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R An Chomhairle Ealaíon / The Arts Council THE ARTS PLAN 1995–1997 PLAN ARTS THE A
ANNUAL REPORT 1994
T R A An Chomhairle Ealaíon The Arts Council
ANNUAL REPORT 1994 An Triú Tuarascáil Bhliantúil Daichead maille le Ráitis Airgeadais don bhliain dar chríoch 31 Nollag 1994. Tíolacadh don Rialtas agus leagadh faoi bhráid gach tí den Oireachtas de bhun Altanna 6 (3) agus 7 (1) den Ach Ealaion, 1951.
Forty-third Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 1994. 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.
ISBN 0 906627 63 X ISSN 0790-1593 ANNUAL REPORT 1994
Contents
A N C HOMHAIRLE E ALAI´ ON/THE A RTS C OUNCIL 1
C HAIRPERSON’ S F OREWORD 5
F INANCE 9
M EMBERSHIP, STAFF AND E MPLOYMENT P OLICY 15
A OSDÁ NA 17
L ITERATURE 21
V ISUAL A RTS 27
F ILM 37
D RAMA 41
D ANCE 49
O PERA 53
M USIC/TRADITIONAL M USIC 57
A RTS C ENTRES 65
E DUCATION, YOUNG P EOPLE AND C HILDREN 69
A RTS D EVELOPMENT IN THE R EGIONS 75
C OMMUNITY A RTS AND F ESTIVALS 79
C APITAL 83
S UNDRY 84
F INANCIAL S TATEMENTS 87 THE ARTS COUNCIL
COUNCIL Ciarán Benson, Chairperson Ciarán MacGonigal Eavan Boland Paul McGuinness Páraic Breathnach Laura Magahy (from September 1994) Victor Merriman Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy Patrick Murray Jane Dillon Byrne Aidan O’Carroll Eithne Healy Terry Prone Ollie Jennings Vivienne Roche (until April 1994) Kathleen Watkins Proinsias Mac Aonghusa John Wilson
STAFF (at October 1995) Director Adrian Munnelly Officers Literature Sinéad Mac Aodha (from June 1995) Visual Arts Sarah Finlay Drama and Personnel Phelim Donlon Music and Traditional Arts Dermot McLaughlin Opera Vacant Regions and Arts Centres Mary Cloake Community Arts and Festivals Jackie O’Keeffe (from June 1995) Education Kieran Walsh (until August 1995) European Affairs* Marian Fitzgibbon Arts Co-Operation* Marian Flanagan (from May 1995) Finance and Administration David McConnell Communications Mary Hyland (from June 1995) (*Appointed jointly with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland) Executive Assistants Secretarial Sheila Gorman (from September 1994) Patricia Moore Kevin Healy Mary Hickey Cornelia McCarthy (until June 1994) Paula O’Meara Nuala O’Byrne Edward Redding Bernadette O’Leary Maeve Giles Jennifer Traynor Karen O’Meara Jackie Casey Advisors, Consultants Visual Arts (part-time) Helena Gorey Film (part-time) Paul Freaney Theatre Review Co-ordinator Declan Gorman Dance (part-time) Gaye Tanham Popular Music Keith Donald (Director, MusicBase Ltd) Officer on secondment Laurence Cassidy Director of Ireland and its Diaspora – Frankfurt Book Fair 1996 iv ANNUAL REPORT 1994
An Chomhairle Ealaíon/The Arts Council
Currach Two n Chomhairle Ealaíon/The Arts financial assistance and other Council is an independent support services for individuals and by Catherine Delaney. autonomous body set up in 1951 organisations and generally to create A to stimulate public interest in and an environment in which the arts can promote the knowledge, appreciation develop and flourish. Support of the and practice of the arts. Operating individual arts practitioner is a under the Arts Acts 1951 and 1973, fundamental part of the Council’s the Council carries out this work mission and the Council understands through a wide range of policies and that it has a clear responsibility to programmes designed to provide foster those structures which assist
1 THE ARTS COUNCIL / AN CHOMHAIRLE EALAI´ ON and develop dialogue between artists, designated for specific schemes or the arts and the communities from projects. The Council also administers which they emerge. The Council also a number of trust funds. seeks to influence and work with other The arts are defined in the Arts state agencies, local authorities, Acts and include: painting, sculpture, private business, schools and colleges architecture, film, print-making, in bringing the arts to greater design, theatre, dance, music, opera, prominence in society, and from time literature and ‘the fine arts and to time is asked to advise the applied arts generally’. government and government departments on artistic matters. The omhlacht neamhspleách is ea An Council has a statutory right to make Chomhairle Ealaíon a bunaíodh i representations to planning authorities 1951 d’fhonn suim an phobail ins in certain instances where artistic or C na healaíona a spreagadh agus architectural considerations apply. eolas, dea-mheasa agus cleachtadh The Council consists of a board orthu a chur chun cinn. Agus í ag of not more than seventeen members