Theatre and dance
| Name |
Amount in Euros |
Max Hafler participating at the ATHE conference in Denver, USA, 28th July - 3rd August 2008 |
1,000 |
Alexandra Cusack performing Brian Friels "Faith Healer" at the Warehouse Theatre Schaerbeek, Brussels, 22nd - 26th September 2008 |
3,500 |
Pan Pan Theatre Company performing "On a Scale of One to Ten (Crumb Trail)" in Dusseldorf and Berlin, Germany, 12th August - 22nd November 2008 |
50,000 |
Rex Levitates Dance Company performing "Shared Material on Dying" choreographed by Liz Roche at the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London, 19th September 2008 |
6,000 |
Inishowen Carnival Group performing in Reykjavik and Egilsstadir, Iceland, 15th - 23rd August 2008 |
6,000 |
Solas Nua - Tom Creed directing "Take me Away" by Irish playwright Gerald Murphy at the Mead Theatre Lab form the 25th September - 19th October 2008 |
4,000 |
Inis Theatre Company performing "All in the Timing" by David Ives at the Outlaws festival in Pori, Finland, 3rd - 7th September 2008 |
4,000 |
Tall Tales Theatre Company performing "Hue & Cry" by Deirdre Kinahan in Sofia, Bulgaria and Romania from the 31st October - 6th November 2008 |
10,000 |
Fiona Hallinan + Patrick Bresnihan organising a walking tour with a interactive performance element starting from the Conflux venue, 11th - 14th September 2008 |
1,500.00 |
Abbey Theatre performing "Kicking a Dead Horse" by Sam Shepard featuring Stephan Rea at the Public Theatre, New York, 14th - 22nd July 2008 |
6,000 |
MaSamba Samba School participating in the Image Carnival at the Liverpool '08, City of Culture, 2nd August 2008 |
4,500 |
Dublin Theatre Festival showcasing selected Irish Theatre during the Dublin Theatre Festival in November 2008. |
53,000 |
Music
| Name |
Amount in Euros |
Téada performing at the Edmonton Folk Festival in Alberta, Canada, 8th - 10th August 2008 |
2,500 |
Wiener Volksliedwerk Altan participating at the Viennese Song Festival at Theatre Akzent, Vienna, Austria, 11th October 2008 |
2,000 |
Declan De Barra performing at the 18th "Under the Volcano" Arts and Cultural Festival in Vancouver, Canada, 10th August 2008 |
500 |
Shamrock Traditional Irish Music Society 3 concerts of traditional Irish Music on the 23rd July, 9th August and 6th September 2008 |
500 |
Music Network Finghin Collins performing at the Societa dei Concerti in Milan, 7th October 2009 |
1,800 |
Dervish performing at the Edmonton Folk Festival, 7th - 10th August 2008 |
2,500 |
Irish Arts Foundation (Leeds), Irish musicians participating in the Irish and Celtic, Music and Arts Festival, Leeds, 25th October - 9th November 2008 |
2,000 |
Magnetic Music GmBh c/o Petr Pandula organising a tour of Irish Folk concerts in Germany, 16th October - 16th November 2008 |
3,000 |
Gerard Gillen participating in public concert at the Stadium Theolgicum Salesianum in Jerusalem, 8th - 12th October 2008 |
1,750 |
Líadan performing at various Irish Festivals in the US and Canada, 4th August - 13th October 2008 |
7,000 |
Gráinne Mulvey attending the ISCM World Music Days Festival in the Lithuanian Philharmonic Hall, 25th October 2008 |
600 |
Slide touring and showcasing in America, 19th July - 28th September 2008 |
6,000 |
Cullen Pipe Band participating at the Piping Live Festival 2008, Glasgow, 14th and 15th August 2008 |
1,000 |
Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea performing at the Baroque 2000, Durban, South Africa on the 21st December 2008 |
2,500 |
Clonmel Junction Festival - Maslow performing at the "Jeunesses Musicales International Festival in Malawi, 7th - 9th August 2008 |
6,000 |
DIT Early Music Ensemble and Irish traditional Music Ensemble performing at the Flight of the Earls event in St Isadore's College Rome, 24th - 27th October 2008 |
4,000 |
