An Chomhaırle Ealaíon

An Tríochadú Turascáil Bhliantúil, maille le Cuntais don bhliain dar chríoch 31ú Nollaig 1981. Tíolacadh don Rialtas agus leagadh faoi bhráid gach Tí den Oireachtas de bhun Altanna 6 (3) agus 7 (1) den Acht Ealaíon 1951.

Thirtieth Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31st December 1981. Presented to the Government and laid before each House of the Oireachtas pursuant to Sections 6 (3) and 7 (1) of the Arts Act, 1951.

Cover: Photograph by Thomas Grace from the Arts Council touring exhibition of Irish photography "Out of the Shadows".

Members James White, Chairman Brendan Adams (until October) Kathleen Barrington Brian Boydell Máire de Paor Andrew Devane Bridget Doolan Dr. J. B. Kearney Hugh Maguire (until December) Louis Marcus (until December) Seán Ó Tuama (until January) Donald Potter Nóra Relihan Michael Scott Richard Stokes Dr. T. J. Walsh James Warwick

Staff Director Colm Ó Briain Drama and Dance Officer Arthur Lappin Opera and Music Officer Marion Creely Traditional Music Officer Paddy Glackin Education and Community Arts Officer Adrian Munnelly Literature and Combined Arts Officer Laurence Cassidy Visual Arts Officer/Grants Medb Ruane Visual Arts Officer/Exhibitions Patrick Murphy Finance and Regional Development Officer David McConnell Administration, Research and Film Officer David Kavanagh Administrative Assistant Nuala O'Byrne Secretarial Assistants Veronica Barker Patricia Callaly Antoinette Dawson Sheilah Harris Kevin Healy Bernadette O'Leary Receptionist Kathryn Cahille

70 Merrion Square, Dublin 2. Tel: (01) 764685.

An Chomhaırle Ealaíon

An Chomhairle Ealaíon/The Arts Council is an independent organization set up under the Arts Acts 1951 and 1973 to promote the arts. It operates through a wide-ranging programme of financial assistance and special services, offered to both individuals and organizations. The Council also acts as an adviser on artistic matters to the Government and Government Departments and is one of four bodies which have a statutory duty to make representations to planning authorities in connection with applications for planning permission in areas of special amenity throughout the country.

The Council consists of a board of not more than seventeen members appointed by the Taoiseach. The present board was appointed in December 1978 and its term of office will expire in 1983. The board meets about ten times a year to set Council policies and make decisions within the terms of the Arts Acts. These policies and decisions are implemented by a staff headed by a Director, appointed by the Council.

The Council reports to the Oireachtas through the Taoiseach and its accounts are audited by the Auditor General.

Annual grants from the Oireachtas are the Council's main source of income. These grants are supplemented by income from local authorities and private organizations and the Council also administers a number of trust funds, set up privately for specific purposes.

The arts are defined in the Arts Acts and include: The Visual Arts (painting, sculpture, architecture, print-making, design); The Performing Arts (theatre, dance, music, opera); Literature; Film; Crafts.

Contents

Page Chairman's Introduction 5 Report 7 Visual Arts 11 Literature 19 Drama 23 Music 27 Traditional Music 31 Opera 33 Dance 35 Film 37 Arts Centres and Festivals 38 Education 39 Community Arts 43 Regional Arts 44 Capital 45 Accounts 47

Chairman's Introduction

The main direction of the Council, in its early years, was to encourage artistic activity and to make awareness of the arts a greater part of the national consciousness. It could be said that these ends have been achieved. Our primary need now is for funding to support the musician, the visual artist, the writer and the actor. It has also become necessary to find a way to bridge financially the years between the discovery of this talent and its full professional development. This the Council has endeavoured to do by the introduction of bursaries, scholarships, travel grants and grants to groups who provide opportunities for the emerging artist.

At the same time the pressure in maintaining the established institutions has never been so great. With the increase of costs at every level and the comparative decline in the nation's financial resources, our continuing increases in the grants to these institutions are insufficient to ensure that standards will not be effected and the art forms in question not threatened with decline.

We have continued to pursue our joint ventures with our colleagues in the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and we commenced, during the year, an examination of the implications for the arts of wide- spread unemployment. We have agreed that the Arts Councils, north and south, should prepare for an era in which a very large number of people will be permanently without work and that it will be necessary to provide alternative opportunities in the region of the arts.

It is with deep regret that we record the death during the year of Brendan Adams, one of our members, whose work for the Ulster Folk Museum was of considerable significance. He made a major contribution in the area of literature, language and philology.

We also regret that pressure of work in other areas led three members to resign from the Council. Hugh Maguire, Louis Marcus and Sean Ó Tuama are distinguished in the fields of music, film and literature respectively. Whilst their own disciplines will benefit from the greater amount of time they will have available, their loss to the Arts Council is incalculable. We would like to place on record our gratitude to them for their excellent work with us over the years.

The report which follows indicates the wide area covered by the Council's activities and it is hoped that this work will be seen as a preparation for an expanded future for the arts in Ireland.

James White, Chairman.

Ingrid Craigie, Deirdre Donnelly and Fedelma Cullen in a scene from "Scenes from an Album" by William Trevor which premiered at the Abbey in August 1981.

Report

Aosdána, the affiliation of artists engaged in literature, music and the visual arts, was established by the Council in 1981. Aosdána will consist of not more than 150 artists selected on the basis that they have established a reputation for achievement and distinction in their disciplines. The scheme is intended to honour those artists whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland and will encourage and assist its members to devote their energies fully to their art by offering those who need it, a basic level of financial security.

The Council believes that this initiative complemented by the existing awards, bursaries and scholarship schemes and Ciste Cholmcille has the potential to make a major contribution to the arts in Ireland in the coming decades.

The desirability of a scheme such as this has been evident to the Council for a number of years. The prospect of a system of honours to artists was first discussed by the Council in 1978. These discussions took place in the context of the Council's increased conviction that its first priority is to improve the status, self-confidence and professionalism of the individual creative artist. The strength of this conviction is clear from the steady increase in the number and value of bursaries, scholarships and awards which the Council was able to make available to artists. In 1979 the Council proposed to the Government certain changes in the terms of Ciste Cholmcille (a fund established by Additional Functions Order 1966 whose objective is provide assistance to artists who find themselves in difficulties) to improve the effectiveness of the fund. These changes were approved in 1980. In 1979 the Council also commissioned a major research project from Irish Marketing Surveys Ltd. on the Living and Working Conditions of Artists. The survey revealed the precise extent of financial restraints on Irish artists. As a result the Council decided (in the words of the Chairman's Introduction for the Report of 1980) "to initiate a comprehensive proposal which will offer opportunities for the development of the creative artist in Ireland".

In bringing the Aosdána proposal to fruition the Council was extremely fortunate to have the advice of the writer Anthony Cronin who acts as Advisor on Cultural and Artistic matters to the Taoiseach and also to have the support of the then Taoiseach, Charles J. Haughey T.D. The Council is extremely grateful for this support.

In December the Council announced the names of the first 89 members of Aosdána. These members are now entitled to apply to the Council for Cnuas grants. To qualify for these grants members will be expected to concentrate full-time on their art. Cnuais are valued at £4,000 per annum revised annually and are payable for five years. The list of names of the first members of Aosdana are included in this Report on page 9.

Another initiative which will be of benefit to individual artists in Ireland is the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig. In October, in the presence of the Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald T.D., the Centre formally opened its doors to artists. The former home of the late Sir Tyrone Guthrie was bequeathed by him to the nation in order that there might be opportunities for creative artists — writers, composers, painters and sculptors — to stay there and give concentrated attention to their work. The Centre is administered by a company established in partnership with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. About eighty artists spent periods in residence in the house before the end of the year.

A proposal which would undoubtedly have a major effect on the arts had it come to fruition by years end, was that of the Coalition Government to introduce a Department of Culture and the Arts. In the Council's view there are both advantages and disadvantages in the concept of a Department of Culture and the Arts. Centralising all cultural activities in one department is clearly a rational approach which would give the arts and culture a specific voice at Government level. Centralisation, of course, also has its problems. A single centralised fund for the arts might be more vulnerable to cuts during a period of restrictions in public expenditure.

The Council does have strong views on one element of the proposal for such a Department. Since it was established in 1951 the Council has regarded its independence as one of its greatest strengths. To be able to act as a buffer between Government and the arts community is in fact one of the principal reasons why the Council was established. The Council believes that it should zealously guard this independence while, of course, welcoming the increased interest in the arts shown by elected representatives of all parties in recent years.

1981 also saw the opening of Ireland's National Concert Hall. The Hall, which has been attractively converted, is a credit to the Office of Public Works who undertook the work. The Board of the Concert Hall receives a small grant directly from the Department of the Taoiseach. The Board's stated policy is to encourage a situation of the smallest possible reliance on State funds by emphasising popular musical activities in the Hall. While naturally welcoming an approach to reduce reliance on State funds the Council is somewhat concerned that an over emphasis on this aspect may militate against the performance of some important contemporary music in Ireland.

In the Report for 1980 reference was made to the passing at the general conference of UNESCO of a motion to initiate a programme of studies into the various aspects of the cultures of the Celtic peoples. During 1981 a meeting of experts on Celtic cultures was held under the auspices of UNESCO in Dublin. Experts from sixteen countries, invited in their private capacities, participated in the meeting. Some twelve proposed projects were agreed and a committee established which will arrange for the publication of a periodical newsletter reporting on the progress of the various initiatives.

Finally, the Council offered special bursaries during 1981 in the context of International Year for Disabled Persons. Grants were provided to the Rehabilitation Institute in Cork to set up a modest facility for the making of video films. The Institute had already done some excellent work in this area with the assistance of Helen Prout who runs the Gurranabraher Film and Drama Workshop in Cork. Additionally, a grant was provided to Gráinne Dunne to study music therapy at the Guildhall School of Music in London. The course is post-graduate and aims to teach the use of music as a therapeutic and remedial aid.

