, Finland from 30th September – 3rd
October 2010€10,000
Lunasa
performing a concert tour of the US and Canada between 16th September - 11th
October 2010€3,000
Camerata Ireland
performing a tour of the US, March 2011
€75,000
Size2shoes
performing at Newfoundland & Labrador Folk Festival, Canada from the 6th - 8th
August 2010€1,500
TOTAL €120,700
PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT
Myk Henry
presenting “Outside in” at the 11th Open Performance Art Festival, Beijing from the
6th - 12th September 2010
€1,000
Stacia Blake
presenting “The Open Mind of Lafcadio Hearn (Homage to Lafcadio Hearn)”, an
exhibition at the Matsue Castle, Japan, from the 10th October - 14th November 2010 €1,000
visual arts
Debra Bowden
presenting “The Open Mind of Lafcadio Hearn”, a group exhibition
of Irish and Japanese artists at Matsue Castle, Japan from the 10th October - 14th
November 2010€1,000
Barbara Knezevic presenting “In pursuit of a state of uncertainty”, a solo exhibition
at the Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, Australia from the 8th - 26th September 2010
€1,500
Maurice Gunning
presenting “Encuentro - The Gathering”, a photographic exhibition at Centro
Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina from the 4th - 25th September 2010
€2,000
Declan Rooney
presenting “Gimme Some Action”, a solo exhibition at the Marina Abramovic
Institute, San Francisco from the 20th September - 22nd October 2010
€1,500
Robert O’Connor
presenting a solo exhibition at Karas Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia in November 2010
€2,000
Denis Buckley
performance of “Brightness” at the Brisbane Festival’s Under the Radar, Australia
from the 13th - 16th September 2010
€1,200
Presenting “Never the Same River”
an exhibition of work by Sean Lynch curated by Simon Starling and to introduce
work at a patrons event at the Camden Arts Centre from the 4th December - 20th
February 2011€3,000
Enda O’Donoghue presenting a solo exhibition at the Galerie Hunchentoot, Berlin
from the 10th September - 16th October 2010
€700
visual art
PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT
George Higgs
presenting a musical/art installation at the Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich,
USA from October 2010 - March 2011
€5,000
Bouncecube
presenting “Maximum Baggage Allowance”, an exhibition by Alison Carey,
Benjamin Gaulon and Ivan Twohig at Entrée Gallery, Bergen, Norway from the
29th August - 31st September 2010
€2,500
Katie Holten
presenting her work “Rehab: Der Grune Punkt”, in Foundation EDF in Paris from
21st October 2010 - 13th February 2011 and as part of “NY/ Prague 6” a group
exhibition from the 2nd September – 31st October 2010 in Futura Contemporary
for Art, Prague and in Czech Centre, New York, Autumn 2010 - Spring 2011
€4,000
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
presenting John Gerrard’s “Sow farm” as part of the Galleries 50th anniversary
programme, from the 30th July - 14th November 2010
€3,000
Bartosz Nowak
presenting “Art = Adding”, an initiative of Terminal08 an international group
exhibition in Gorzów, Poland from the 13th - 16th September 2010
€6,000
John Fitzgerald
presenting “The artist and the island”, a group exhibition to coinside with the 7th
biennial conference of the Nordic Irish Studies Network at the University of Tromso,
Norway from the 2nd - 19th December 2010
€5,000
Mother’s Tankstation
presenting Atsushi Kaga at FIAC International Contemporary Art Fair, Grand Palais,
Paris, France from the 17th - 26th October 2010
€7,500
Eilis O’Connell
presenting work as part of “Crucible” a group exhibition of modern and
contemporary sculpture at Gloucester Cathedral, UK from the 3rd September - 31st
October 2010€7,500
Stephen Lawlor, Michael Cullen and Brian McAvera
presenting a group exhibition titled “South to North” at Konstforum, Sweden from
the 27th November - 12th December 2010
€4,500
Sarah Iremonger, Marianne Keating and Harry Moore
presenting an exhibition of their work entitled Tears, Trash & Decay at the Yarra
Sculpture Space, Victoria, Australia from the 4th - 15th August 2010
€6,000
Gallery of Photography
showcasing six leading Irish photographic artists at the Berlin Month of Photography
from October - November 2010
€4,000
Florence Ostende, Maison Populaire
presenting “The Farrell Family” a group exhibition at La Maison Populaire montreuil
28th September – 17th December and Mains d’Oeuvres, Saint – Ouen, Paris, France
from the 3rd September - 17th December 2010
€750
Treasa O’Brien
presenting films of Vivienne Dick “Everything is Invented, Nothing is invented”, at
the Tate Modern, London from the 16th - 20th September and Light Industry, New
York from the 15th - 21st November 2010
€8,000
Dr.Fran Lloyd
presenting elements of Aine Phillips’ “The Art of Intervention”, live performances and
an exhibition at Kyoto Seika University, the Kyoto Art Center and at the Live Art Event,
Tokyo from the 17th September - 17th October 2010
€4,000
literature
TOTAL €82,650
PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT
Gabriel Rosenstock
reading at the Struga International Poetry Festival, Macedonia from the 18th - 23rd
August 2010€500
literature
PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT
Iggy McGovern
reading at the Christchurch Writers Festival, New Zealand from the 8th - 17th
September 2010€1,000
Slovene Writers’ Association, Marcella Morgan’s
participation in the Vilenica International Literary Festival, Slovenia from the
1st - 5th September 2010
€800
Catherine Dunne, Camchuairt na mBan (Ivy Bannister, Mary Rose Callaghan,
Catherine Dunne, Celia de Friene and Lia Mills)
presenting readings at the University of Toronto, Irish Embassy Ottawa and
Concordia University from the 11th - 20th October 2010
€4,000
Irish Arts Center
organising Poetry Fest 2010 at the Irish Arts Center, New York from the 5th - 6th
November 2010€6,000
TOTAL €12,300