Noel Eccles performing at the Boston Icons Music and Arts Festival at the Irish Cultural Centre of New England, Canton, USA, 13th September 2008 |
10,000 |
Paul G Smyth participating at the festival of improvised music, "Fete Quaqua" at the Vortez Jazz Club, London, 17th - 19th August 2008 |
500 |
Irene Martin organising the 19th Rencontre Musicale Irlandais a week long celebration of traditional arts held in Tocane St Apre, France, 21st - 28th July 2008 |
2,000 |
Dublin Choral Foundation Piccolo Lasso performing at Westminster Cathedral, London, 25th October 2008 |
2,000 |
Oireachtas na Gaeilge, Irish musicians and dancers performing at the Milwaukee Irish festival, 14th - 17th August 2008 |
1,000 |
Nico Brown performing "Instant Orchestra" at the Art Play Melbourne, 13th December 2008 - 7th January 2009 |
4,500 |
Galway Baroque Singers participating in an annual choral festival in Italy, 17th - 19th October 2008 |
1,000 |
English National Opera performing "Riders of the Sea" based on a one act play by Irish Playwright John Millington Synge at the London Coliseum, 27th - 30th November 2008 |
10,000 |
The David Munnelly Band touring in the United States from 1st August - 13th October 2008 |
6,000 |
Dublin Electronic Arts Festival compiling a double CD showcasing Irish acts and launching in the Sugar Club Dublin in September 2008 |
3,000 |
Cara Dillon performing at festivals in Boston, Kansas and California, 13th - 21st September 2008 |
1,000 |
Royal Irish Academy of Music Orchestra performing with Pianist John O'Connor at Seoul National University and Arts Centre, South Korea, Yuri Hall, Showa, Japan and Tourism Ireland Office Beijing, China 24th - 30th November 2008 |
35,000 |
The Fuchsia Band performing at the Fort Collins, Feelin Lucky Irish Festival, Colorado, the Irishfest LaCrosse, Wisconsin and Milwaukee Irish Festival, Wisconsin, USA , 2nd - 17th August 2008 |
1,000 |
Irish Chamber Orchestra performing concerts at the Wigmore Hall and the Forest School, London, 22nd - 23rd September 2008 |
10,000 |
Owenabue Valley Traditional Group participating at the International Folk Festival - Varna 2008, Bulgaria, 3rd - 7th August 2008 |
1,000 |
Gerald Barry performing 2 new pieces at the opening of the Frank Gehry's 2008 Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilion, 19th July 2008 |
1,500 |
Prof Thierry Dubost organising a Music Festival at the Irish Research Group of the University of Caen, France, 11th September 2008 |
3,000 |
The Turning Wave Festival of Irish and Australian Music – participation by Irish performers in the Festival, Australia, 17th - 21st September 2008 |
4,500 |
Visual Arts
| Name |
Amount in Euros |
Wendy Dison presenting a solo exhibition of new paintings at the Liverpool Biennial as part of the Liverpool Capital of Culture, November 2008 |
1,000 |
Nick Miller presenting a solo exhibition called "Truckscapes: Paintings and Drawings from a Mobile Studio" at the New York Studio School Gallery, 10th September - 26th October 2008 |
6,000 |
Clare Langan participating at the Singapore Biennale "Biennale is Wonder", 11th September - 16th November 2008 |
5,000 |
Eugene Conway participating in a group exhibition in the Arts Club, Washington in October 2008 |
2,000 |
Mothers Tankstation participating at the Zoo Art Fair in London from the 17th - 20th October and Art Positions, Miami Basel in Miami, USA, 4th - 7th December 2008 |
10,000 |
Ursula Burke participating in a exhibition by the American Conference for Irish Studies at the Metropolitan State University, Minnesota, US, 9th October - 9th November 2008 |
1,000 |
Phil Kelly organising a solo exhibition in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico, August 2008 - June 2009 |
2,500 |
John Noel Smith organising a solo exhibition at the Cacciola Gallery 531, New York, 4th - 25th September 2008 |
