Grants awarded in December 2008

Theatre and dance, Film, Music, Visual art, Literature

Theatre and dance
Name Amount in Euros

Ursula Mawson-Raffalt presenting "ephemeral silence or the universe of d.a.n.t.e. #1" in Aarhus, Denmark from 20th - 22nd March 2009

1,000

Prof Anthony Roche/ Irish participation in seminars,talks and readings to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of Brian Friel at New York University on 2nd May 2009

3,000

Megan Riordan performing "Luck" at the Arches Theatre Festival, Glasgow and Shunt Vaults, London in April 2009

4,000

Irish Arts Center presenting "Voyage for Freedom: Frederick Douglass in Ireland and Barack Obama in America" at the Irish Arts Center from the 17 - 21 March 2009

3,000

Sarah Jane Scaife performing scenes from "An Anthology of Irish Literature" in Beijing March 2009.

5,000

Irish Arts Center presenting "Ladies and Gents" by Paul Walker at Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, NY from 16th March to 12th April 2009.

20,000

Barabbas Theatre Company performing "Circus"  at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven, Connecticut from the 13th - 21st June 2009

35,000

Daghdha Dance Company presenting "Choreography for Blackboards" at the Zodiak Centre, Helsinki from the 6th - 7th February 2009

4,000

Irish National Youth Ballet Company performing at the Youth Dance Festival in Nettuno, Italy on the 9th May 2009

5,000

Bealtaine (Age and Opportunity)/ joint collaboration and performance at the Dance Life Festival 2009, Sapporo, Japan from the 9th - 17th March 2009

8,000

Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre and English National Opera / co-production of "The Rite of Spring" at the London Coliseum in November 2009

100,000

Gare St Lazare presenting "First Love" by Samuel Beckett in New Haven Connecticut, USA from 16th - 20th June, Grahamstown, South Africa 3rd - 6th July and Capetown, South Africa from the 8th - 12th July 2009

9,000

Team Educational Theatre Company performing "Devotion" in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa in Autumn 2009

35,000

Dance Base presenting "Dialogue" by Fearghus Ó Conchuir from 5th - 23rd August and "Raw" by Fidget Feet from 18th - 30th August 2009 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

75,000

Dance Theatre of Ireland performing "Block Party" at international dance festivals in Korea in April - May 2009 and at the Greenwich & Docklands Festivals, London in June 2009

40,000

Irish Modern Dance Theatre performing "The White Piece" by John Scott in Dance Landscapes, a network of three festivals in Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine from the 18th - 27th April 2009

35,000

 

The London St Patrick's Day Festival, Irish participation, 15th March 2009.

8,000


Subtotal: 390,000

Film
Name Amount in Euros

Kerry Film Festival promoting Irish Short film at the Sundance Film Festival, January 2009

1,500

Marc - Ivan O'Gorman presenting a selection of short films at the Mint Gallery, New Delhi from the 13th - 29th March 2009

3,000

Paul Rowley presenting feature documentary "Seaview" in Berlin and to tour ten cities in February - March 2009

4,000

Zero Em Comportamento/Irish participation and presentation of Irish cinema in the IndieLisboa Film Festival, Lisbon from the 23rd April - 3rd May 2009

5,500

David P Kelly Films presenting the London Irish Film Festival in various London venues from the 7th - 15th March 2009

7,000

Cork Film Festival presenting a showcase of Irish cinema at the Festival International du Cinéma Méditerranéen du Tetouan, Morocco from the 29th March - 6th April 2009

6,000

Seamus Byrne presenting "Eamon" at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2009

3,000

Esperanza Collado presenting Irish film programme in Margenes festival of experimental film and art, Madrid, from the 23rd - 29th May 2009 in Madrid, Spain

8,000

Fleadh Foundation organising the Craic film and music festival in New York  from the 11th - 14th March 2009

12,000

 

Tony O Donohue presenting “A Film from my Parish – 6 Farms” at the Sundance Film Festival, in Utah, USA from 15 – 25  January 2009.

