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Application deadline
05 December 2024 17:30
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The Co-funding Award 2025 is subdivided by strands. Strand 1: Co-funding Award for Creative Europe Cooperation Projects commencing in 2025. Strand 2: Co-funding Award for Partner Meetings in preparation for Creative Europe Cooperation Project applications.
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Maximum award
Unlimited
Accepting applications
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Application deadline
05 December 2024 17:30
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The Arts Council will offer Creative Production Supports, in a two year award 2025/2026, in response to the ongoing need for creative production support across the arts sector.
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Maximum award
€480,000
Accepting applications
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Application deadline
21 February 2025 17:00
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ilDÁNA is designed to enhance the TG4 schedule by supporting the making of ambitious and cinematic long-form documentaries on the arts in Irish.
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Maximum award
€135,000
Accepting applications
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Application deadline
Ongoing
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The Writers in Schools Scheme part-funds visits by writers and storytellers to schools throughout the island of Ireland.
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Maximum award €200
Accepting applications
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Application deadline
23 January 2025 17:30
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The Touring of Work Scheme 2025 - Round 2 invites applications for proposals seeking funding to support the touring of work across all artform and arts practice areas for tours taking place in the Republic of Ireland starting from July - December 2025. Guidelines and application form will follow soon.
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Maximum award
Unlimited
Opens 10 December 2024
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Application deadline
23 January 2025 17:30
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Applications are invited for proposals seeking funding to support the touring of work across all artform and arts practice areas for tours taking place in the Republic of Ireland with a start date in 2026.
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Maximum award
Unlimited
Opens 10 December 2024
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Application deadline
25 April 2024 17:30
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The Agility Award supports individual professional artists, freelance artists and arts practitioners.
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Maximum award
€5,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
14 September 2023 17:30
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An Invitation to Collaboration Scheme supports initiatives in the field of local-authority-led arts development.
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Maximum award
€90,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
15 February 2024 17:30
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The award supports professional individual architects in the development of their arts practice.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
25 July 2024 17:30
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This award supports projects in the field of architecture.
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Maximum award
€80,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
29 March 2024 12:00
Next round opens
23 February 2024
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The Artist and Youth Work Residency Grant Scheme is designed to promote innovative partnerships between youth groups, artists and (where relevant) arts organisations. A residency may take the form of an artist in residence in a youth work setting and/or a youth group in residence in an arts setting. There are two strands to the artist and youth work residency scheme: Youth Arts Explorer Grant and the Artist and Youth Work Residency Grant.
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Maximum award
€5,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
30 September 2024 17:00
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The Artist in the Community Scheme, managed by Create, offers awards to enable artists and communities of place and/or interest to work together on projects.
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Maximum award
€15,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
19 September 2024 17:30
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The purpose of Arts Centre Funding is to invest in and support the infrastructure of arts centres required to sustain and develop the arts in Ireland.
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Maximum award
Unlimited
Application closed
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Application deadline
14 March 2024 17:30
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Arts Grant Funding will be awarded to organisations and individuals to carry out a series of activities taking place from either January - December 2025, or January 2025 - December 2026.
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Maximum award
Unlimited
Application closed
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Application deadline
15 February 2024 17:30
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The primary focus of the Arts Participation Bursary Award is on the artist and the exploration and development of the applicant's own individual artistic practice. The award is to support individual professional artists working in any artform to develop their arts participation practice, including collaborative, community and socially engaged arts practices.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
25 July 2024 17:30
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The Arts Participation Project Award supports initiatives in the field of arts participation (participatory, collaborative, community and socially engaged arts practices).
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Maximum award
€60,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
8 October 2024 16:00
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Arts and Disability Connect (ADC) is a scheme open to artists with disabilities working in any artform.
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Maximum award
€15,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
4 April 2024 17:30
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The purpose of the Arts in Early Learning and Childcare Scheme 2024 is to provide opportunities for babies and young children to explore and enjoy the arts with the support of artists, early-years educators, school-age practitioners, families and carers.
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Maximum award
€40,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
6 June 2024 17:30
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The purpose of Authored Works is to provide film artists with the creative and editorial freedom to make a feature-length authored cultural film work from a strong artistic point of view. Films must be artist-led.
