Grants awarded in December 2009

THEATRE

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Lords of Strut performing at the Leper Festival, Belgium from the 3rd - 4th April and Buitenkans Festival, Netherlands from the 8th - 9th May 2010	500
Manus Lunny for a live musical theatre piece "Finn" at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York from the 4th - 5th March 2010	1000
Aindrias Stack performing "Summer I did my Leaving" and "Journey of a Travelling Fiddle Player" at the Adelaide Fringe Festival from the 29th February - 15th March and the National Folk Festival, Canberra from the 9th - 13th April	2000
Green Shoot Productions presenting "Chronicles of Long Kesh" at Tricycle Theatre, London, Dancehouse Theatre, Manchester, Everyman Theatre, Liverpool and Tron Theatre, Glasgow from March - May 2010	15000
Nomad Theatre Network presenting “The Dead School” at the Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn, London from the 22nd February - 12th March 2010	36000
Guna Nua Theatre Company presenting "Little Gem" at the Bush Theatre, London in April - May 2010	26000
Cork Midsummer Festival presenting FML a documentary theatre piece at the Riverside Studios, London, National Theatre of Scotland, Ghent Summer Arts Festival, Noorderzen Festival, Ghent, Belgium and Helsinki Theatre Festival, Finland from the 15th July - 28th August 2010.	60000
Cork Midsummer Festival co producing the Air India Opera project to be presented in Vancouver, Canada in 2012.	65000
Barnstorm Theatre Company performing "Boy with a Suitcase" and "Jack" at the Agor Drysau - Opening Doors biennial international theatre festival in Aberystwyth, Wales in March 2010	4500
Total	210000

DANCE

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Angeliki Smalis performing a solo dance piece at the International Dance Festival "ABUNDANCE" in Karlstad, Sweden from the 15th - 17th June 2010	500
Liadain Herriott presenting "Two" at the Smriti Nandan Cultural Center, Bangalore, India	500
Colin Dunne performing "Out of Time" at Festival Antipodes, Brittany 4 - 6 March and at a number of venues in Northern France from the 4th - 25th April 2010	5000
Dance Theatre of Ireland performing "Block Party" at the Busan International Dance Festival, Korea from the 3rd - 8th June and at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, UK from the 7th – 22nd May 2010.	38000
Total	44000

FILM

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Duncan Campbell presenting "Bernadette" at the Ambulante Documentary Film Festival, Mexico from the 6th - 10th March 2010	1000
Moira Tierney presenting work at the 11eme Festival National du Film, Morocco from the 23rd - 30th January 2010 and at 25th anniversary of Spazio Arka, Sardinia	1000
The Gene Siskel Film Centre organising the European Union Film Festival at the Gene Siskel Film Center Chicago, Illinois, U.S.from 1st - 30th March 2010	2000
IndieLisboa Film Festival, Lisbon presenting Irish films and film artists from the 22nd April - 2nd May 2010	5000
Triskel Arts Centre presenting six Irish short story writers at the 11th International Short Story Conference, Toronto from the 16th - 19th June 2010	8000
Fleadh Foundation organising the Craic Festival at the Mercury Lounge and Tribeca cinema, New York from the 10th - 14th March 2010	12000
Johnny O'Reilly/ Gerard Michael McCarthy organising the 3rd Irish Film Festival, Moscow, Russia from the 18th - 21st March 2010	10000
Boston Irish Film Festival organising the 11th Annual Boston Irish Film Festival at the Brattle Theatre and The Somerville Theatre from the 25th - 28th March 2010	4000
Roots Reel Films organising the 2nd Irish Film Festival, South Africa in Johannesburg, Cape Town from the 17th - 31st March 2010	6000
Total	49000

MUSIC

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Paul Dooley performing at the 29th Edinburgh International Harp Festival from the 9th - 14th April 2010	500
Ronan Guilfoyle performing at the 10th South African Association for Jazz Education in Cape Town, South Africa, from the 29th - 31st March 2010	1000
Karan Casey, John Doyle and Sliabh Notes performing concerts at Fairfield Theatre and Newtown Meeting House, Connecticut, on the 12th February and 4th March 2010	500
Niamh Ní Charra performing at the 1st Celtic Music Festival, Havana, Cuba from the 13th - 14th April 2010	900
Líadan performing at the International Kulturborse Freiburg trade fair for the performing arts, Germany on the 26th January 2010	1500
Irish musicians performing in "The Irish Weeks in Artois-Gohelle" festival, Pas de Calais region, France from the 12th - 27th March and the 26th June 2010	1000
Hugh Tinney performing five solo piano concerts at the Camerata Pacifica Festival in Santa Barbara, Ventura, San Marino and Los Angeles, USA from the 12th - 18th March 2010	1500
Tyneside Irish Cultural Society presenting monthly traditional Irish concerts at the Tyneside Irish Centre, Newcastle, UK, from 11th February - 13th May 2010	1000
Irish Arts Foundation presenting Irish musicians as part of Irish History Month Leeds in March 2010	1000
Philip Martin performing recitals in Mural Diego Rivera Museum, UNAM and Palacio Belles Artes in Mexico City, and Nuevo Leon Cultural Institute in Monterrey, Mexico from the 19th - 22nd March 2009	2000
The Begley family performing at the 1st Celtic Music Festival, Havana, Cuba from the 5th - 12th April 2010	3600
Linda Buckley, Brian Bridges and Paul Harrigan performing concerts in Beijing, Hong Kong and Shenyang, China from the 13th - 22nd March 2009	4500
Organics Jazz Trio performing in Port Elizabeth, Umtata, Bisho, and Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa from the 28th March - 4th April 2010	4500