AOSDÁNA

Members of AOSDÁNA at December 1981.

Visual Artists Writers Composers Arthur Armstrong Leland Bardwell Seóirse Bodley Robert Ballagh Samuel Beckett Frank Corcoran John Behan Anthony Cronin Aloys Fleischmann Pauline Bewick Margaretta D'Arcy John Kinsella Basil Blackshaw Eilis Dillon Frederick May Brian Bourke Paul Durcan Jane O'Leary Fergus Bourke Brian Friel Gerard Victory Charles Brady Ernest Gebler James Wilson Michael Bulfin Gerald Hanly John Burke Michael Hartnett Michael Byrne Seamus Heaney James Coleman Aidan Higgins Patrick Collins Pearse Hutchinson Barrie Cooke Denis Johnston Edward Delaney Jennifer Johnston Mary Farl Powers Neil Jordan Martin Gale Molly Keane Tim Goulding Benedict Kiely Patrick Hall Mary Lavin Charles Harper James Liddy Patrick Hickey John McGahern Michael Kane Tom MacIntyre Cecil King Derek Mahon Sonja Landweer M. J. Molloy Louis le Brocquy Paul Muldoon Melanie le Brocquy Val Mulkerns James McKenna Richard Murphy Theo McNab Thomas Murphy Helen Moloney Mairtín Ó Direáin Tony O'Malley Seán Ó Faolain Patrick O'Sullivan Liam O'Flaherty Patrick Pye Desmond O'Grady Yann Renard Goulet Eoghan Ó Tuairisc Patrick Scott James Plunkett Noel Sheridan Sydney Bernard Smith Maria Simonds-Gooding Francis Stuart Camille Souter Anthony C. West Imogen Stuart Rod Tuach Charles Tyrrell Dairine Vanston Michael Warren Alexandra Wejchert Anne Yeats

Helena Zak — The Puzzlement

Visual Arts

The Council's concern to assist, as its first priority, the individual artist is, in practical terms, largely confined to financial assistance. The bursary schemes, complemented by Aosdána, hopefully contribute to a modest level of financial security for artists - a security which only a small number can hope to achieve from their own creative work.

The Council is, of course, aware that these financial provisions are only part of the changes that must occur if artists are to achieve the status in society which the Council believes they deserve. The Council was pleased therefore, to be able to give some assistance to the newly established Association of Artists in Ireland. A major aim of the Association is, in the words of its Chairman the painter Robert Ballagh, to "professionalise the profession". The role which can be played by such an association includes information on social welfare, income tax, VAT and the law as it effects the artist. The Association is considering the establishment of a bank of contracts which could be used in dealings with agents, galleries, purchasers, commissioners and so on.

In a profession where it is close to impossible to earn an adequate living the difficulties of purchasing expensive studio equipment are obvious. This is particularly the case in regard to print-making which paradoxically is the most accessible medium financially for the potential purchaser.

The Council has assisted the Graphic Studio to provide premises, presses and the other basic requirements for printmakers since 1963 but in recent years there has been an expansion of interest in this area which the Graphic Studio with its very small premises could not possibly have catered for. As a result Wicklow Fine Arts Press was established in 1979 and has received some funding from the Council for the last two years. During 1980 a group of artists, some of whom had been associated with the Graphic Studio, got together to negotiate with Dublin Corporation for the use of the Black Church in Dublin as a print studio. The Council provided this group with some money to purchase equipment. Regrettably, the group had not succeeded in securing the Black Church premises by year's end but had found interim premises which they will occupy until the Corporation are in a position to make the Black Church available.

The Council's busaries are still, of course, the most important source of direct funding to individual artists. In 1981 twenty-two artists received assistance. Three of those - Patrick Collins, Gordon Woods and Brian King - received further payments of awards first announced in previous years. Four painters received awards. Gene Lambert and Martin Gale will be equiping their studios while Brian Maguire and Donald Hounam are being assisted to complete particular projects. Two print-makers — James McCreary and Joseph Hanly — are being helped and, like last year, sculptors continue to provide the largest number of awards. Nine sculptors received awards all of them for studio equipment and materials. Three of these - Helen Comerford, Joe Butler and Charles Molloy live and work in Dublin, four - John Burke, Jim Buckley, Vivienne Roche and Helena Zak - in Cork while Tom FitzGerald is from Limerick and Tom Nevin from Galway. Bursaries were awarded to two photographers — Samuel Gallagher and Eilis McCarrick.

Additionally Robert Ballagh the painter won the Marten Toonder Award, Alanna O'Kelly won a new bursary which will enable her to spend three months in a studio in Milan and Kevin Flanagan from Dublin has won a scholarship to study at the National College of Art and Design. This scholarship is administered by the Council on behalf of Dublin Corporation with funds provided by the Corporation. Scholarships are also awarded in music and theatre under this heading, (see pages 23 and 29).

Travel grants for artists have been offered by the Council for a number of years. The Council's Survey on Living and Working Conditions of Artists high-lighted the importance of travel to artists in their work. Four such awards were made to visual artists during the year.

An important innovation in 1981 was the introduction of awards to individual artists by Guinness Peat Aviation, the Shannon-based company which

Vivienne Roche — Off Square

was the generous sponsor of last year's Rose. Eilís O'Connell and Felim Egan received major awards and other awards went to Kathy Prendergast, Audrey Mullins, Michael O'Neill and Aileen McKeogh. An aspect of assistance to artists which is a matter of report each year, but deserves particular mention as a reminder of its effectiveness, is the Council's purchase of works of art, its loan scheme and joint purchase scheme. The Council regularly purchases works by Irish artists which it offers on loan or for sale (on a joint ownership basis) at 50% of the cost to institutions which display the work in places normally accessible to the public. Some thirteen hundred paintings, prints and sculptures have been purchased under the terms of the scheme and approximately two hundred and fifty paintings and sculptures are on loan throughout the country.

The Council's touring exhibitions, although meant primarily to tour contemporary art on a national basis are also of benefit to those artists whose work is included. Three of the four touring shows seen in 1981 are based on the work of contemporary Irish artists. Miles Apart which travelled to ten venues, was based on a contrast between paintings of the Bahamas by Tony O'Malley, made during his visits there, and his paintings of Kilkenny. Drawing Towards was an exhibition of preparatory drawings by Irish artists - Brian Bourke, Michael Farrell, Barrie Cooke, Graham Knuttel, Charlie Harper, Colin Middleton, Nano Reid and F. E. McWilliam - which travelled to six venues and Out of the Shadows was the first major exhibition of the work of Irish photographers. It was also seen at six venues. The fourth show was of nineteenth-century patchwork and was assembled by Alex Meldrum. It proved a particularly popular show. In all there were thirty-two showings of these exhibitions in nineteen centres.

A show which toured to Cork and Belfast was the retrospective of the work of Patrick Scott. The show had been assembled in Dublin by the Douglas Hyde Gallery. A successful show at the gallery during the year was a major exhibition of the work of Edward Kienholz.

A development in the Council's exhibition policy was the number of exhibitions presented in association with other institutions. These were, in 1981 Shapes, an exhibition of sculpture for the blind mounted for the Year of the Disabled, in association with the Bank of Ireland; Svensk Form an exhibition of Swedish design, in association with the Embassy of Sweden; Young Artists from Berlin in association with the Goethe Institute and Spanish Contemporary Painting in association with the Spanish Cultural Institute.

A serious lack of information about Irish art and artists adds to the problems of our artists both here and abroad. The Council therefore welcomed initiatives which were taken by a number of Irish publishing houses in an attempt to fill this gap. Perhaps the most ambitious of these ventures was Louis le Brocquy published by Ward River Press to coincide with the artist's retrospective exhibition in the United States. Goldsmith Press brought the same professional attention to The Art of Brian Bourke while Arlen House and The Crane Bag introduced reproductions of work by Irish artists.