feidhmiú faoi Achtanna Ealaíon 1951 appointed by the Minister for Arts, agus 1973, cuireann an Chomhairle Culture and the Gaeltacht. The an obair sin i gcrích trí réimhse Council meets in formal sessions leathan polasaithe agus clár a thugann eleven times a year to set policies faoi chúnamh airgeadais agus and make decisions within the terms seirbhísí tacaíochta eile a chur ar fáil of the Arts Acts. These policies and do haoine aonair agus d’eagraíochtaí decisions are implemented by a staff agus, tríd is tríd, trí thimpeallacht a headed by a Director, appointed by chruthú inar féidir leis na healaíona the Council. The Arts Council, as a forbairt agus bláthú a héanamh. publicly accountable body, Mar dhlúthchuid de chuspóir na publishes an annual report and Comhairle tá tacaíocht á tabairt don accounts to provide the Oireachtas chleachtóir ealaíon aonair agus and the general public with an tuigeann an Chomhairle go bhfuil overview of the year’s work. The freagracht soléir uirthi na struchtúir Council also publishes a newsletter, sin a chur chun cinn a chuideoidh le Art Matters, and occasional reports forbairt na cumarsáide idir on specific topics. ealaíontóirí, na healaíona agus na Annual grants from the pobail as a n-eascraíonn said. Ba Oireachtas and from the net proceeds mhaith leis an gComhairle, leis, of the National Lottery are the comhiobriú le haisineachtaí stáit eile, Council’s principal sources of income. na húdaráis áitiúla, gnólachtaí These grants are supplemented by príobháideacha, scoileanna agus income from other bodies, usually coláistí agus tionchar a imirt orthu
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d’fhonn ionad níos mó a thabhairt do de ghnáth chun scéimeanna nó na healaíona sa tsochaí, agus ó thráth tionscadail áirithe a chur í gcrích. go chéile iarrtar uirthi comhairle a Riarann an Chomhairle roinnt cistí thabhairt don Rialtas agus do Ranna iontaobhais freisin. Rialtais faoi nithe a bhaineann leis na Sainmhíntear na healaíona faoi na healaíona. Tá de cheart reachtúil ag hAchtanna Ealaíona agus cuimsíonn an gComhairle faisnéis a chur faoi said: péintéireacht, dealbhóireacht, bhráid na n-údarás pleanála i ailtireacht, scannánaíocht, déanamh gcásanna áirithe a bhaineann cúrsaí priontaí, dearadh, amharclannaíocht, ealaíne nó ailtireachta leo. damhsa, ceol, ceoldrámaíocht, litríocht Is é atá sa Chomhairle ná bord de agus ‘na min-ealaíona agus na sheachtar déag ar a mhéid agus is é an healaíona feidhmeacha i gcoitinne’. tAire Ealaíon, Cultúir agus Gaeltachta (An Taoiseach roimhe seo) a cheapann na baill. Buaileann an Chomhairle le chéile aon uair déag in aghaidh na bliana, de ghnáth, d’fhonn polasaithe na Comhairle a leagan síos agus cinntí a ghlacadh laistigh de théarmaí na nAchtanna Ealaíon. Cuireann Stiúrthóir agus foireann na Comhairle na cinntí agus na polasaithe sin i bhfeidhm. Comhlacht atá cúntasach don phobal í an Chomhairle Ealaíon agus foilsíonn sí tuarascáil bhliantúil agus cúntais chun athbhreithniú ar obair na bliana a chur ar fáil don Oireachtas agus don phobal i gcoitinne. Foilsíonn an Chomhairle nuachlitir, leis, in aghaidh na ráithe, Art Matters, agus tuarascálacha ó am go chéile ar ábhair ar leith. Colotype by Is iad príomhfhoinsí ioncaim na Comhairle ná deontais in aghaidh na Andrew Doyle. bliana ón Oireachtas agus ó ghlanfháltais an Chrannchuir Technician, Náisiúnta. Cuirtear leis na deontais sin trí ioncam ó na húdarais áitiúla agus ó Cork Printmakers. chomhlachtaí nach iad, a ainmnítear
3 Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht Michael D. Higgins meets Wami and Timothy Lavelle of Theatre Omnibus’ ‘On Broken Wings, 1994. (Photograph by Timothy Lavelle). ANNUAL REPORT 1994
Chairperson’s Foreword
994 was an exceptional year for the Arts Council. It was the first full year in which an Arts 1 Council worked with its own government department and minister; it was the first time in its history that the Arts Council, in response to a departmental request, prepared a systematic three-year plan for the arts in Ireland which has been adopted as Government policy; and it was a year in which Minister Michael D. Higgins achieved a major increase in Arts Arts Council in partnership with Council funding. None of this could other State agencies such as Temple have been achieved without a large Bar Properties. These included a number of people in the arts benchmark survey of behaviour and community, the Council and the attitudes in Ireland The Public and The Department of Arts, Culture and Arts and the highly significant The the Gaeltacht working well Employment and Economic