Gregory Harrington performing concerts in Tianjin, Dalian, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Guangzhou, China from the 1st - 10th April 2010	2000
Kieran Goss performing at Celtfest, Havana, Cuba from the 5th - 14th April 2010	1800
Cormac Kenevey performing at the European Union Jazz Festival and Festival del Centro Historico, Mexico City, Mexico from the 25th - 28th March 2010	3500
William Butt performing concerts in Beijing, Shanghai, Ningbo, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Chongqing, China from the 1st - 12th April 2010	4000
Nico Brown and Martin Brunsden performing "Instant Orchestra," an interactive musical at ArtPlay,Melbourne Jazz Festival and Brisbane Out of the Box Festival, Australia, 30th April - 12th June 2010	4000
Cara O'Sullivan performing recitals in California and Arizona, USA from the 4th - 14th February 2010	3500
Masamba Samba School performing at Carnival of Cultures in Berlin from 21st-23rd May 2010	5000
Cathal Breslin performing solo and trio concerts in seven Chinese cities, Seoul, Korea and Tokyo, Japan, from the 2nd - 18th March 2010	10000
Magnetic Music GmbH organising the 1st Irish Heartbeat Festival in various venues around Germany from the 10th - 21st March 2010	6000
DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama performing with the Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra at the Lucas Theatre, Savannah, Georgia on the 13th March 2010	10000
Diversus Guitar Ensemble performing concerts in Offenburg and Baden, Germany, Alsace, France, and Luzern and Lugano, Switzerland from the 15th - 20th May 2010	4000
Kíla performing at the Harare International Festival of the Arts, Zimbabwe from the 27th April - 2nd May 2010	10000
Mairtin O'Connor Band performing at the Womad Festival, Port Fairy Folk Festival, Brunswick Music Festival, Australia and Womad, New Zealand from the 5th - 14th March 2010	12000
Beoga performing a concert tour in various venues in Dover, Reading, Washington, Barre, Boston and Lakewood from the 4th - 15th March 2010	8000
Irish Chamber Orchestra performing at Wigmore Hall, London, UK on the 5th July 2010	12000

The Mattress Factory Art Museum presenting "Nothing and Everything" involving four Irish musicians performing at the Mattress Factory and a number of other venues around Pittsburgh, US in April 2010	9000
Arambe Productions presenting "On a Trip" a blend of Nigerian and Irish music/songs by members of De Jimbe and other musicians at Shell Nigeria Hall, Lagos and Congress Hall, Abuja from the 19th - 21st March 2010	15000
Total	143500

VISUAL ARTS

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Muireann Brady presenting an exhibition "Rituals Interrupted" at the fotofestiwal - the International Festival of Photography at the Lodz Arts Centre, Poland from the 6th - 31st May 2010	500
James Clancy presenting an exhibition "Border Country" at the Croart Photo, Croatia from the 16th - 30th March 2010	500
James Clancy presenting an exhibition "Border Country" at the Northern Photographic Centre, Oulu, Finland from the 25th September - 31st October 2010	500
Maeve Connolly participating in talk and presentation of work of Irish artists at Picture This Atelier, Spike Island, Bristol in March 2009	500
Fergus Martin participating in a group exhibition "With words like smoke" at the Chelsea Space London from the 20th January - 20th February 2010	750
Pauline Cummins presenting a performance piece as part of reciprocal exchange at the Open Space Gallery, Victoria, Canada from the 7th - 26th September 2010	1000
Michelle Browne performing "Untitled" a visual art performance at the 30th Anniversary Festival of the National Review of Live Art, Glasgow on the 19th March 2009	700
Brenda Malley presenting a solo exhibition at the Irish Cultural Centre of New England from the 12th - 26th March 2010	1500
Paddy Jolley presenting an exhibition "Corridor" at Atopia Festival, Norway from the 1st - 22nd April 2010	1000
Sean Lynch presenting an exhibition at the Other Project Space, Frankfurt in May 2010	1200
Theo Sims presenting installation project "The Candahar" at the Vancouver Winter Olympics' Cultural Olympiad, Canada, from the 12th - 28th February 2010	2000
Aleana Egan presenting a sculpture as part of the exhibition, "Leopards in the Temple" at the Sculpture Center, New York from the 10th January - 30th March 2010	2000
Mark Clare producing the "The World Could Wait no Longer" at the Redhouse Theatre, Syracuse, NY 11th March - 12th April 2010	1500
Nuala O'Donovan presenting work at the Royal College of Art, London, from the 26th - 28th February 2010	1000