Vivienne Bogan — Stitched Panel

VISUAL ARTS

PURCHASES FOR COLLECTION 1981

Artist/Title & Medium Purchased From John Aiken/White Dust Grid (mixed media on board) Oliver Dowling Gallery David Barker/Drawing of a Garden III (etching) Listowel Exhibition Vivienne Bogan/Stitched Panel No. 2 (collage) Belltable Arts Centre Eithne Carr/Nudes on pastel background (acrylic on canvas) Artist Michael Casey/Hollow Form (elm) Artist Helen Comerford/Gan Teideal (graphite on paper) Oireachtas Exhibition Stephen Conlin/Indian Hunting Trail II (ink on paper) Artist Barrie Cooke/Night Lake Yellow (oil on canvas) David Hendriks Gallery Michael Cullen/Study after Jan van Eyck II (silkscreen) Joseph Hanly Prints Michael Cullen/Big Painting with Cubistic Sky and Other Device (oil on canvas) Project Arts Centre David Crone/Dhá Fhigúir Frithchaite (oil on canvas) Oireachtas Exhibition Anne Crowley/Collage I (mixed media) Artist Felim Egan/Comparison 36 (acrylic on canvas) Oliver Dowling Gallery Felim Egan/Sound Reference I (acrylic on canvas) Oliver Dowling Gallery T. P. Flanagan/Shoot 2 (watercolour) David Hendriks Gallery Andrew Folan/Definition of an Instant (photolithograph) Listowel Exhibition Martin Gale/Bus Stop (oil on canvas) Irish Exhibition of Living Art SamuelGallagher/Kitchen Chair (photograph) Artist Trevor Geoghegan/Deep Space No. 2 (oil on canvas) Lincoln Gallery Charles Harper/Ossessione (watercolour) Tom Caldwell Gallery Brian King/No. 3 Cloon May 15th 12.30p.m. (mixed media) Project Arts Centre Cecil King/Verge (oil on paper) David Hendriks Gallery Graham Knuttel/Birdmen (etching) Wicklow Fine Art Press Peter Knuttel/Lough Dan (etching) Wicklow Fine Art Press Gene Lambert/Specimen (etching) Wicklow Fine Art Press Gene Lambert/Figures 1 (acrylic on canvas) Lincoln Gallery Brian Maguire/Dreams of a Secret Child (mixed media) Lincoln Gallery Brian Maguire /Mother Myth (mixed media) Lincoln Gallery Clement McAleer/Beach Study (pastel on paper) Tom Caldwell Gallery Theresa McKenna/Untitled (tapestry) Exhibition of Visual Art, Limerick Anna McLeod/Untitled (etching) Wicklow Fine Art Press Coilín Murray/There's a split in the infinitive (etching) Listowel Exhibition Tony O'Carroll/Gan Teideal 6 (mixed media) Oireachtas Exhibition Eilís O'Connell/Slate Fan (stainless steel and slate) David Hendriks Gallery Tony O'Malley/The Cloister at Montagu 1978: Paradise Island (oil on canvas) Artist Stephen O'Reilly/and so with ... (etching) Wicklow Fine Art Press E. J. Peters/Behavin' (lithograph) Listowel Exhibition Vivienne Roche/Off Square (watercolour) Exhibition of Visual Art, Limerick Nigel Rolfe/Nine Symbols (mixed media on paper) Tulfarris Art Gallery Patrick Scott/Source (silkscreen) Taylor Galleries Patrick Scott/Arcady III (silkscreen) Taylor Galleries Patrick Scott/Arcady IV (silkscreen) Taylor Galleries Brian Vahey/Untitled (etching) Wicklow Fine Art Press Erik Van der Grijn/Black Pristine XI 1980 (oil on canvas) David Hendriks Gallery Erik Van der Grijn/Noli me Tangere (screenprint) Listowel Exhibition Helena Zak/The Puzzlement (mixed media) Triskel Arts Centre

GRANTS Annual Open Exhibitions £ An tOireachtas 2,940 Claremorris Art Committee 2,500 Exhibition of Visual Art, Limerick 2,900 Independent Artists 11,5 00 Irish Exhibition of Living Art 2,500 Listowel Writers' Week, Art Committee 3,200 Exposure 80 Galleries Cork Arts Society 4,900 Douglas Hyde Gallery 57,500 Gallery of Photography 4,500 Kilkenny Art Gallery Society 1,200 Monaghan County Museum 60 Sligo Art Gallery Society 1,400 Artists' Studios and Organisations Association of Artists in Ireland 3,000 Black Church Print Studio, Dublin 8,000 Graphic Studio, Dublin 11,500 Kells Etching Workshop 500 Visual Arts Centre, Dublin 1,5 00 Wicklow Fine Art Press 1,500 Others Arlen House Press/Artists' Calendar 1,000 Goldsmith Press/The Art of Brian Bourke 2,000 National Trust Archive 2,750 Strokestown & District Development Association 800 The Crane Bag 150 Ward River Press/Louis le Brocquy 1,500 £129,380 DIRECTLY PROMOTED ACTIVITIES General Exhibition Quarterly 4,025 Planning Advice 2,014 Equipment 3,223 Sundries 374 £9,636 GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS Bursaries in Visual Art £ Jim Buckley 600 John Burke 2,000 Joe Butler 2,000 Helen Comerford 2,000 Thomas Fitzgerald 2,000 Martin Gale 3,000 Samuel Gallagher 350 Joseph Hanly 1,600 Donald Hounam 500 Gene Lambert 1,700 Eilis McCarrick 600 James McCreary 1,000 Brian Maguire 2,000 Charles Molloy 1,000 Thomas Nevin 1,200 Vivienne Roche 1,000 Helena Zak 1,100 Studio in Milan Alanna O'Kelly 2,000 Marten Toonder Award Robert Ballagh 3,000 Travel Grants

A discussion in progress at the Independent Artists sculpture workshop in Michael Warren's studio at Letatlin, Co. Wexford.

Catherine Carman 300 Seamus Coleman 300 Michael Kane 330 Ruth McDonnell 150

INTEREST-FREE LOAN

Ward River Press £5,000

JOINT PURCHASE GRANTS Ardtona House School, Churchtown 100 Bishopstown Community School 175 Chríost an Rí, Roscommon 47 College of Industrial Relations, Dublin 225 County Cork VEC 271 Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork 900 Dublin City & County Libraries 215 Dundrum Vocational Education School 100 Irish Institute of Pastoral Liturgy, Carlow 350 Kildare County Council 255 Kilkenny Art Gallery Society 500 Moyne Community School 25 Newtowncashel Tidy Towns' Committee 420 Presentation Convent, Durrow 73 Regional Technical College, Athlone 832 Roscommon County Libraries 300 St. Patrick's Girls School, Foxrock 167 Scoil Moibhí, Glasnevin 90 Shanagolden Vocational School, Limerick 130 Trinity College Gallery, Dublin 230 University College Dublin 154 V.H.I. Board, Dublin 300 £5,859 Exhibitions An Táin — Graphics 232 James Ensor— Graphics 277 Spanish Contemporary Painting 588 Patterns from the Past— Patchwork 3,536 Out of the Shadows— Photography 9,022 Drawing Towards 2,986 Patrick Scott— Retrospective 5,320 F. E. McWilliam— Retrospective 8,970 Tony O'Malley— Miles Apart 8,826 Robert Ballagh— The Artist :s Response to Northern Ireland 708 Shapes— Sculpture 1,782 Arts Council of Northern Ireland Touring Exhibitions 3,037 Exhibition Installation and General Expenses 5,344 Sundries l,082 £51,710

A selection of recently published books which received assistance from the Council during 1981.

Literature

The Report for 1980 commented on the extent to which innovation in the Council's policies for Literature emphasised assistance to the burgeoning Irish publishing industry. Organisations such as CLE (the Irish Book Publishers Association) and Irish Bookhandling Ltd. continued to be funded by the Council in 1981 but innovation, where it has occurred, has been in areas more directly related to the individual artist.

For example, a scheme of Writers' Workshops in Prisons was successfully piloted during the year and the principles of the scheme and an appropriate administrative structure agreed with the Department of Justice. The scheme is similar in intention, though on a more modest scale, to the Council's Writers-in-Schools scheme through which in 1981 67 writers made 334 visits to 264 schools (almost a doubling of the activity of last year).

The Authors' Royalty Fund, first introduced by the Council in 1980 has been growing steadily. Grants and loans were paid to five publishers who gave advances or royalties to twelve authors. The scheme is intended to encourage Irish publishers in the practice of commissioning work by Irish authors.

Patrick Mason, the theatre director, moderated the Writers' Workshop in University College Galway. The workshop examined the problems involved in writing for particular kinds of production such as radio and television. Many of the playwrights who attended, such as Antoine Ó Flatharta, Frank McGuinness and Liam Lynch have since then had plays produced in major theatres.

The opening of a joint Administrative Centre by the Society of Irish Playwrights with the Association of Irish Composers might also be considered among those innovations in 1981 which benefitted the individual artist. The Centre, in Liberty Hall, provides secretarial and photo-copying facilities to members as well as the range of services which both organisations have previously provided to their members.

The Council has recently been considering whether it should provide grants to assist the administration of publishing companies. Gallery Press has been given some small assistance in this area and subject to the availability of finance, this aspect of funding may be developed in future years.

During the year the Council commissioned a technical study on the financial management of Irish publishing. The study, because it is based on detailed financial information and interviews, is confidential to the Council but provides information to the Council on the business, sales performance and management practice of Irish publishers.

During the year thirty-one new titles were published with the financial assistance of the Council. The list of these titles is included with the record of grants to publishers on page 00.

A new publisher — the Children's Press — was established during 1981. Its first publication — Robbers in the House by Carolyn Swift — has been well received and further publications for children are planned.

Ten writers received bursaries from the Council in 1981. Francis Stuart is in the second year of his three-year award. Niall Quinn, the author of Voyovic and Other Stories , receives £5,000 over two years. Two of the winners write in Irish. They are Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Liam Ó Muirthile. The other recipients are Michael Coady, Neil Donnelly, Peter Fallen, Nell McCafferty, Dorothy Nelson and J. Graham Reid.

The Macaulay Fellowship was awarded to Maurice Scully the poet whose book Love Poems and Others was published by Raven Arts Press during the year.

The Council and the Embassy of the United States of America fund the expenses of an Irish participant in the Iowa International Writing Program. Desmond Hogan attended in 1981.

The writer Tony Cafferky also travelled to the 'United States during 1981. He was the winner of the newly established Brendan Behan Memorial Fellowship, which was administred by the Council on behalf of Dublin Corporation and Eastern Washington University, where he will study. The Council has been offering travel grants in

literature since the survey on the Living and Working Conditions of Artists was carried out. Three writers were assisted with minor grants for this purpose in 1981.