Significance together for the common good of of the Cultural Industries in Ireland. the arts. It was this constructive More people now participate in the spirit of debate and hard work arts in Ireland than ever before, and that enabled so much to be done our understanding of how the arts in in an unprecedented short general are vibrantly stitched into the period of time. economic as well as into the aesthetic The Arts Council took the view and intellectual life of the country that it could best formulate its can now be demonstrated. These and policies for the arts on the basis of other publications fed into our detailed empirical research and close planning for the future of the arts consultation with its constituency. in Ireland. During the year a number of During the year we also important documents were published reviewed our internal workings as a by the Arts Council itself and by the Council and have put in train a
5 CHAIRPERSON’S FOREWORD variety of changes which have those needs. While the Council is the already improved our service to our primary agency for the development public. However we carry out our of the arts it is not the only one. work under very considerable Local authorities, the Departments difficulties. The Arts Council of of Labour, Environment, Education Wales with a budget of £14.5m has a and Foreign Affairs and of course, staff of 70; the Arts Council of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, the Northern Ireland with a budget of business community, RTE, the press £6.6m has a staff of 37. An and the public at large all have Chomhairle Ealaíon with a budget of contributions of great value to make. £16.25m has a staff of 27 of whom a But if those contributions are to have significant number are on short-term their maximum effect co-ordinated contracts and are generally paid at a planning is needed. lower scale than their equivalents This is why the request by elsewhere in the public service. Government for a three-year rolling I cannot help thinking that the plan for the arts was so important. attitude of benevolent but underpaid The contents of this plan are not indulgence which is the lot of the arts written in stone. Any worthwhile elsewhere in society is repeated in Arts Council must be as flexible as the constraints placed on the staffing the needs of the arts require. But of the Arts Council. That so much generally speaking The Arts Plan is achieved by so few is a tribute to 1995–1997 is the manifesto of this all involved. Arts Council and will colour all our Artistically, 1994 was another work for the remainder of our term excellent year. The boost to morale of office. There is much more we provided by Michael D. Higgins’ need to know if we are to best assist financial achievement on behalf of individual art forms. Dance for the arts community via the Arts example has been much neglected Council was palpable. The level of and our major clients in the area of energy, ability and commitment of Theatre are facing quite particular artists and of arts workers in Ireland problems, some of which have to do is remarkable and is increasingly with the changing nature of theatre attracting international attention as audiences. Next year I hope to be well as national recognition. But for able to report on our major review of those of us charged with responsi- theatre in Ireland. In addition to bility for developing and supporting being a contribution to our the arts on behalf of the people of knowledge and understanding of Ireland there is the always-present theatre, it will also be an experi- gap between what we see is needed mental attempt to explore types of and the resources available to meet informed consultation in order that
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theatre groups themselves as well as needed to fund them is minuscule the Arts Council can be confident compared to other sectors of public that what they are doing is in the expenditure, and the benefits of best interests of Irish theatre. If this such funding are manifest approach to policymaking works, throughout Irish life. The Arts then perhaps this arts council will Council will continue in the coming complete one more major review year to do all it can to ensure that of another art form before it goes those opportunities are not lost. out of office. These are good times for the arts in Ireland. Many opportunities are there for benefiting the nation as well as the arts. The money Ciarán Benson
Details from
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photographic work by Liam O’Callaghan.