2,000 |
Mark Curran organising a solo exhibition "Septembre De La Photographie" at the Bleu du Ciel Burdeau, Lyons, France from the 20th September - 31st October 2008 and exhibiting at the Singapore Biennale, 8th October - 14th October 2008 |
1,500 |
Jackie Nickerson presenting a solo exhibition at the Brancolini Grimaldi Gallery, Rome, 19th September - 20th October 2008 |
5,000 |
Patricia Looby presenting a solo exhibition at David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, 30th October - 6th December 2008 |
1,500 |
Mary Nally presenting an exhibition of recent Irish art school graduates at the Lowsalt Gallery, Glasgow, 10th - 19th October 2008 |
4,000 |
Sirus Arts Centre presenting a exhibition by three Irish photographers, Séan Hillen, Mark Curran and David Farrell at the Pingyao Photographic Festival in China, 15th - 30th September 2008 |
5,000 |
Cló Ceardlann na gNoc participating at the Art Caucasus exhibition in Tbilisi, Georgia from the 14th - 28th October 2008. |
10,000 |
Alé Mercado organising an exhibition at the Sala de Exposiciones Hacienda Santa Ana, Seville, Spain, 10th October - 9th November 2008 |
1,000 |
John Kelly making a outdoor sculpture at the Guangzhou Triennial in the Guangdong Museum of Modern Art, China, September - November 2008 |
5,000 |
Embassy of Ireland Berlin organising a solo exhibition of Stacia Blake work in the Embassy, Berlin, Germany, September - October 2008 |
3,000 |
David O'Reilly giving lectures on and presenting his films at the performing Arts centre in Washington Square, New York, 5th - 6th September 2008 |
500 |
Aileen Lambert performing at the 4th Infr’Action Festival International d’Art performance in Sete, France, 17th-22nd September 2008. |
900 |
John Kirwan participating in a group exhibition in the Arts Club, Washington in October 2008 |
2,000 |
Crafts Council of Ireland participating at the International Fine Craft Exhibition ‘Sculptural Object Functional Art ‘ in Chicago November 2008. |
20,000 |
Laura Gannon performing a solo exhibition in the Sketch Gallery, London, 25th October - 6th December 2008 |
5,000 |
Literature
| Name |
Amount in Euros |
Matthew Sweeney participating in 1. the Annual International Literary Festival of Poetry in Medana, 26th-30th August. 2.The annual International Literary Festival Druskininkai Poetic Fall in Druskininkai and Vilnius, Lithuania, 2nd - 6th October 2008 |
900 |
Nuala Ní Chonchúir participating in the Tokyo Poetry Festival at the Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan, 31st October - 2nd November 2008 |
1,200 |
Cooperativa Tratti - Mobydick organising 5 Irish writers to participate at an Irish Culture Festival "Proposal over barriers and borders" in Bologna Italy, 11th - 26th October 2008 |
5,000 |
Medbh McGuckian attending Sha'ar International Poetry Festival, Jerusalem in September 2008 |
900 |
Kevin Higgins performing at the Greek Irish Poetry Symposium in Ilion, Athens, Greece, 12th December 2008 |
600 |
Geraldine Whelan participating on discussion panels at the National Council of Teachers of English, Texas, USA, 24th November 2008 |
1,000 |
Dave Murphy participating in an international Poetry Festival at the Estate Farm Luhtre in Rapla, Estonia, 12th - 16th September 2008 |
750 |
Poetry Hearings, Berlin Festival of Poetry organising Irish poets Padraig Rooney and Maurice Scully’s participating at the 4th annual Poetry Hearings at the Berlin Festival of Poetry, 14th -15th November 2008 |
350 |
Wigtown Festival Company bringing 5 Irish writers to Wigtown Book Festival , Wigtown, Scotland, 26th September - 5th October 2008 |
2,800 |
Catherine Dunne performing readings and participating in forum discussions at the Irish American Heritage Center from the 11th - 13th July 2008 |
3,500 |