AUTHORS' ROYALTY FUND

£ Writer Title Press Loan Grant Eavan Boland Night Feed Arlen House Press 300 300 Mary Rose Callaghan Mothers Arlen House Press 300 300 Emma Cooke A Single Sensation Poolbeg Press 750 Maura Treacy Scenes from a Country Wedding Poolbeg Press 900 Nial Quinn Cafe Cong Wolfhound Press 700 J. B. Keane More Irish Short Stories Mercier Press 250 Rita E. Kelly The Whispering Arch Arlen House Press 600 Mary Lavin The Becker Wives Arlen House Press 450 Conleth O'Connor Behind the Garden Gnomes Arlen House Press 150 150 Paul Durcan New Collection Raven Arts Press 150 150 Anthony Cronin Sonnet Poems Vol. 2 Raven Arts Press 112 113 Michael O'Loughlin Atlantic Blues Raven Arts Press 150 150

Amount paid out in 1981: £1,700

GRANTS Publishers £ Irish Writers Co-operative 8,000 Scenes from an Album, William Trevor Thompsons, Martin Boylan The Book-Thief's Heartbeat, Philip Davidson A Malady, Pierce Butler That London Winter, Leland Bardwell Wolfhound Press 2,000 The Black Soul, Liam O'Flaherty Kelly, Michael Mullen The Fairy-Isle of Coosanure, Frank Egan Dolmen Press 700 High Sacrifice, John F. Deane Gallery Press 4,400 Whale on the Line, Nuala Archer The Rose-Geranium, Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin * Three Sisters, Anton Chekov/Brian Friel Poolbeg Press 5,000 The Road to Bright City, Mairtín Ó Cadhain/Eoghan Ó Tuairisc Patterns, Eithne Strong Scenes from a Country Wedding, Maura Treacy A Single Sensation, Emma Cooke Its Handy When People Don't Die, John McArdle The Pornographer, John McGahern * In This Thy Day, Michael McLaverty * All the King's Men, Anthony C. West Raven Arts Press 4,200 41 Sonnets 82, Anthony Cronin Loss and Gain, Gerard Smith Love Poems and Others, Maurice Scully This Day's Importance, Padraig J. Daly A Dream of Maps, Mathew Sweeney Sidelines, Eoghan Ó Tuairisc Sensualities, Sydney Bernard Smith Children's Press 1,400 Robbers in the House, Carolyn Swift Gill and Macmillan 7,400 *Chronology of the Arts in Ireland Mercier Press 800 More Irish Short Stories, John B. Keane O'Brien Press 1,000 After the Wake, Brendan Behan Claddagh Records 500 Francis Stuart Recording Magazines and Periodicals * Cyphers 1,600 Stony Thursday Book 500 The Beau 500 The Crane Bag 1,300 * Books Ireland 3,000

Organisations and Events Loughborough Conference on Children's Literature 250 National Writers' Workshop, UCG 2,800 North Cork Writers' Committee 200 Poetry Ireland 7,000 Society of Irish Playwrights 400 Society of Irish Playwrights/Association of Irish Composers Administrative Centre 9,500 Writers' Week, Listowel 5,000 Yeats Society, Sligo 1,500 Iowa International Writing Programme 1,600 Publishing Industry Irish Bookhandling Ltd. 13,475 CLÉ (Irish Book Publishers Association) 6,000 Financial Management of Irish Publishing Study 4,500 £94,525 Less: Previous year's grant no longer required (500) £94,025 * In association with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. DIRECTLY PROMOTED ACTIVITIES Writers-in-Schools: Expenditure 20,584 Income (6,832) 13,752 Authors Royalty Fund 1,700 Sundries 16 £15,468 GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS Bursaries in Literature £ Michael Coady 2,000 Neil Donnelly 2,500 Peter Fallon 1,500 Nell McCafferty 1,500 Dorthy Nelson 3,000 Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill 3,000 Liam Ó Muirthile 3,000 Niall Quinn 5,000 J. Graham Reid 2,500

Macaulay Fellowship Maurice Scully 3,000

Travel Grants Philip Casey 350 William David Martin 500 Basil Payne 500

INTEREST-FREE LOANS Wolfhound Press (2) 4,000 Poolbeg Press (2) 30,000 Dolmen Press 15,000

Drama

Of all of the activities funded by the Council the theatre is the most highly structured being dependent on venues, which are costly to maintain, and involving a comparatively high level of employment.

Alterations and improvements in the infrastructure of this art-form therefore can only be medium to long term objectives.

The difficulties in this area are compounded by the pressing need for capital expenditure. Pressures on recurrent expenditure are such that little flexibility is available in budgets for necessarily irregular capital spending. Inflation, for example, seems to run at a higher rate in the arts where the concept of improved productivity has little meaning (fourteen actors are required for a production of Three Sisters in 1981 just as they were when the play was first performed eighty years ago in 1901).

The Council has succeeded in recent years in investing in capital replacement on a modest level. Specific provision for capital was first made in the Council grant-in-aid in 1979 and continued in the following two years. Capital provision in drama over those years has included regular grants to the Abbey Theatre and sums by way of grant or interest free loan for replacement of lighting boards in Cork Opera House and Druid Theatre in Galway.

The most important impact of capital spending in drama has been its effect on the growth of venues outside Dublin.

As well as Druid Theatre, Galway, which received capital grants in 1979 and in 1981 Belltable Arts Centre (which is dealt with in more detail under the heading of arts centres on page 38) received capital grants in 1980 and 1981 and the Hawks Well Theatre in Sligo (which will commence operations in 1982) received assistance in 1981.

This emphasis on theatres outside Dublin is also evident in some of the Council's decisions in recurrent expenditure. The Everyman Theatre in Cork, Siamsa Tíre in Tralee and the Druid Theatre Company in Galway all received a reasonable increase in grant. Increased assistance was provided to Cork Opera House (which also received indirect support when subsidised or guaranteed productions played there).

Growth in the number and professionalism of theatres outside Dublin is potentially the most important development which the Council can assist in the area of theatre. Implementation of such a policy will take time and the effects will probably be measurable only in the long term. Hopefully, when combined with the approach to funding opportunities for pre-production, touring and new Irish plays contained in the Council's Independent Theatre Managements' Scheme, the result will be a far more flexible system which will allow independent companies to be more adventurous in their choice of plays and to make such plays available to a wider audience than was possible in the past.

The Independent Theatre Managements' Scheme is now in its third year of operation. Seven production companies received assistance under the terms of the scheme in 1981.

It is notable that in 1981 no less than twenty seven new works by Irish playwrights were produced with Arts Council assistance. Details of these works, their authors and production companies are listed below on page 25.

The importance of providing training for actors has always been clear to the Council. It is not, however, easy to find finance for this. The Council was coincidentally able to take two initiatives in this area in 1981. Firstly provision for in- service training was provided in the grant to the Abbey. Also, on the basis of a recommendation in the Benson Report, the Council has established a working party on theatre training with a view to the establishment of a theatre training board.

Scholarships in theatre, as a percentage of the total expenditure on drama, represent a very modest sum of money but they can have an important impact. In 1981 two such awards were made: the Stage Design Scholarship went to Gay Dowling who travelled to Paris to study marionettes and masks. A new category of award, an Apprentice Stage Technician's Bursary, was awarded to Kieran Casey from Cork. He will be working in Cork Opera House for a period and then in Dublin.

Alan Stanford and Derek Chapman in "Amadeus" at the Gate.

NEW IRISH PLAYS PRODUCED IN 1981 WITH ARTS COUNCIL ASSISTANCE

Play Author Production Company All in Favour Said No Bernard Farrell Abbey Theatre Scenes from an Album William Trevor Abbey Theatre Childish Things Seán McCarthy Peacock Theatre Fiche Blian ag Fás 0 Súillebháin/Ó Dalaigh Peacock Theatre A Rogue of Low Degree Eamonn Kelly Peacock Theatre Gaeilgeorí Antoine Ó Flatharta Peacock Theatre The Silver Dollar Boys Neil Donnelly Peacock Theatre The Cat's Opera Eilís Dillon Peacock Theatre Divisions Shane Connaughton Oscar/Dublin Theatre Festival The Informer O'Flaherty/Murphy Pearson/Dublin Theatre Festival Jennifer's Vacation Robin Glendenning Gate/Dublin Theatre Festival A Keane Sense of Humour Keane/O'Donnell Gemini/Dublin Theatre Festival The Wind that Shook the Barley Declan Burke Kennedy Focus/Dublin Theatre Festival Somewhere between Frogs & Princes Barbara McNamara Moving Theatre/Dublin Theatre Festival The Fabulous Journey of McCon Glin Blinco/O'Shaughnessy Dublin Theatre Festival The Ups & Downs of Dice & Shaker Fergus Fay Theatre for Children Down All the Days Brown/Sheridan Oscar Theatre Three Sisters Chekov/Friel Field Day Production Company Dan Paddy Andy Keane/McCarthy World Theatre Productions Revue Moving Theatre Moving Theatre Outside-In Moving Theatre Moving Theatre Krieg Liam Lynch Project Arts Centre Not Just Yet Art Ó Briain Team Educational Theatre Round & Round the Garden Jim Nolan Team Educational Theatre 70% Proof Sean McCarthy Team Educational Theatre The Toymaker's Tale Grapevine Grapevine Arts Centre An Scadán Dearg Eagarthóir: Sean McCarthy An Darner

GRANTS Annual Grants £ Abbey and Peacock Theatres, Dublin 932,300 Irish Theatre Company 287,100 Gate Theatre, Dublin 214,600 An Darner, Dublin 49,500 Cork Opera House 35,000 Cork Theatre Company 3,000 Dublin Theatre Festival 82,000 Druid Theatre, Galway 32,000 Everyman Playhouse, Cork 30,200 Focus Theatre, Dublin 19,500 Hntsize Puppet Theatre, Dublin 6,000 Siamsa Tire, Tralee 19,000 Hawk'sWell Theatre, Sligo 2,000

Independent Theatre Managements' Scheme Fabulous Journey Theatre Company 874 Field Day Productions 14,190 Four-in-One Players/Peter Sheridan Management 6,500 Noel Pearson Productions 5,000 Theatre for Children 2,500 World Theatre Productions 8,000 £1,749,264 Less: Previous year's grant no longer required (270) £1,748,994

GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS Scholarship in Stage Design £ Gay Dowling 2,300

Apprentice Stage Technician's Bursary Kieran Casey 2,000

INTEREST-FREE LOANS Waterford Theatre Royal 10,000 Noel Pearson Productions 5,000

Music

This report has already, in the sections dealing with Visual Arts and Literature, referred to decisions of the Council to provide some funds to artists' organisations in the various areas. An association for composers has existed for some time having been established in 1976. Indeed even before then there had been groupings, formal and informal, of composers working in Ireland. Grants to the Association of Young Irish Composers and the Association of Irish Composers have been provided by the Council since 1975, principally for the holding of concerts of the work of their members.