Bbeyond presentating of work by Irish performance artists in Bergen, Norway in March - April and Ottawa, Canada from the 17th - 19th June 2010	3000
Claire Kerr presenting a solo exhibition at the Purdy Hicks Gallery, London from the 25th February - 20th March 2010	1000
Sarah Iremonger presenting an exhibition at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia Gallery from the 17th March - 2nd April 2010	2500
Eamon O'Kane presenting solo exhibition “E-1027 + Le Cabanon" at the Seeline Gallery, Los Angeles from the 18th February - 30th March 2010	3000
Patrick Jolly presenting his film "Snakes" and Jonathan Cummins presenting "When I leave these Landings" at the Reina Sofia National Museum, Madrid 8th-17th April 2010 and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 29th June - 4th July 2010	3000
Raoul Simpson presenting the "Hall of Mirrors" at WeSee, Davenport Road, Toronto, Canada from the 1st - 30th November 2010	1500
Nuala Goodman presenting a solo exhibition at the Fortuny Museum, Venice from the 15th May - 15th July 2010	5000
Graphic Studio Dublin presenting an exhibition "Where Borders Meet" in Nowy Targ, Krakow and Nowy Sacz, Poland between 16th April - 26th December 2010	5000
Original Print Gallery, Dublin presenting joint exhibition with La Estampa Print Studio in Medellin, Colombia in October - November 2010	3000
Rubicon Gallery participating at the Arco 40 Art Fair, Madrid from the 17th - 21st February 2010	7500
Mark Joyce presenting a group exhibition "The Way Things Are" at Sydney Non Objective, Australia from the 3rd February - 29th March 2010 and Le Petit Port, Leiden, Netherlands from the 16th April - 24th May 2010	6000
Leonard Sheil presenting of the work of six Irish artists at Kuntshalle Krems, Austria in 2010	4000
Garrett Phelan presenting a solo exhibition at Smart Project Space, Amsterdam from the 20th March - 2nd May 2010	6000
John Roch Simons presenting an exhibition titled "Vas Eire part 1" at the 411 Gallery, Shanghai, China in October - November 2010	3000

Fion Gunn presenting "Irish Wave" a series of art events at the Tsinghua Academy of Arts and Crafts, the SiNordic Arts Space, The Yi Gallery and Public Arts Space in Wangsiying St,as part of the Beijing Irish Festival March 2010	8000
Mart presenting an exhibition "Ready - Made" in London, Berlin, Athens and Palenthia, Spain, March - July 2010	10000
James Ryan presenting an exhibition "An Eire of Sense" in Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou and Chengdu, China in 2010	20000
Total	106150

LITERATURE

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Jo Slade participating at the Trnovski Terceti Poetry Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia from the 10th - 12th February 2010	300
Dermot Healy performing poetry readings at The March Hare Poetry Festival, Newfoundland from the 10th - 14th March 2010	700
Neil McCarthy and Niall de Burca performing readings at the Vienna Lit Festival from the 15th - 16th April 2010	750
Nell Regan performing readings from Preparing for Spring at the Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, April 2010	700
Richard Tillinghast presenting poetry readings at the Adelphi University, New York and the Sleeping Giant Poetry Guild, Connecticut, U.S. from the 23rd - 26th March 2009	1000
Declan Kiberd presenting "After Ireland? The Death and Transfiguration of Irish Writing" at the Theatre of European School, Luxembourg on the 11th March 2010	700
Alan Titley performing readings at the Shanghai Literary Festival from the 12th - 13th March 2010	1000
Elizabeth O'Donoghue performing readings at the Shanghai Literary Festival from the 12th - 13th March 2010	1000
Billy Ramsell performing readings at the Shanghai Literary Festival from the 12th - 13th March 2010	1000
Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars presenting US launch of "Frightening New Furniture" and 'Dreams for Breakfast' as part of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, Denver from the 7th - 10th April 2010	1000
Matthew Sweeney performing readings in various venues in Nicaragua, Granada from the 14th - 21st February 2010	1000
Salmon Poetry presenting Irish poets at the AWP conference in Denver, USA from the 7th - 10th April 2010	2000
Alliance Francaise organising the Franco - Irish Literary Festival at the Coach House, Dublin Castle from the 16th - 18th April 2010	4000
Evelyn Conlon performing series of readings in Australia in July/August 2010, including address at the Famine Memorial Event in August 2010	2000
The Scottish Poetry Library and the Scottish Storytelling Centre presenting 3 Irish poets and 3 Irish Storytellers in Edinburgh/Glasgow from the 12th - 20th March 2010	3000

Colm Toibin and Colum McCann performing readings of their work at the Sydney Writers Festival from the 17th - 23rd May 2010	6000
Clé Irish Book Publishers Association participating in London Book Fair from the 19th - 21st April 2010	10000
Total	36150