7 A R T A T R R 1995–97 The Arts Plan The Arts
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Finance
he Council’s state funding for Direct support for the individual 1994 came from two sources: an artist during 1994 amounted to Exchequer grant-in-aid, £8.315m £1.3m, 10% of total expenditure, T and £4.988m from the National including a provision of £677,000 for Lottery Fund: a total of £13.303m Aosdána and £129,000 for 857 air compared with £11.556m in 1993. travel awards under the ARTFLIGHT These funds are transferred to the scheme operated by the two Arts Council by the Department of Arts, Councils in Ireland in conjunction Culture and the Gaeltacht and the with Aer Lingus. Many more Council, when making allocations, individuals received indirect support does not differentiate between the and employment through the original source of its funds. Council’s grants to organisations.
Arts Council State Funding, 1991–1995 ______[£m] 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 Grant-in-aid 4.968 5.173 6.568 8.315 12.543 ______National Lottery 4.988 4.988 4.988 4.988 3.707 Total State Funding 9.956 10.161 11.556 13.303 16.250
The Arts Plan 1995-97 outlines the objectives and strategies In the context of the Programme for a of the Council for the succeeding three Partnership Government 1993–97, the years and lays the foundation for Council was requested by the Minister funding and development of the arts for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht to into the next century. prepare a Three-Year Plan for the The Plan was considered by arts. Following a wide-ranging consul- Government and published in tative and research process, The Arts February 1995 and in April 1995 was Plan 1995–97 was presented to the the subject of a debate in Dáil Department in June 1994. Éireann, probably the first parlia- Representing six months intense work mentary debate on the arts in Ireland by the Council and its staff, the Plan since the Arts Act debates in 1973.
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Structured research was a key Arts Council Publications 1994-95 part of the methodology in preparing 1993 Annual Report the Plan and the Council was Awards 1994 associated with four reports which Awards 1995 redress to some extent the serious Art Matters No 17, 18, 19, 20 lack of quantitative data on the The Future of the Irish Book contemporary arts in Ireland: Publishing Industry The Economics of the Arts in The Arts Plan 1995-1997 Ireland, Joe Durkan (The Arts The Public and the Arts Council, 1994) The Economics of the Arts The Public and the Arts / A survey of Inside Out – A Touring Exhibition Behaviour and Attitudes in Ireland for Schools (Business Research Programme, Guide to Exhibition Venues Graduate School of Business, in Ireland, 2nd Edition University College Dublin, 1994) Managing the Cultural Sector/ Michael Byrne Trust Essential Competencies for In 1994, the Council was pleased to Managers in Arts, Culture and accept a donation of £9,000 from the Heritage in Ireland, Paula Clancy trustees of the estate of the late (Oak Tree Press, 1994) Michael Byrne, printmaker, who The Employment and Economic had died in 1989. The interest from Significance of the Cultural this fund will provide a biennial Industries in Ireland (Coopers & award to a printmaker. Lybrand Corporate Finance, commissioned by Temple Bar Properties, 1994)
Artspace Studios,
49 Dominick Street,
Galway. (Photograph
by Event). 10 ANNUAL REPORT 1994
Untitled by Rob Smith,
Monoprint 1994.