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Maximum award
€230,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
25 September 2023 18:00
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Beyond Borders is a co-commissioning and touring programme run in partnership with Creative Scotland, Arts Council of Wales, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Arts Council of Ireland / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.
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Maximum award
€15,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
20 June 2024 17:30
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The award supports individual professional artists at any stage of their career in the development of their arts practice.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
25 July 2024 17:30
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This award supports projects in the field of Circus.
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Maximum award
€50,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
22 February 2024 17:30
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The Commissions Award is available in Music, Opera, Traditional Arts and Festivals.
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Maximum award
€45,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
28 March 2024 17:30
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Strand 1 and Strand 2 are open only to existing Creative Places Award recipients who have already been awarded three-year funding in the Creative Places programme. Strand 3 is open to new applicants, such as local-authority arts offices, including Ealaín na Gaeltachta, arts organisations and community-development organisations (e.g. family-resource centres, agencies or organisations supporting specific groups).
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Maximum award
€30,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
9 May 2024 17:30
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Scoileanna Ildánacha/Creative Schools initiative supports schools/centres to put the arts and creativity at the heart of children’s and young people’s lives.
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Maximum award
€4,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
7 March 2024 17:30
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Culture Night Late is designed to support events that will begin after 9pm and continue late into the night on Culture Night, Friday 20 September 2024. The award is offered in partnership with the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Night Time Economy Taskforce to offer audiences a greater diversity in their Culture Night experience late into the night, and to encourage more-inclusive and innovative late-night arts events suitable for a range of audience types into the future.
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Maximum award
€12,500
Application closed
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Application deadline
22 February 2024 17:30
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The purpose of this scheme is to stabilise and support a network of dance artists in residence across the country.
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Maximum award
€25,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
20 June 2024 17:30
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The purpose of the award is to support professional artists in the field of dance to develop their art practice. It provides artists at any stage of their career with the time and resources to think, research, reflect and critically engage with their art.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
25 July 2024 17:30
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This award supports projects in the field of Dance.
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Maximum award
€100,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
15 February 2024 17:30
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The purpose of the Deis Recording & Publication Award is to provide support for traditional arts projects, or projects involving collaboration between the traditional arts and other artforms, that focus on the recording or publication of work. Next date to be announced.
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Maximum award
€10,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
20 June 2024 17:30
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Dámhachtain sparánachta litríochta don ghaeilge
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
21 November 2024 17:30
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The Festivals Investment scheme is open to multi-disciplinary festivals and single artform festivals taking place between 1 July and 31 December 2025.
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Maximum award
€45,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
28 October 2021 17:30
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The Film Artist in Residence, based in the School of Film, Music and Theatre, is designed to provide a film artist with a unique opportunity to develop their practice in a university environment while offering students of film and screen media the opportunity to engage with a practising artist in a meaningful way during the course of their studies.
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Maximum award
€30,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
15 February 2024 17:30
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The award supports professional individual artists at any stage of their career working in the field of experimental or non-narrative film making to develop their arts practice.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
25 July 2024 17:30
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This award supports specific projects in the field of film.
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Maximum award
€80,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
4 April 2024 17:30
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The purpose of the scheme is to support art organisations in the delivery of residency initiatives and to create opportunities for transnational exchange and cooperation across all art forms.
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Maximum award
€50,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
6 June 2024 17:30
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The Irish-language Theatre Production and Touring Award is an action research project, with support from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI).
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Maximum award
€400,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
20 June 2024 17:30
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The award supports professional individual writers (writing in the English language) in the development of their arts practice.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
25 July 2024 17:30
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This award supports projects in the field of Literature.
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Maximum award
€30,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
6 June 2024 17:30
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The Markievicz Award is administered by the Arts Council on behalf of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. Up to 10 artists from all backgrounds, artform and arts practice areas will receive an award of €25,000.
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Maximum award
€25,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
25 July 2024 17:30
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This award supports projects in the field of Music.