 

2,000


Subtotal: 52,000

Music
Name Amount in Euros

Fergal Dowling performing at the Ohrenhoch der Gerauschlade sound art Gallery, Berlin from the 18th - 20th March 2009

400

Tonos Early Music Ensemble performing "Music of the Wild Geese" recital and lecture at the Royal Society for Arts, London on the 26th February 2009

300

Tyneside Irish Cultural Society presenting a series of concerts by traditional Irish musicians from the 29th January - 23rd April 2009

1,000

Shamrock Traditional Irish Music Society presenting traditional Irish music concerts in Fairfield, CT, US from January - March 2009

500

Noelie Mc Donnell performing at the Folk Alliance conference / showcase, Memphis, US from the 18th - 22nd February 2009

750

Irene Buckley presenting performance of "Evolution of close double stars" at the New York Electroacoustic Music Festival from the 2nd - 4th April 2009

1,200

Sonya Keogh performing and leading workshops in Tokyo and other venues in Japan, from the 12th - 26th March 2009

1,000

Irish Arts Foundation presenting concerts by Beoga, Swallows Tail and other artists at venues in Leeds, UK, from February - April 2009

1,000

Emmet Scanlan performing at the Folk Alliance conference / showcase, Memphis, US from the 18th - 22nd February 2009

2,000

Martin Healy performing concerts, Montserrat, West Indies from the 12th - 22nd March 2009

1,500

Aindrais Stack performing "Around the World on 80 Quid" at festivals in Australia and New Zealand, February - April 2009

1,500

Embassy of Ireland in Latvia Organising "Voices from Ireland" festival of songwriting, Riga, Latvia from the 13th  - 17th March 2009

3,000

Romana Kokoska Pulchartova presenting the Callino Quartet at the Marble Hall, Prague Castle on the 7th April 2009

2,000

Líadan performing concerts in Texas, New York and New Jersey from the 6th - 14th March 2009

3,000

Irish Diaspora Foundation presenting three Irish music concerts in the London Irish Centre, Birmingham Irish Centre and Manchester Irish World Heritage Centre from the 4th - 6th March 2009

2,500

Kevin Brady (Organics)/Organics performing a tour of Mexico from the 25th March - 5th April 2009

4,500

Magnetic Music GmbH presenting a 15 concert tour by Fallen Angels, Outside Track and Searson in Germany and Switzerland from the 12th - 29th March 2009

3,000

Ensemble Scratch the Surface performing concerts in Brighton, Manchester and London from 12th - 17th July 2009

2,000

Mary Dullea Fidelio Trio performing a tour in China from the 1st - 15th June 2009

6,500

Ceoltoiri na Sionainne performing at the North American Comhaltas Convention, St Louis from the 16th - 19th April 2009

3,000

Patrick Garrett/Beoga performing a US tour from the 27th Feb - 28th March 2009

3,000

Cantor Music/Carmel Conway and band performing a US tour from the 26th February - 17th March 2009

1,000

Camerata Ireland performing at the La Chaise Dieu and Berlioz Festivals in France on the 26th and 27th August 2009

10,000

Gráda performing a US tour from the 26th February - 29th March 2009

3,000

Opera Theatre Company performing Handel's "Orlando" at the Buxton Festival from the 13th - 27th July 2009

30,000

Na Píobairí Uilleann US tour and UK tour of "Piperlink" from May - September 2009

17,000

El Feile presenting Festival in Barcelona, Madrid and Bilbao from the 12th - 21st March 2009

10,000

Irish World Academy of Music and Dance presenting a concert in Paris by ACADEMOS Irish World Strings,  March 2009.

7,000

Our Lady's Choral Society performing Handel's "Messiah" in the Vatican, Rome on the 12th February 2009.

15,000

U.S Ireland Alliance /Irish Artists performing at the “Oscar Wilde” event in Los Angeles,  February 2009

40,000

Irish Arts Center presenting  "Sweet Rosie O'Grady:An Irish Salute to Tin Pan Alley" at Symphony Space, New York, 16 March 2009.