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FIVE-YEAR FINANCIAL SUMMARY 1994 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 Income £%££££ State Funding 13,303,000 11,556,000 10,161,000 9,956,000 9,478,000 Other Income______362,000 ______248,000 ______264,000 ______710,000 ______277,000 ______13,665,000 ______11,804,000 ______10,425,000 ______10,666,000 ______9,755,000 Expenditure Literature 844,000 6.2% 743,000 690,000 968,000* 587,000 Visual Arts 1,447,000 10.7% 1,208,000 1,109,000 1,093,000 1,017,000 Film 482,000 3.5% 397,000 468,000 336,000 254,000 Drama 4,650,000 34.3% 3,931,000 3,399,000 3,632,000 3,362,000 Dance 378,000 2.8% 233,000 209,000 301,000 321,000 Opera 718,000 5.3% 628,000 575,000 562,000 513,000 Music 928,000 6.8% 789,000 693,000 672,000 555,000 Arts Centres 903,000 6.7% 862,000 766,000 714,000 584,000 Education, Young People and Children 431,000 3.2% 301,000 241,000 208,000 263,000 Community Arts and Festivals 548,000 4.0% 346,000 305,000 265,000 232,000 Local Authorities and Regional Arts Development 405,000 3.0% 345,000 285,000 267,000 213,000 Capital 470,000 3.5% 903,000 818,000 846,000 986,000 Sundry 422,000 3.1% 149,000 132,000 212,000 125,000 Administration 933,000 6.9% 815,000 759,000 695,000 666,000 ______13,559,000 ______100% 11,650,000 10,449,000 10,771,000 9,678,000 Capital Account 47,000 15,000 (2,000) 8,000 60,000 ______13,606,000 11,665,000 10,447,000 10,779,000 9,738,000 ______Outturn for year 59,000 139,000 (22,000) (113,000) 17,000 Opening Balance (47,000) (186,000) (164,000) (51,000) (68,000) ______Closing Balance 12,000 (47,000) (186,000) (164,000) (51,000) Trust Funds 157,000 155,000 149,000 140,000 128,000 Fixed Assets 356,000 310,000 295,000 297,000 289,000 ______Total Assets less Current Liabilities at 31 Dec 525,000 418,000 258,000 273,000 366,000 ______
*Literature expenditure in 1991, £968,000, includes £276,000 relating to the European Literary and Translation Prize project. Detailed lists of grants, etc., are given at the end of each section of the report. Full financial statements will be found on pages 87 to 99. 12 ANNUAL REPORT 1994
DEPARTMENT OF ARTS, CULTURE AND THE GAELTACHT The following payments to organisations involved in the contemporary arts were made direct by the Department of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 1994 1993 ££ Abbey Theatre (National Theatre Society) 300,000 Bord Scannán na hÉireann 2,370,000 1,145,000 C.A.F.E. (Creative Activity for Everyone) 75,000 Irish Architectural Archive 56,000 57,000 Irish Museum of Modern Art (current) 1,153,356 1,061,992 Irish Museum of Modern Art (capital) 100,000 100,000 National Concert Hall 446,200 319,000 Dúchas Folk Theatre, Trim 10,000 Eureka Audiovisual 600 Film Institute of Ireland 5,000 Galway Theatre Project 500,000 32,000 L’Imaginaire Irlandais 121,575 Letterkenny Arts Centre 172,607 Local Authority Arts Officers Seminar 504 Longford Theatre 300,000 MIDEM - Irish Music Showcase 8,000 Siamsa Tíre, Tralee 30,000 30,000 Temple Bar Properties 7,170 12,000 2000 Island/Poetry Ireland 10,000 Wexford Film Commission 20,000 European Literary and Translation Prizes: Irish National Jury 2,943 3,531
NATIONAL LOTTERY 1994 1993 £m £m Total National Lottery Fund Expenditure 91.632 87.368 of which: The Arts Council received 4.988 4.988 Other arts, culture and national heritage projects received: 14.091 14.176
Source: An Post National Lottery Annual Reports
Further information is available in the Annual Reports of the An Post National Lottery Company and the Oireachtas Appropriation Accounts (the Government’s annual accounts) under Vote 42 (Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht) and other votes.
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Membership, Staff and Employment Policy
Membership of the Council as Communications Officer and 994 was the first full year of office Declan Gorman as Theatre Review of the Council appointed by the Co-ordinator, both in a temporary Minister of Arts, Culture and the capacity. Marian Flanagan joined the 1 Gaeltacht in August 1993. In April staff of the Arts Council of Northern 1994, Ollie Jennings resigned from the Ireland in September 1995 as Arts Council. In September 1994, Páraic Co-operation Officer, the second joint Breathnach was appointed to the staff appointment by the two Councils. vacant position. During the year the Kieran Walsh, Education Officer since Council met eleven times in plenary 1992, resigned in August 1995 to take session, including one joint meeting up a position with Siamsa Tíre, Tralee. with the Board of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. The Members met Safety, Health