The opportunities for Irish composers to have their music performed or commissioned have always been distressingly few in Ireland. They have, however, improved in recent years. The biennial Dublin Festival of 20th Century Music is now complemented by Sonorities, a festival of modern music in Northern Ireland. Both commission works or make awards for new work. Cork International Choral Festival commissions work as do the Performing Right Society and the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society. Both the Irish Ballet Company and Dublin City Ballet have commissioned works and other opportunities come from religious and commercial bodies. Perhaps the major innovation, however, has been the Council's Composers Commision Fund, which was introduced in 1980. Although the scale of the works commissioned (and the subsequent size of the fee) is rather modest the scheme does allow a reasonably large number of works to be produced each year. In 1981 there were ten pieces composed and performed (these are listed on page 29) in comparison with six pieces performed in 1980. Additionally the Council continues to award a bursary to a composer each year.

These new opportunities, though welcome, still do not allow those few composers working in Ireland — the Association has thirty members — to practise their profession on a full-time basis or to have any real prospect of making a living from their work. Much additional work remains to be done before that desirable objective can be attained.

Some of the work is being undertaken by the Association of Irish Composers itself. The Council was able to assist the Association to establish, jointly with the Society of Irish Playwrights, an administrative centre which will provide, among other things, a photo-copying facility which should be of considerable benefit to composers.

Most important of all, undoubtedly, is the Association's decision to establish an Irish Contemporary Music Resource Centre. The Centre will assemble, maintain and keep up to date a comprehensive collection of scores and tapes of the works of members. Information from RTE, BBC, the Music Departments of University College Cork and Trinity College, Dublin, the Music Association of Ireland and a variety of other sources including of course the composers themselves is being assembled by a Research Officer, Bernard Harrison, (who was appointed in mid 1981) with the intention of publishing an extensively cross-referenced catalogue.

The potential value of this catalogue and the library of scores and tapes should be of inestimable value to the growth of interest in and the awareness of the work of Irish composers.

Another important innovation in the area of music in 1981 was the publication of Soundpost a new music magazine which appears bi-monthly and is published by the Music Association of Ireland. The magazine, which is attractively laid out, includes reviews, interviews, a diary of forthcoming events and so on. Soundpost has replaced Counterpoint, the newsletter produced by the MAI. This organisation itself is considering prospects and plans for the future. A substantial increase in its grant for 1981 enabled the MAI to expand its concert programme by increasing the list of artists it makes available to its members. Among these artists in 1981 were the Douglas Gunn Ensemble, Dublin Baroque Players, Piet Sluis Jazz, Dé Danann, and Charles Lynch the pianist and typical of the venues performed in were Carlow, Greystones and Tullamore.

The Esbart Mare Nostrum dancers from Barcelona performing in the streets of Cork during the Cork International Choral and Folk Dance Festival.

Fourteen scholarships were awarded by the Council in the category of Instrumentalists and Singers. Derek Hannigan, clarinet; Hugh Tinney, piano; Rita Manning, violin and Mary O'Hanlon, violin received continuing payments for awards first announced in previous years.

The Council decided in 1980 to continue its assistance to the young cellist, Daire Fitzgerald, for a further three years. The Council has committed itself to the musical education of this exceptionally gifted young musician in the longer term and a substantial grant was made in 1981 for her.

Susan Briscoe (violin), Padriag Cusack ('cello), Paul O'Hanlon (violin) and Rosalind Maguire (piano) received grants to allow them to continue their studies.

Emma Jane Murphy, who is eleven years old, was assisted to attend the Yehudi Menuhin School to study 'cello and Virginia Ken, the soprano, was assisted in taking occasional coaching in London with her teacher Rudolf Piernay.

The Music Projects Bursary is a comparatively new one which has only been awarded on one previous occasion. This year it went to Robert Houlihan — the first time in a number of years that the Council has assisted a conductor.

A new award, also referred to in the sections on Dance and Visual Arts, is the Dublin Corporation Arts Scholarship. Ethna Robinson won the scholarship in music and is studying at the Guildhall School of Music.

COMPOSERS COMMISSION FUND GRANTS

Composer Commissioned by Amount John Kinsella New Irish Chamber Orchestra 860 John Buckley New Irish Chamber Orchestra 860 James Wilson Festival in Great Irish Houses 860 John Gibson Dublin Baroque Players 660 Gerald Barry Writers' Week, Listowel 530 Eric Sweeney Spanish Cultural Institute 330 Jane O'Leary Comhceadal na gCór 330 Douglas Gunn Westport Arts Week 330 Micheál Ó Súilleabháin Dublin Baroque Players 130 Noel Kelehan Gorey Arts Centre 700 Jerome de Bromhead Irish Guitar Society 140 £5,730

GRANTS Orchestras/Ensembles £ Concorde 400 Contemporary Chamber Group 200 Douglas Gunn Ensemble 1,321 Dublin Philharmonic Society 1,500 Dublin Sinfonia 600 Henry Purcell Consort 2,781 New Irish Chamber Orchestra 35,000 Ulster Orchestra 30,163 Concert Promotion Clifden Music Society 200 Clonakilty Music Society 446 Cork Municipal School of Music 368 Cork Orchestral Society 2,250 Drogheda Arts Group 350 Galway Music Association 750 Irish Georgian Society 275 Kilkenny Music Group 290 Limerick Music Association 4,200 Michael Van Dessel Concert Committee, Dundalk 100 Music for Galway 3,800 Portlaoise Music Club 150 Sligo Music Association 1,300 Waterford Music Club 894 Choral Groups £ Culwick Choral Society, Dublin 1,400 Cumann Náisiúnta na gCór 6,600 Nás na Rí Singers 150 Our Lady's Choral Society, Dublin 900 Tallaght Choral Society 669 Third Day Chorale, Dublin 300 University College Cork Chamber Choir and Orchestra 800 Waterford Oratorio Society 800 Wicklow Choral Society 1,200 Festivals Cork International Choral and Folk Dance Festival 17,500 Festival in Great Irish Houses 5,000 Killarney Bach Festival (1980) 750 Limerick Music Association (Bartok Festival) 2,000 Terenure Summer Festival 175 Other Association of Irish Composers 1,700 Irish Contemporary Music Resource Centre 19,500 Music Association of Ireland 24,600 Soundpost 4,500 Writers' Week, Ustowel 800 £176,682

GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS Scholarships for Instrumentalists and Singers £ Colette McGahon (voice) 2,000 Susan Briscoe (violin) 2,000 Paul O'Hanlon (violin) 2,000 Padriag Cusack ('cello) 2,000 Rosalind Maguire (piano) 1,000 Emma Jane Murphy ('cello) 1,000 Virginia Ken (voice) 500 Una Ní Chanainn ('cello) 350 Áine Ní Dhúill (concert harp) 350 Music Projects Bursary Robert Houlihan 600

DIRECTLY PROMOTED ACTIVITIES

Composers Commission Fund £ (Payments — 1980 and 1981) 6,360 Sundries (351) £6,009

Traditional Music

The difficulties which had developed between Comhaltas Ceóltóirí Éireann and the Council and had been noted in last year's report have, fortunately, been eased. Considerable contact between the officials of the two organisations during the year has led to better understanding of the problems faced by both and a better relationship has resulted. During the year assistance was provided to Comhaltas for Seisiún — through which performances of traditional music take place in Tithe Cheoil and hotels throughout the country. In 1981 there were forty such venues and three hundred and twenty performances. The Council also gave an interest-free loan to assist with the building of a new auditorium at the organisation's headquarters in Monkstown in Dublin.

Three organisations in traditional music, which had not been assisted in 1980, received grants from the Council in 1981. Ceol a journal of Irish music, was last assisted by the Council in 1975 and was first assisted in 1967. The magazine, which is produced and edited by Breandán Breathnach has been in existence since 1963. He has always aspired to quarterly publication but this has not often been possible. The Council's grant is intended to try and make regular publication possible.

The Council also provided assistance in 1981 to the Folk Music Society of Ireland. The Society was formed in 1971 and received some assistance from the Council in that year and in some other years since then for the publication of an annual journal Éigse Ceol Tíre. In 1981, however, the Council provided financial assistance towards the society's programme of recitals and lectures for the first time. Lectures on religious folksong, on Irish warpipes and on Welsh folk music as well as recitals of music from Irish islands and by such noted players as John Kelly formed part of the very successful series.

Busaries in traditional music were awarded by the Council for the first time in 1981. Three awards were made under the heading of Projects in Traditional Music. Nicholas Carolan is compiling a discography of Irish music, Maire Ni Chathasaigh will be collecting songs in the Beara peninsula and Donncha Ó Maidín will be doing research work on double-jigs. On an experimental basis, the piper Séamus Ennis visited schools in the Dublin area to play and talk about the music tradition.