3,000


Subtotal:184,950

Visual Arts
Name Amount in Euros

Barry Hughes presenting a solo exhibition in association with the 411 Gallery, Shanghai in April 2009

750

Marie Brett presenting a exhibition of work at the NES Centre, Skagastrond, Iceland from the 4th - 29th March 2009

850

Michelle Browne presenting a visual arts performance "The Bearer" at the National Review of Live Art, Glasgow on the 12th February 2009

1,200

Peter Fulop presenting a solo exhibition at the Sculpture Factory, Jingdezhen, China in May 2009

1,300

Christine Mackey participating in a collaborative programme and exhibition in Argentina from the 9th - 23rd March 2009

1,100

Enda O'Donoghue presenting a solo exhibition at the Irish Arts Center, New York from the 27th April - 23rd June 2009

2,500

Katie Holten presenting an exhibition in the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf from May - August 2009

1,700

Stephen Lawlor presenting a solo exhibition at the Galleri Astley Culture Centre, Bergslagen, Sweden, from the 15th March 2009 - 12th April 2009

2,500

Dan Murphy organising a photographic exhibition in China as part of a Chinese Irish exchange, 2009 - 2010

3,500

Janet Pierce presenting an exhibition at Galleries Artfelt, New Delhi from the 6th - 21st March 2009

4,000

Limerick City Gallery of Art presenting "Into Irish Drawing” at CCI, Paris, France and Aktuele Kunst Hengelo, The Netherlands from the 13th September - December 2009

5,000

The George Moore Society presenting "Ground: Contempory art from Ireland" at the American Irish Historical Society, New York, from the 26th February - 29th March 2009

15,000

RHA Projects presenting work by John Gerrard at the Venice Art Biennale in June 2009

25,000

Varvara Shavrova presenting "Untouched" a multi media project at the festival of Irish Culture Shanghai from the 14th March - 12th April 2009

2,500

Green on Red presenting a solo exhibition of Denis McNulty work at the Volta NY Art Fair, 5th - 8th March 2009.

5,000

Fion Gunn presenting two collaborative exhibitions of Irish and Chinese artists - "Our Books, Our Lives" and the "City" in Beijing, 1st - 31st March 2009.

14,000

James Ryan, 411 Galleries, presenting the exhibition “Drawing Eire” in Shanghai, Beijing and Hangzhou,  March 2009 onwards

20,000

 

Subtotal: 105,900

Literature
Name Amount in Euros

Literature Across Frontiers/Vona Groarke and Conor O'Callaghan performing at the Literary Café and Academy, Prague, on the 17th and 18th February 2009

900

Maurice Scully giving poetry readings in various venues, California from the 1st - 7th April 2009

800

Paul Perry giving readings at the University of Central Missouri and in the Writers Place, Kansas City in March 2009

1,000

Billy Ramsell giving readings at the March Hare Poetry Festival, Newfoundland, Canada from the 11th - 14th March 2009

1,500

Edition Rugerup/ Nimrod Forlagab/Gabriel Rosenstock and translator giving a reading at the Leipzig Book Fair on the 13th March 2009

1,500

Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars giving readings at the 2009 AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programmes) Conference in Chicago from the 11th - 14th February 2009

1,400

The Munster Literature Centre/William Wall and Thomas McCarthy giving readings at the Shanghai Literary Festival and Irish Week from the 10th - 15th March 2009

2,500

Perth Writers Festival / Sebastian Barry participating in the Perth Writers Festival, Australia from the 26th February - 2nd March 2009

2,500

Oilibhéar Ó Braonáin / Dr Ian Malcolm to give a public lecture on the Irish Language and the Ulster Protestant tradition at the European School, Luxembourg on 12th February 2009

1,000

Alliance Francaise Dublin  presenting the 10th Franco-Irish Literary Festival in Dublin Castle on the 3rd- 4th April 2009

5,000


Subtotal:18,100