and Welfare on very many other occasions in sub- The Council is vigilant as regards the committee to deal with specific areas of safety, health and welfare of its employ- the Council’s work. (Membership of ees and will shortly introduce a Safety Council is listed on page iv). Statement as required by the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act, 1989. Staff In March 1994 the Management Employment Policy and Equality Services Unit of the Department of The Arts Council is committed to the Finance completed a report and ideal of a society based on principles of recommendations in connection with an equality and equal opportunity and in its improved staffing structure. The Council own employment practices aims to ensure accepted the report in February 1995, that no potential or actual employee subject to reaching agreement with receives more or less favourable SIPTU, representing the Council’s staff. treatment on the grounds of race, colour, In September 1995, Laurence ethnic or national origins, marital status, Shelter by Cassidy, Literature, Community Arts gender, sexual orientation, age, disability and Festivals Officer was seconded as or religious affiliation. It is a condition of Caitriona O’Leary, Director of Ireland and its Diaspora – receipt of grant-aid that organisations Frankfurt Book Fair 1996. His position assisted by the Council agree to avoid any Monoprint and has been filled on a temporary basis by form of discriminatory practice and to Sinéad Mac Aodha and Jackie O’Keeffe. In pay particular regard to promoting equal watercolour, 1993. June 1995, Mary Hyland was appointed opportunities in all areas of their work. 15 President Mary Robinson, presenting a Gold Torc, the symbol of Aosdána to the artist Tony O’Malley on his election to the Saoi in Aosdána. ANNUAL REPORT 1994
Aosdána
uring the year the Toscaireacht by President Mary Robinson at a (Executive) of Aosdána met on ceremony at Aosdaná offices in six occasions. The Members of January ‘94. D the Toscaireacht in this period The Toscairí continued making were: Anthony Cronin, Jerome de representations to the Department of Bromhead, Éilís Dillon, Dermot Education on the matter of the Healy, John Kinsella, Gene Lambert, unsatisfactory nature of the represen- Brian Lynch, Ulick O’Connor, Jane tation of UNESCO in Ireland. There O’Leary and Bob Quinn. The is, in effect, no national commission Registrar of Aosdána is Arts Council and the Toscairí take the view that Director, Adrian Munnelly; he is this is disadvantageous to Irish artists assisted by Bernadette O’Leary. At in that international opportunities for the end of the year new elections were Irish artists created by UNESCO can held of the Toscaireacht as is required not be properly exploited. by regulation. Toscairí serve for two The Toscairí had a number of years and are eligible for re-election. meetings with executives of RTE to During the year the death discuss the matter of under-represen- occurred of Éilís Dillon which tation of new music in the RTE created a vacancy on the Toscaireacht. schedules. In particular, discussions The deaths also took place of focused on the programme of the Michael Biggs, Patrick Carey, Patrick National Symphony Orchestra, the Collins, Terence de Vere White and policy of FM3 on contemporary Michael J. Molloy. music and the recording of new music Tony O’Malley was elected to the by Irish composers. The Toscairí honarary position of Saoi within were pleased to note that some Aosdaná. He was presented with a progress was made on all of these gold torc, the symbol of the Soai, fronts during the year.
£ Cnuais to 33 writers 258,417 Cnuais to 43 visual artists 340,700 Cnuais to 7 composers 56,000 ______655,117 ______
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The Toscairí considered the Dhomhaill, Ulick O’Connor and possibility of Aosdána becoming a Jane O’Leary. The work of the nominating body to the cultural panel group was assisted by Aileen of Seanad Éireann. This is a matter O’Connor who was appointed which will be addressed as Executive Secretary. The report of opportunities arise in the future. the Working Party was examined at A special committee was a General Assembly in November established during the year to and was adopted. The Toscairí were consider structures and electoral delagated to enter into dialogue with procedures in Aosdána. The the Arts Council in the implemen- members appointed were Cecily tation of its recommendations. To Brennan, Mary FitzGerald, Gene keep Members abreast of Lambert, Brian Lynch, Brian developments in Aosdána a Maguire, Val Mulkerns, Nuala Ní newsletter was issued in March 1994.