GRANTS Festivals £ Cork Folk Festival 500 Drogheda Folk Festival 750 Féile Oriel 350 Féile Pan Ceilteach 1,500 Letterkenny International Folk Festival (1980 and 1981) 3,750 Willy Clancy Summer School 2,000 Organisations Ceol 900 Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann 51,120 Cumann na bPíobairí, Corcaigh 200 Folk Music Society of Ireland 1,200 Irish Pipe Band Association 600 Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe/Seo Samhraidh 2,200 £65,070 GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS Nicholas Carolan 1,500 Maire Ní Chathasaig 1,500 Donncha Ó Maidín 2,000 DIRECTLY PROMOTED ACTIVITIES Traditional Musicians in Schools 175 Tape Archive 318 £493 INTEREST-FREE LOAN Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann 50,000

Martyn Hill and Geoffrey Blower in Studio Operas production of Britten's "Albert Herring". Opera

The particular stress which the Council lays on the pursuit of high standards of performance in opera, particularly when combined with the high costs of the production of opera, constitute a powerful restraint on any impetus for change. Change too often implies risk and in a business where the mounting of any production is a substantial enough risk further innovation can seem foolhardy.

In the light of this it is particularly gratifying to note than in the last four years there has been both a dramatic increase in the number of operatic productions available to Irish audiences and a substantial increase in the number of opportunities available to Irish singers.

Until 1978 the pattern of production of opera was well established with the Dublin Grand Opera Society providing seven or eight productions each year in two seasons and Wexford Festival Opera providing a further three.

Irish National Opera provided the valuable service of touring one production to towns throughout Ireland. INO's production, performed with piano accompaniment was the main opportunity for Irish singers to perform the major operatic repertoire. Some six to ten singers could be employed in each production.

Almost certainly the main cause of the changes that have occured in recent years is the growing pool of Irish singers. In 1978 Kilkenny Chamber Opera was established followed in 1979 by the Wicklow Opera Group.

During 1981 seventeen operas were performed. Seven of these were cast entirely from Irish singers. The Wedding is a new opera written by the late A. J. Potter with the assistance of an Arts Council bursary. It was premiered by Irish National Opera with the RTE Concert Orchestra in the Abbey Theatre in June 1981. Irish National Opera also performed Rossini's Barber of Seville on its usual circuit of towns throughout Ireland. There were fourteen performances of the opera. Kilkenny Chamber Opera produced two operas — Cosi fan Tutti by Mozart and Elisir d'amore by Donizetti. Wicklow Opera Group also produced two operas— The Merry Wives of Windsor by Nicolai and The Two Widows by Smetana. Finally a particularly interesting innovation was a performance of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro by Young Irish Artists who represent a new generation of young singers. The production, which was directed by Ben Barnes and designed by Monica Frawley, proved extremely popular.

These seven productions between them represented forty-eight performances which gave opportunities to twenty Irish singers.

The numbers of such singers is, of course, likely to increase in the coming years as students, such as those on Arts Council scholarships abroad, complete their training. Nine such students were attending courses during 1981.

An important event during the year, which is also evidence of the continuing fruitful relationship between the Arts Councils north and south, was the visit of Belfast's Studio Opera to Dublin. They performed Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring and Offenbach's La Belle Helene.

While conscious of the need to proceed with caution the Council is naturally anxious to ensure that the increasing number of talented young Irish singers who are committed to the difficult task of making a career in their chosen profession are encouraged to do so by whatever means lie within the Council's power.

Of course, new initiatives will be additional to the well established work of both the Dublin Grand Opera Society and Wexford Festival Opera where the pursuit and maintenance of high standards will continue to be the guiding motivation behind the Arts Council's funding. GRANTS £ Dublin Grand Opera Society 56,005 Irish National Opera 19,590 Kilkenny Chamber Opera 4,750 Studio Opera Group, Belfast 7,000 Waterford Festival of Light Opera 8,500 Wexford Festival 56,400 Wicklow Opera Group 1,800 Young Irish Artists 4,000 £158,045

Judy Cole and Joan Davis of Dublin Contemporary Dance in "Just Stories".

Dance

Dublin City Ballet, which benefits greatly from the personal patronage of its founder director Mr. Louis O'Sullivan, received increased support from the Council in 1981. Support for the work of Dublin Contemporary Dance Theatre was also increased to meet the growth and development of this organisation.

Essential elements of further growth in dance, which the Council has been anxious to promote, are choreography and contemporary music scores for dance.

As one modest means of contributing to these elements of the development of dance the Council gave bursaries to the choreographer, Anne Courtney, and the composer, John Buckley, to attend a two-week course in England run by Creative Dance Artists Ltd. Merce Cunningham and John Cage directed the course.

Another attempt to encourage choreography was not as successful. The Council advertised a bursary in choreography for 1981 which, unfortunately, was not awarded.

Dublin City Ballet introduced a substantial shift in its approach during 1981 with a change from the largely classical repertoire of its first year to modern work.

For the second year running scholarships in dance were awarded exclusively to male dancers. Kilian O'Callaghan and Daire Ó Dunlaing received assistance to allow them to continue courses in the Royal Ballet School in London which they had begun last year with scholarships from the Council. Andrew Wilson received an award to study in the Doreen Bird College of Theatre Dance in Kent in England. Michael Sherin received a travel grant to attend the Rambert School of Ballet in London.

Among the adjudicators for the dance awards was Peter Brinson. On his suggestion in discussions after the adjudication, a proposal for two seminars on the future for dance in Ireland was brought to the Council. The seminars were held in June and October and proved very successful.

One of Dublin Corporation's three scholarships was awarded to Anne Maher, a dancer, to enable her to study in Monaco. The scholarships, which are funded by Dublin Corporation, are administered by the Council.

GRANTS IR£ Irish Ballet Company 236,200 Cork Ballet Company 2,000 Dublin City Ballet 40,000 Dublin Contemporary Dance Theatre 6,000 Gaye Tanham Dance Company 198 Irish Mime Group 2,500 286,898 Less: Previous year's grant no longer required (629) £286,269 GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS Scholarships in Dance Kilian O'Callaghan 2,000 Daire Ó Dunlaing 2,000 Andrew Wilson 1,000 Travel Grant Michael Sherin 500

A scene from Robert Wynne-Simmons "The Outcasts".

Film

Robert Wynne-Simmons won the Council's Film Script Award — valued at £30,000 " for his script The Outcasts. Through this award the Council has now funded five fiction films by independent film-makers. Applications for the award, in the same period, however, have totalled 109 and the Council has always been aware that its resources for film production have borne little or no relationship to need.

With the advent of Bord Scannán na hÉireann, which has some limited, (though perhaps more realistic) funds available, the role of the Council in film production requires some review.

The Council advertised in 1981 (to be awarded in 1982) a second award for non-fiction subjects "with an emphasis on film as a visual art" which is valued at £25,000 and a doubling of the value of the fiction award to £60,000.

The Film Board was, of course, partially appointed during the year and provided substantial funding for Angel a film written and directed by Neil Jordan.

However, the role of the Board remained unclear at year's end. The Arts Council persists in its view that the funding of film-making by the state should be primarily undertaken for cultural reasons and that return on investment should remain a secondary, though desirable aim.

Film Directions, the magazine published by the Arts Council and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, continued to be published throughout 1981 despite the difficulties noted in the report for 1980. The Council however has ceased to act as joint publisher although, of course, continuing to subsidise those copies sold in the south.

Cork Film Festival, at the request of the Council, embarked in 1981 on a major review of its policies. The Festival is providing the Council with a three-year plan which will make proposals to resolve its many problems — artistic, financial and administrative.

The National Film Institute has continued its expansion — a Director was appointed during the year — as has the Federation of Irish Film Socieities which now has fifty societies throughout the country.

GRANTS Film Production £ Robert Wynne-Simmons (Film Script Award 1981) 30,000 Cathal Black - Our Boys Completion 4,500 Carlo Gebler (Film Script Development Award) 300 Pat Murphy (Film Script Development Award) 300 Helen Quinn (Film Script Development Award) 300 Organisations Cork Film Festival 36,000 Federation of Irish Film Societies 12,000 National Film Institute 16,000 £99,400 DIRECTLY PROMOTED ACTIVITIES Film Directions 4,148 Purchase of Film Prints 989 Sundries 132 £5,269

Arts Centres and Festivals

The most important event during the year was the opening in April of Belltable Arts Centre. Capital funding of the project was shared by Shannon Free Airport Development Company, Shannonside Tourism, Limerick Corporation, Limerick County Council and the Arts Council. The Council is particularly delighted with the extensive local involvement in the Centre.

The new Centre has a theatre of 314 seats, a gallery and in the basement, Peter's Cell, which includes a small gallery, space for readings, music events and a restaurant. With Bríd Dukes as administrator, the Centre's programme has been a considerable success, transforming the arts in Limerick and the Mid-West.

As the Centre's spaces are of good economic size, there is little need for revenue funding from the Council. The Centre opened its theatre programme with Faith Healer by Brian Friel performed by the Abbey Theatre Company.

The Grapevine Arts Centre toured its young persons' play The Toy-Maker's Tale with great success all over the country.

At Wexford Arts Centre, Movement Month in June was a notable achievement, the visit of the Flight Contemporary Dance Company from Denmark being a highlight.

Project Arts Centre continued its programme of producing contemporary work. Their two Centre-originated plays — Krieg by Liam Lynch, directed by Patrick Mason and the striking production of Bent by Martin Sherman, directed by Michael Scott — were particularly successful. Seamus Coleman presented two works which caused great debate — the theatre performance Now and Then and the video drama So Different ... and Yet! Womens' Images of Men, an exhibition of paintings and sculptures imported from the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, was among the Centre's most important exhibitions.

The principle development in the area of Festivals was concerned with new festivals in small towns. These occurred in Clonmel, Mallow and Newcastle West.