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Maximum award
€40,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
20 June 2024 17:30
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The award supports professional individual artists at any stage of their career in the field of music to develop their arts practice.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
15 February 2024 17:30
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The award supports professional individual artists at any stage of their career in the field of opera to develop their art practice.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
21 March 2024 17:30
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The Opera Projects and Production Award is intended to support initiatives by professional practitioners in the development and presentation of opera.
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Maximum award
€450,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
3 October 2024 17:30
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To provide funding on a competitive basis to support Local Authorities and Ealaín na Gaeltachta with ambitious and imaginative proposals to assist artists in developing their practice and their ideas, and/or deliver excellent arts experiences to the public.
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Maximum award
Unlimited
Application closed
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Application deadline
6 June 2024 17:30
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The purpose of Reel Art is to provide film artists with the opportunity to make highly creative, imaginative and experimental documentaries on an artistic theme for cinema exhibition.
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Maximum award
€120,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
5 September 2024 17:30
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To provide funding on a competitive basis to support arts organisations with ambitious and imaginative proposals to assist artists in developing their practice and their ideas, and/or deliver excellent arts experiences to the public.
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Maximum award
Unlimited
Application closed
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Application deadline
20 June 2024 17:30
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The award supports individual professional artists at any stage of their career in the development of their arts practice.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
25 July 2024 17:30
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This award supports projects in the fields of Street Arts and Spectacle commencing.
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Maximum award
€50,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
20 June 2024 17:30
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The award supports professional theatre artists in the development of their arts practice.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
21 November 2024 17:30
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This award supports projects in the field of Theatre.
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Maximum award
€26,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
24 October 2024 17:30
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The Traditional Artist in Residence, based in the Department of Music in the College of Arts, Celtic Studies, and Social Sciences, is designed to provide a traditional artist (traditional musician, singer, dancer, story-teller or practitioner of the oral arts such as agallamh beirte and lúibíní) with a unique opportunity to develop their practice in a university environment while offering students of music the opportunity to engage with a practising artist in a meaningful way during the course of their studies.
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Maximum award
€30,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
20 June 2024 17:30
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This award supports professional artists to develop their art practice. It provides artists with the time and resources to think, research, reflect and critically engage with their art.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
25 July 2024 17:30
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This award supports projects in the field of Traditional Arts.
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Maximum award
€80,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
12 September 2024 17:30
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The scheme will award grants of up to €50,000 towards workspace costs – i.e. the running costs of the workspace such as light, heat, rent, administration and/or appropriate management costs and artist development costs. A proportion of support up to a maximum of 20% of the total request may be directed towards essential repair and maintenance.
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Maximum award
€50,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
20 June 2024 17:30
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The award supports professional individual artists at any stage of their career in the development of their practice.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
25 July 2024 17:30
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This award supports projects and initiatives in the field of Visual Arts.
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Maximum award
€80,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
3 October 2024 17:30
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The Arts Council has a long-standing partnership with a number of Irish universities offering Writer-in-Residence/Fellowship positions to provide university students of Creative Writing MA and MFA programmes with an opportunity to work with and learn from a professional author of distinction, and to enable writers to develop their work while in a position of relative financial stability.
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Maximum award
€30,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
29 February 2024 17:30
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The primary purpose of the Young Ensembles Scheme is to support groups of young people between the ages of ten and twenty-four to create or critically engage with ambitious and original work together in any artform (e.g. circus, street art, spectacle, dance, digital media, film, music, theatre, literature, visual arts, architecture, or any combination of the above). Groups/ensembles must be made up of three or more members.
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Maximum award
€25,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
25 July 2024 17:30
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The award supports specific projects in the field of Young People, Children and Education.
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Maximum award
€80,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
4 April 2024 17:30
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YPCE Residencies support artists or arts organisations to spend an academic year in residence in a higher-education institution in Ireland that provides initial teacher education (primary, post-primary or further education) and/or a recognised qualification in early childhood education and care. The residencies are open to all artform and arts-practice areas.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
20 June 2024 17:30
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The Young People, Children, and Education Bursary Award supports individual professional artists working with, and producing work for, children and young people across a range of artforms. The purpose of the award is to support professional artists to develop their art practice.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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