MEMBERS OF AOSDANA at 31 December 1994 Visual Arts Mary FitzGerald Carolyn Mulholland Arthur Armstrong Martin Gale Eilís O’Connell Robert Ballagh Tim Goulding Gwen O’Dowd John Behan Patrick Graham Tony O’Malley Pauline Bewick Patrick Hall Patrick O’Sullivan Basil Blackshaw Charles Harper Kathy Prendergast Brian Bourke Patrick Hickey Patrick Pye Fergus Bourke Eithne Jordan Bob Quinn Charles Brady Michael Kane Yann Renard Goulet Cecily Brennan Brian King James Scanlon Vincent Browne Gene Lambert Patrick Scott Michael Bulfin Sonja Landweer David Shaw-Smth John Burke Louis le Brocquy Noel Sheridan James Coleman Melanie le Brocquy Maria Simonds-Gooding Barrie Cooke Ciarán Lennon Camille Souter Dorothy Cross Anne Madden Imogen Stuart William Crozier Brian Maguire Rod Tuach Charles Cullen Louis Marcus Charles Tyrrell Michael Cullen James McKenna Barbara Warren Edward Delaney Theo McNab Michael Warren Felim Egan Seán McSweeney Alexandra Wejchert Conor Fallon Helen Moloney Anne Yeats Micheal Farrell Michael Mulcahy
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Literature Pearse Hutchinson Paul Muldoon John Banville Jennifer Johnston Val Mulkerns Leland Bardwell Neil Jordan Richard Murphy Sebastian Barry John B. Keane Thomas Murphy Dermot Bolger Molly Keane Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Philip Casey Benedict Kiely Seán O Coistealbha Anthony Cronin Tom Kilroy Ulick O’Connor Margaretta D’Arcy Mary Lavin Julia O’Faoláin Seamus Deane James Liddy Críostóir O Floinn Paul Durcan Michael Longley Desmond O’Grady Bernard Farrell Brian Lynch Micheal O’Siadhail Pádraic Fiacc Tom MacIntyre James Plunkett Brian Friel Bernard MacLaverty James Simmons Patrick Galvin Bryan MacMahon Paul Smith Carlo Gebler Derek Mahon Sydney Brenard Smith Ernest Gebler Hugh Maxton Francis Stuart Robert Greacen John McGahern Matthew Sweeney Michael Hartnett Medbh McGuckian Colm Tóibín Dermot Healy Frank McGuinness Mervyn Wall Seamus Heaney John Montague Macdara Woods Aidan Higgins Brian Moore
Music Frank Corcoran Philip Martin Gerald Barry Raymond Deane Jane O’Leary Walter Beckett Jerome de Bromhead Eric Sweeney Seoirse Bodley Roger Doyle Gerard Victory Brian Boydell Fergus Johnston James Wilson John Buckley John Kinsella
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Literature
Policy Development and Literature Exchange/Idirmhalartán ‘The Arts Plan’ Litríocht Éireann) was set up and it iterature expenditure in 1994 was is located within the Irish Writers’ £844,000, an increase of 14% over Centre/Áras na Scríbhneoirí in the 1993 outturn. A major activity Dublin. ILE takes its place as a L in the Literature Department national promoter of literature and during the year was the preparation of publishing alongside the Arts Council the text on Literature for the Arts and Bord na Leabhar Gaeilge. Plan/An Plean Ealaíon 1995–1997. The ILE has as its main functions the Chapter on Literature represents the promotion of Irish literature abroad latest in a series of policy documents particularly through the means of which have included: Services in literary translation. Throughout the Literature (1985); Developing Publishing in 1990s the Arts Council has regarded Ireland (1988) and Translating the Success the establishment of a foreign literacy of Irish Literature (1992). It is based on a promotions agency as a major policy most careful and wide-ranging consul- goal. This has now been achieved. tation with the Irish book world and the ILE appointed Dr Marc Caball as many submissions received. its Director. Its primary role is the grant-aiding of Irish literary works Establishment of ILE in translation and the inaugural The new independent funding year saw the grant-aiding of works agency, known as ILE (Ireland as follows:
Author Title Target Language Hubert Butler The Sub-Prefect Should French Have Held His Tongue! Tony Cafferky Identities German Máirtín Ó Cadhain Cré na Cille Norwegian Roddy Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha! Ha! Ha! French W. B. Yeats Poems Romanian James Joyce Ulysses Dutch W. B. Yeats Late Poems French Marina Carr, Bursary Anthology of Irish Short Stories French Anthology of Irish Poetry Romanian recipient, 1994. Anthology of Irish-language poetry Italian
21 LITERATURE