GRANTS Arts Centres £ Grapevine Arts Centre, Dublin 21,000 Project Arts Centre, Dublin 115,000 Triskel Arts Centre, Cork 15,000 Tuam Theatre Guild and Arts Centre 3,000 *Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig 40,500 Wexford Arts Centre 40,000 Arts Festivals Arts Alliance Mallow 100 Galway Arts Festival 3,000 Gorey Arts Centre (Festival) 9,300 Kerry Arts Group 140 Kilkenny Arts Week 8,000 Newcastle West Arts Festival 450 Westport Arts Festival 1,400 £256,890

INTEREST-FREE LOANS Belltable Arts Centre £18,000

*In association with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland

Education

Major progress in the development of the arts in education is dependent primarily on the Department of Education.

The Council recognises that substantial changes will take time but it is nonetheless disappointing to have to say that nothing of note has occurred in the year under review. This is not to say that relationships with officials of the Department have not remained excellent — their practical assistance in the realisation of some of the Council's own plans has been invaluable. The Council, however, realises that its own schemes are largely intended to increase awareness of the arts in education and that real change, if it is to occur, is in the hands of the Minister and his Department.

The Council's own programme of activities in the arts in education has made some progress over the year.

The schemes of Prints-in-Schools and Murals-in-Schools which were piloted in 1980 were extended nationally in 1981. The murals scheme (now titled Paint on the Wall) has been particularly successful. Fifty-nine primary schools throughout the country (thirty of them in Dublin city and county) have had murals painted by their pupils under the direction of artists. The bulk of the artists fees are paid by the Council although the schools make a contribution. The scheme seems set to expand even further in the coming years.

The other scheme, the Prints-in-Schools scheme, is gradually being established. Under the scheme county libraries purchase a set of prints — etchings, lithographs, silkscreens and so on — which have been assembled by the Council and offer them on loan to schools in their area. During 1981 the scheme worked very successfully in County Clare where there were twenty-four loans made to post-primary schools. By the end of the year ten county libraries had expressed a desire to take part in the scheme. In order to meet this demand the Council commissioned ten artists to produce prints for schools. The artists were Ruth Brandt, Alice Hanratty, Mary Farl Powers, James Allen, Andrew Folan, John Kelly, Michael Kane, Maria Simonds-Gooding, Patrick Pye, Patrick Hickey, Moya Bligh and James McCreary. A general invitation to submit work was also issued to artists which resulted in twenty-nine artists submitting one hundred and eighty-four prints for possible purchase. Forty-four of these were bought for the scheme.

A third Arts Council scheme to provide teaching aids in the visual arts was introduced during the year. A slide pack of work by contemporary Irish artists, which is the first of a series of eight such packs, was produced and is on sale to schools. The pack deals with landscape painting, containing samples of work by such artists as Colin Middleton, Patrick Collins and Camille Souter. The works were selected by Frances Ruane who also wrote the commentaries on the artists and their paintings which are represented on twenty slides.

This pack will be followed by others dealing with such subjects as sculpture in public places, stained glass, portraiture, individual painters and sculptors, architecture and print-making. John Behan and Nicola Gordon Bowe have been commissioned to select works for the sculpture pack and the stained glass pack respectively.

Of course most Arts Council grants in the area of education go to other organisations. Mention should be made of two organisations in the music area whose activities expanded last year — the Music Association of Ireland School Recital Scheme and Ceol Chumann na nÓg.

The Music Association of Ireland School Recital Scheme organised two hundred and forty-six recitals in post-primary schools in 1981. Fifty-eight schools participated for the first time during the year. Performers included the pianist Eithne Tinney, the flautist Niamh Cusack and the Georgian Brass Ensemble. This is a most effective scheme which the Council has been anxious to encourage. Interestingly, the main growth area for the scheme was Cork.

The region of the country showing an increase interest in the work of Ceol Chumann na nÓg was the

Midlands and the work of the Arts Education Organiser for the region, Bernadette Cleary, contributed greatly to this.

A scheme for the introduction of visual artists into schools was piloted in Scoil Naithí, Ballinteer by the sculptor Colm Brennan. The scheme involved the artist working on a piece for the school, progress on which was documented by the children. The effectiveness of the idea was being evaluated during the year.

At post-primary level there is a noticeable fall in the number of students continuing with their studies of visual art and music following the Intermediate Certificate. In an effort to counter this, the Council, with the co-operation of the examinations Branch of the Department of Education, issued a specially designed bookmarker with a message highlighting the value of arts subjects, particularly for teacher training.

GRANTS Courses £ County Kilkenny Vocational Education Committee, Sculpture Workshop 150

County Westmeath Vocational Education Committee, Arts Education Programme 100 Dublin Boy Choristers Summer School 200 Irish Dance Education Association 274 National Youth Council 400 Ormond Music 800 Peoples' College, Dublin 600 Teachers' Centre, Limerick 400 Music Ceol Chumann na nÓg 4,500 Cork Youth Orchestra 500 Dublin Chamber Music Group 359 Music Association of Ireland/Schools Recitals 3,800 Drama Dublin Youth Theatre 2,500 Visual Arts Galway Corporation, Mural Project 100 Gurranabrather Youth, Film and Drama Workshop 150 Scoil Naithí, Sculpture in Schools Project 300 £15,133 DIRECTLY PROMOTED ACTIVITIES Murals-in-Schools Expenditure 18,091 Income (4,490) 13,601 Print Lending Scheme 10,394 Slide Packs Expenditure 19,667 Income (405) 19,262 Courses 1,565 Schools Promotions 3,447 Sundries 741 £49,010 GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS Bursary for a teacher with an Arts Specialisation Catherine Johnston £3,305

Members of the public join in the making of a weaving at Dungloe with the aid of Neighbourhood Open Workshops.

Community Arts

An increase of expenditure in Community Arts of approximately seventy per cent was accounted for largely by increases to the professional community arts groups.

Moving Theatre, which was first assisted by the Council in 1980, sees the provision of access to the arts as one of its most important motivations. They play to local communities in school halls or similar community venues and have an emphasis on productions about topical issues and problems.

TEAM Educational Theatre has been in existence for a number of years. They had three new productions in 1981 — 90% Proof, a play about the dangers of alcoholism and two one-act plays Round and Round the Garden and Not Just Yet.

There were some increases to the other organisations in community arts as well. Waterford Arts-for-AU project which received a small grant in 1980 had an increase which enabled them to expand their activities. Theatre performances in pubs and a number of local exhibitions demonstrate the emphasis on finding new audiences for the arts which underlines much of this group's work.

Raven Arts in Finglas (who, in a different guise, have been one of the most prolific publishers of poetry in recent years) organise a festival in the area which has been particularly successful.

The Council has assisted Feiseanna for a number of years. During 1981 the Council commissioned a report- on the merits and objectives of Feiseanna which will be considered early in 1982. The Benson Report on the Arts in Education, published by the Council in 1979, suggested that the Council should not fund competitions for young children. Such competitions are, of course, an important and well-supported element of Feiseanna.

GRANTS

Professional Groups £ Moving Theatre, Dublin 25,000 TEAM Educational Theatre, Dublin 33,000 Neighbourhood Open Workshops, Belfast 2,250 Multi-Media An Tóstal, Drumshanbo 600 Dundalk Maytime Festival 7,250 Féile Ealaíon na nÓg, Carna 200 Liberties Festival, Dublin 300 Living City Group, Dublin 300 Raven Arts, Dublin 500 Waterford Arts for All 1,100 Women's Work Festival, Limerick 500 Visual Arts Ballymun News 250 Film Dublin Cine Club 200 Music Dublin Baroque Players 773 Dublin Orchestral Players 600 Feis Ceoil, Dublin 1,700 Feis Ceoil, Sligo 600 Feis Maitiu, Corcaigh 500 Dance Dublin Ballet Club 500 £76,123

Regional Arts

The various Regional Arts Officers and Regional Arts Committees are now well established and substantial work is being done in each area.

In the Mid-West Marian FitzGibbon has been involved in assisting existing local activities as well as encouraging new events. The Newcastle West Arts Weekend, which received some funding from the Council, was among these initiatives. She has also been starting her own programmes, for example, an Art-in-Schools scheme which toured an exhibition of the work of local artists around schools in the area.

The touring of exhibitions has occurred in many of the regional areas. Martin Quigley in the South-East toured a number of shows including an interesting exhibition of primitive Haitian paintings.

Michael McMullin in Donegal showed an exhibition assembled by Derek Hill in Letterkenny and Derry. TEAM (the theatre-in-education company) and Ceol Chumann na nÓg (the organisation which brings the schools to live music concerts) visited Donegal with his assistance. The better co-ordination of the activities of groups such as these is one of the tasks which the Regional Arts Officers can most effectively undertake.

John O'Mahony in Cork/Kerry has introduced a newsletter giving information on arts activities in the region. Similar newsletters exist in other regions.

Helen Bygrove in Galway/Mayo paid particular attention during the year to the community and amateur arts in the region and was particularly involved in the development of art classes.

The value of Regional Arts Officers (the desirability of having such officers was pointed out in the Richards Report of 1976) is rapidly becoming apparent and it is clear that they will play an increasingly important role in the development of the arts in the years to come.

The role of the Regional Development Organisations in encouraging this work has been noted in previous reports. The role of local authorities, an increasing number of which provide funding for the arts, is also deserving of note.

GRANTS £ Donegal Regional Development Organisation 5,840 Galway-Mayo Regional Development Organisation 8,250 Mid-West Regional Development Organisation 12,415 Cork-Kerry Regional Development Organisation 7,829 South-East Regional Development Organisation 8,140 £42,474

Capital

GRANTS

Drama £ Abbey Theatre, Dublin 18,844 Eblana Theatre, Dublin (Gemini Productions) 3,900

Druid Theatre, Galway 3,000 Gate Theatre, Dublin 3,500 Hawk's Well Theatre, Sligo 85,000

Dance Mid-West Ballet Workshop 2,000

Arts Centres Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig 40,000

Visual Arts Visual Arts Centre, Dublin 4,000 £160,244

Barrie Cooke — Night Lake Yellow

An Chomhaırle Ealaíon

ACCOUNTS for the year ended 31st December 1981

Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General

I have examined in accordance with approved auditing standards the following Account and Balance Sheet which, as required by the Arts Act 1951, are in the form approved by the Minister for Finance. I have obtained all the information and explanations which I considered necessary for the purpose of my audit.

