Grants awarded in September 2005

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

Theatre and dance
Name Amount in Euros
Prague Quadrennial Ireland Project 2007 request of grant towards cost of Irish participation in the Prague Quadrennial Exhibition of Scenography & Theatre Architecture in June 2007. 140,000
The Gate Theatre request of grant towards cost of presentation of "Beckett 100" in London celebrating the work of Samuel Beckett in March to May 2006. 100,000
Galway Arts Festival request of grant towards cost of performances at the Adelaide Fringe Festival and Bush Theatre in March/April 2006 97,913
St. Patrick's Festival/Bui Bolg request of grant towards cost of performance at the 2006 Chingay Parade, Singapore in February 2006.
        
20,000
Ballet Ireland request of grant towards cost of a tour in the United Kingdom performing Diaghilev and the Red Shoes in Autumn 2005. 15,000
Des Keogh/Maura O'Keeffe request of grant towards cost of participation in the Adelaide Fringe Festival in February to March 2006 in Adelaide, Australia. 15,000
Rex Levitates Dance Company request of grant towards cost of attending the UNESCO 19th World Congress on Dance Research in Larnaca, Cyprus in November 2005.
           
13,000
Conor McDermottroe request of grant towards cost of performance of the play "Swansong" in Finborough Theatre, England in September 2005. 5,500
Shadowbox Theatre Company request of grant towards cost of performance of "Outside" at the 10th Aniversary Ranum International Theatre Festival in Denmark in November 2005. 5,100


Subtotal: €411,513

Film
Name Amount in Euros
Thessaloniki International Film Festival request of grant towards cost of Irish participation in the 46th Thessaloniki Film Festival in November 2005. 5,000
Boston Irish Film Festival request of grant towards cost of Irish participation at the 7th Annual Boston Irish Film Festival in November 2005. 4,000
Cork Film Festival request of grant towards cost of the cost of participation in the sixth edition of the Algerian film festival, Festival du Film Amazigh, in December 2005.  3,000
Cork Film Festival request of grant towards cost of Irish Film Shorts to tour to 20 festivals 2,000
Billy McCannon request of grant towards cost of showing the short film "Recoil" at the International Short Film Festival in Drama, Greece in September/October 2005. 1,440
Solas Nua request of grant towards cost of film festival celebrating women in film called "Amharc Eile: Women Directors in Irish Cinema" in Washington in October 2005. 1,000


Subtotal: €16,440

Music
Name Amount in Euros
Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland request of grant towards cost of performances in New York and Boston in November 2005.
          
82,000
Cork Children's Chorus request of grant towards cost of participation in a Cultural Exchange in Japan in the 2005/2006 academic year. 40,000
European Union Youth Orchestra request of grant towards cost of Irish participation in the European Union Youth Orchestra tours in 2005. 27,360
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group request of grant towards cost of performances of Gerard Barry's opera "The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit" in UK and Paris in January 2007.
          
18,000
Christ Church Cathedral Choir request of grant towards cost of   participation in a tour of US in February 2006. 20,000
Elizabeth Healy request of grant towards cost of performances by traditional Irish musicians in the Festival au Desert in Mali, West Africa in January 2006.
          
15,000
Music from Ireland request of grant towards cost of music showcases at major international music festivals in 2005/2006. 10,000
Colm i Snodaigh request of grant towards cost of writing and performing an original Irish language component to the international production to be premiered at the WSIS Award Ceremony in Tunisia in November 2005. 9,900
Copenhagen Irish Festival request of grant towards Irish cost of participation in the Festival in November 2005 6,728
Return to Camden Town request of grant towards cost of Irish participation in the Return to Camden Town Festival in London in October 2005. 5,472
Liverpool Irish Festival Society Company request of grant towards cost of Irish participation in the 3rd Annual Liverpool Irish Festival in October 2005. 5,000
Romana Kokoska Pulchartova, Concert Agency Miroslav Kokoska, request of grant towards cost of performances by the pianist Finghin Collins and the Skampa Quartet as part of the Ambassadors' concert series in Prague in November 2005. 3,600
Pádraigín Ní Uallachaín request of grant towards cost of performances of Irish traditional sean-nos singing and participation in workshops in Indian Rasa singing in Madras in January 2006.
          
3,503
Oslo World Music Festival request of grant towards cost of the participation of Altan in the Oslo World Music Festival in November 2005. 2,000
Shane O'Driscoll – The Gathering Festival request of grant towards cost of traditional music tour of Chicago, US in October 2005.
          
1,590
Derek Glesson request of grant towards cost of performances by Derek Gleeson and Connor Linehan with the Vratza Philharmonic in Bulgaria in November 2005.
          
980
Dr. Deirdre Gribbin request of grant towards cost of performance and a series of lectures in Tokyo, Japan in November 2005. 800
Paul Roe request of grant towards cost of participation in the 5th Conference on the Theory of Music in Lithuania in October 2005. 608


Subtotal: 254,541

Visual art
Name Amount in Euros
Rubicon Gallery request of grant towards cost of participation in the FIAC Art Fair Paris, France and in the ART Cologne in Germany in October 2005. 11,834
John Minihen request of grant towards cost of a photography exhibition in Monaco in March 2006.
        
10,000
Sandra Grozdanic request of grant towards cost of Irish artists participating in a Dublin/Belgrade project in Serbia in March / April 2006. 7,500
Green on Red Gallery request of grant towards cost of participation in the contemporary international art fair FIAC Paris in October 2005. 7,400
Kerlin Gallery request of grant towards cost of participation in the Frieze Art Fair in London in October 2005 7,350
Circa Art Magazine request of grant towards cost of attending art fairs in Miami, Madrid, New York, Basel, Melbourne and London from December 2005 to October 2006 and advertising via e-flux. 6,233
Ian Joyce request of grant towards cost of participating at the Art Caucasus International Art Fair in Georgia in October 2005. 5,000
Hilary Staunton request of grant towards cost of a photographic and painting exhibition in Paris in September 2005. 3,500
Fion Gunn request of grant towards cost of an artist's residency in Beijing in October 2005. 2,403
Dr. Michael Casey request of grant towards cost of curatoring John Minihen's work and presenting a lecture on Irish contemporary art photography in Monaco in March 2006. 1,105
Micheal John Whelan request of grant towards cost of participation in the exhibition 'Field' in London in October 2005. 1,090


Subtotal: €63,415

Literature
Name Amount in Euros
Dr. Finbarr Mc Loughlin request of grant towards cost of giving a series of lectures on Irish History at the University of Vienna in March-June 2006. 7,400
Dermot Keogh request of grant towards cost of participation in the Conference on "Ireland and the Holy See - From Earliest Times to the Present" to be held in the Irish College, Rome in Spring 2006. 2,400
Impressions d'Europe request of grant towards cost of a conference on Irish and Welsh literature in October 2005 in France. 2,310
Marie-Claire Considere-Charon request of grant towards cost of the annual conference of the French Society of Irish Studies (SOFEIR) in March 2006. 2,000
Mary Grehan request of grant towards cost of a presentation of research findings from "Mind Where You Look - A Compartive Study of a Gallery and a Hosiptal as Sites for Viewing Art" at the 31st International Conference on Social Theory, Politics and the Arts in University of Oregon, USA in October 2005. 1,386
Dipartimento di Teorie e Techniche dei Sistemi Culturali request of grant towards cost of lectures and performances in Sassari and Florinas, Italy in November 2005. 1,050
Aodh Ó Canainn request of grant towards cost of participation in the 4th International Writers Conference "Days and Nights of Literature" in Bucharest and Neptun, Romania in September 2005. 500


Subtotal: €17,046