In my opinion •- (a) proper books of account have been kept by An Chomhairle and the following Account and Balance Sheet are in agreement with them; and

(b) The Account and Balance Sheet together with notes 1 to 9 give a true and fair view of the transactions of An Chomhairle for the year ended 31st December 1981 and of the state of its affairs on that date.

P. L. McDonnelI Comptroller and Auditor General 8th November 1982

INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT Year ended 31st December 1981

1980 £ Notes £ £ Income 3,000,000 Oireachtas Grant-in-Aid (1) 3,750,000

100,000 Special Border Areas Programme Fund (2) 50,000 72,501 Other Grants (3) 92,285 20,973 Sundry Income 21,386 3,913,671 3,193,474

Expenditure 2,946,928 General Expenditure on the arts (4) 3,641,776 16,326 Transfer to Capital Account (5) 14,918 250,654 Administration (6) 315,496 3,972,190 3,213,908

(20,434) Deficit for the year (58,519) 27,071 Surplus brought forward 6,637 £ 6,637 (Deficit)/Surplus at 31st December 1981 £ (51,882) Notes 1 to 9 form part of these accounts.

James White Chairman

Colm Ó Briain Director

18th August 1982

BALANCE SHEET AT 31st DECEMBER 1981

31/12/80 £ Notes £ 64,941 Fixed Assets (5) 79,859 70,269 Net Assets of Trust Funds (7) 74,101 118,109 Interest Free Loans (8) 177,070 505 Prize Bonds 505

Current Assets 60,202 Debtors 81,042 62,495 Grants paid in advance 15,800 6,280 Cash at bank – 128,977 96,842

Current Liabilities 57,257 Creditors 54,981 183,697 Grants and guarantees outstanding 164,301 – Bank overdraft 107,017 240,954 326,299

(111,977) Net Current Liabilities (229,457) £141,847 £102,078

Represented by: 64,941 Capital Account (5) 79,859 70,269 Trust Funds (7) 74,101 6,637 Income and Expenditure Account: Deficit (51,882) £141,847 £102,078

Notes 1 to 9 form part of these accounts.

James White Chairman

Colm Ó Briain Director

18th August 1982

NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS

Note 1: Accounting Policies (i) Oireachtas Grant Income shown as Oireachtas Grant-in-Aid is the actual cash received from the Vote for An Chomhairle Ealaíon. (ii) Fixed Assets Fixed assets are shown in the Capital Account at cost, less sales and items written off. Fixed assets are not depreciated. (iii) Expenditure on office furniture, fittings and equipment is written off in the year of purchase.

Note 2: Special Border Areas Programme Fund A grant of £50,000 was received from this fund and was paid to the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, Co. Monaghan, as part of the Council's scheme of grant-in-aid for capital purposes (see Note 4). The fund was established as part of the E.E.C. Regional Development Programme.

Note 3: Other Grants

£ Allied Irish Banks Ltd (Slide Packs) 6,100 Bank of Ireland ("Shapes" Exhibition) 1,319 Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Grants) 22,761 Bord na Gaeilge (Amharclann an Darner) 25,000 Donegal County Council (Ballybofey County Theatre Committee) 10,000 Dublin Corporation (Royal Irish Academy of Music) 5,000 Dublin Corporation (Scholarships) 4,000 Dundalk Urban District Council (Music Scholarships) 2,000 Louth County Council (Music Scholarship) 300 Minister for Finance (Dublin Grand Opera Society) 5 Radio Telefís Eireann (Film Script Award) 15,000 Spanish Cultural Institute (George Campbell Award) 800 £92,285

Note 4: General Expenditure on the Arts

1980 Grants Other Activities 1981 Total £ 58,382 Literature 94,025 15,468 109,493 138,706 Visual Arts 129,380 9,636 139,016 8,918 *Purchase of works of art 5,859 – 5,859 25,492 Exhibitions – 51,710 51,710 1,506,115 Drama 1,748,994 – 1,748,994 216,709 Dance 286,269 – 286,269 48,400 Traditional Music 65,070 17,993 83,063 129,523 Music 176,682 6,009 182,691 122,555 Opera 158,045 – 158,045 95,455 Film 99,400 5,269 104,669 153,890 Arts Centres 234,500 – 234,500 18,540 Arts Festivals 22,390 – 22,390 44,758 Community Arts 76,123 – 76,123 24,763 Arts in Education 15,133 49,010 64,143 20,180 Arts Development in the Regions 42,474 – 42,474 103,170 Bursaries, Scholarships, Travel Grants 132,713 – 132,713 213,617 Capital 160,244 – 160,244 8,580 Research & Information – 12,680 12,680 9,175 † Grants on behalf of local authorities 17,300 – 17,300 – Aosdána Expenses – 6,400 6,400 – Grant to Ciste Cholmcille 3,000 – 3,000 £2,946,928 Totals £3,467,601 £174,175 £3,641,776 *Grants towards the puchase of works of art represent the Council's contribution to the cost of works of art acquired by approved bodies under the Council's Joint Purchase Scheme. The works of art may not be resold without the prior agreement of the Council, and in the event of such agreement, they shall not be resold for less than their original price, and half the sum realised shall be refunded to the Council. † Grants on behalf of local authorities represent grant-aid made available on the recommendation of local authorities, who pay equivalent amounts to the Council under Section 12 of the Arts Act, 1973. The analysis of the previous year's expenditure has been altered for purposes of comparison.

Note 5: Capital Account Works of Art Motor Vehicle Total Balance 31st December 1980 59,875 5,066 64,941 Acquisitions 16,088 – 16,088 Disposals (1,170) – (1,170) 14,918 Balance 31st December 1981 £74,793 £5,066 £79,859

Note 6: Administration 1980 1981 Salaries, Superannuation, PRSI 143,207 194,919 Council and Staff Expenses 39,012 42,765 Consultants' Fees and Expenses 2,995 1,277 Office Furniture and Equipment 9,192 5,146 Improvement to premises 12,377 10,715 Rent, Light, Heat, Insurances, Cleaning, Repairs and other House expenses: 23,838 30,954 Printing and Stationery 5,338 7,507 Postage, Telephone and Sundry Expenses 14,695 22,213 £250,654 £315,496

Note 7: Trust Funds

Assets at 31st December 1981 £ £ President Douglas Hyde Award £830.90 6% Exchequer Stock, 1980-85 840 (Market Value of Securities £617) Cash at Bank 313 1,153

W.J.B. Macaulay Foundation £26,400.00 9% Conversion Stock, 1980-82 20,546 (Market Value of Securities £25,552) Cash at Bank 2,383 22,929

New York Irish Institute Fund £1,728.74 6% Exchequer Stock, 1980-85 1,770 (Market Value of Securities £1,284) Cash at Bank – 1,770

Denis Devlin Foundation £2,600.00 9% Conversion Stock, 1980-82 2,032 (Market Value of Securities £2,516) Cash at Bank 1,028 3,060

Ciste Cholmcille £1,200.00 7% National Loan, 1987-92 1,030 £8,147.65 8½% Conversion Stock 1986-88 8,099 £2,050.00 9¾ National Loan, 1984-89 2,004 £1,020.00 9¾% National Development Loan, 1992-97 1,005 £2,000.00 11% National Loan, 1993-98 1,840 (Market Value of Securities £9,120) 13,978 Cash at Bank 5,107 19,085

Marten Toonder Foundation £4,100.00 9% Conversion Stock, 1980-82 4,021 £6,000.00 11% National Loan, 1993-98 5,583 £6,600.00 12% Conversion Stock, 1995 6,711 5,602 Allied Irish Banks Limited, 25p Shares 5,189 £1,150.00 Bank of Ireland Stock 3,560 (Market Value of Securities £22,821) 25,064 Cash at Bank 3,386 Debtor 654 Creditor (3,000) 26,104 £74,101

Note: Securities are shown at cost and are held in trust by An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Movement of Trust Funds Brought Expen- Carried Forward Income diture Forward President Douglas Hyde Award 1,094 59 – 1,153 W.J.B. Macaulay Foundation 23,419 2,510 3,000 22,929 New York Irish Institute Fund 1,770 104 104 1,770 Denis Devlin Foundation 2,800 260 – 3,060 Ciste Cholmcille 15,054 8,033* 4,002 19,085 Marten Toonder Foundation 26,132 2,972 3,000 26,104 £70,269 £13,938 £10,106 £74,101

*Income to Ciste Cholmcille includes subscriptions received amounting to £3,651 and a grant from the General Funds of the Arts Council of £3,000.

Note 8: Interest Free Loans During 1981 eleven additional interest-free-loans were made:

Balance outstanding 31st December 1980 118,109 Additional Loans 137,000 Repayments (60,539) Bad Debt Provision (17,500) Balance outstanding 31st December 1981 (23 Loans) £177,070

Note 9: At 31st December 1981 the Council had approved grants and guarantees against loss on various activities due to take place after that date. The amount involved, £1,922,740, is not reflected in these accounts.

Photo Credits Fergus Bourke 6 John Kellett 10 John Kellett 12 (top) John Kellett 12 (bottom) Michael Bulfin 16 (top) John Kellett 16 (bottom) John Kellett 18 Fergus Bourke 24 Cyril Perrett 28 Herbie Gibson 32 Fergus Bourke 34 Anne Wynne Simmons 36 Kevin Martin 40 Neighbourhood Open Workshop 42 John Kellett 46