‘The Future of the Irish Book Visits of Writers from Abroad Publishing Industry’ During 1994, the Irish Writers’ Centre The Council had marked out the hosted readings by the Australian poet burgeoning Irish publishing industry as Les Murray and the Prix Goncourt a vital area for a strategic study. In 1994 winner Amin Maalouf who is originally it approached Forbairt and subsequently from Lebanon. In exchange for the visit CLÉ the Irish Educational Publishers of Amin Maalouf, the Writers’ Centre Association and Bord na Leabhar sent Colm Tóibín to the Maison des Gaeilge. The group commissioned Ann Ecrivains in Paris. Poetry Ireland hosted O’Connell of Coopers and Lybrand the American poet C. K Williams and the Corporate Finance in November 1994 to New York-based Sharon Olds gave a write the Report ‘The Future of the Irish reading and launched the American issue Book Publishing Industry’. (The Report of Poetry Ireland Review. was launched at the Irish Writers’ Centre by Mr. Michael D. Higgins, TD Aristeion Prizes Minister for Arts, Culture and the The Aristeion Prizes 1994 were Gaeltacht and by the Mr. Richard administered by the European Union Bruton, TD, Minister for Enterprise and Commission. The following were the Employment in July 1995). nominations by Ireland:
Irish Nominations for the Aristeion European Literary Prize 1994 Author Title Roddy Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha! Ha! Ha! Eugene McCabe Death and Nightingales Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Feis
Irish Nominations for the Aristeion European Translation Prize 1994 Translator Title Author Paul Muldoon The Astrakhan Cloak Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Catherine O’Brien In the Light of the Eastern Sky Maria Guidacci Gabriel Rosenstock An Cloigeann Muice Gunther Grass Glóthaithe/Die Schweinekopfsulze
The 1994 National Jury had European Translation Prize jury the following membership: Eavan was Angela Ryan. Boland (Chairperson and The The Arts Council welcomed the Arts Council), George Talbot, achievement of Paul Muldoon and Áine Ní Ghlinn, Clairr O’Connor, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill in having Bríona Ní Dhiarmada, Val The Astrakan Cloak placed on the Mulkerns and Colm Toibin. shortlist of the Aristeion European The Irish juror on the Aristeion Translation Prize. 22 ANNUAL REPORT 1994
Ireland and Its Diaspora – The Fair will provide the opportunity Frankfurt Book Fair 1996 for the largest Irish cultural event ever The Arts Council has secured the to take place in Germany. There will designation of Ireland as Focal Theme be a major arts festival in Frankfurt Country at the Frankfurt Book Fair with celebrations elsewhere in 1996. A separate company is being Germany as well. The preparation of established by the Arts Council to the programme for this festival oversee the work on this event. continued throughout 1994.
Aosdána £ Cnuais to 33 Writers 258,417
Awards Ivy Bannister 3,000 Marina Carr 5,000 Evelyn Conlon 750 Sylvia Cullen 750 Kathleen Ferguson 3,000 Anne Haverty 2,000 Deirdre Hines 3,000 Brian Leyden 2,000 John Maher 2,000 Catherine Mac Carthy 3,000 Colm McCann 3,000 Michael Mullen 450 Jim Nolan 3,000 Micheál Ó Brolacháin 3,000 Conor O’Callaghan 3,000 Micheál Ó Conghaile 3,000 Críostóir Ó Floinn 750 Colm O’Gaora 3,000 Justin Quinn 3,000 Niall Quinn 6,000 Maurice Riordan 2,000 Vincent Woods 3,000
ARTFLIGHT: 93 travel awards (in association with Aer Lingus) 14,705 ______c/fwd 330,822
23 LITERATURE
£ b/fwd 330,822 Grants
The Writer Cape Clear Storytelling Festival 2,500 An Chrannóg 750 Daonscoil na Mumhan 200 Killybegs Writers Workshop/Donegal Endeavours 1,500 Galway Arts Centre/Cúirt Filíochta 7,000 Gill and Macmillan 1,000 Kerry International Summer School 1,000 Derek Mahon (re translation) 500 Paula Meehan (re translation) 500 Model Arts Centre, Sligo 200 Eileán Ní Chuilleanáin (re translation) 500 Summer Writing Workshop (Eastern Washington University) 994 Trinity College Dublin (Writer-in-residence: Peter Fallon) 4,000 Tyrone Guthrie Centre 2,500
Literary Organisations CLÉ/Irish Book Publishers’ Association 12,200 ILE/Ireland Literature Exchange 27,200 Irish Translators’ Association 2,000 Irish Writers’ Centre 47,400 Poetry Ireland 54,000
Publishers Attic Press 40,000 Blackstaff Press 7,833 Brandon Book Publishers 24,000 Campus Publishing 1,500 Cló Iar-Chonnachta 7,000 Coiscéim 13,000 Dedalus Press 26,000 Gallery Press 45,165 Greensprint 750 Lilliput Press 16,000 New Island Books 24,500 O’Brien Press 15,000 Poolbeg Press______38,200 c/fwd 755,714
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£ b/fwd 755,714
Salmon Publishing 18,000 Sotto Voce Press 1,000 Tir Eolas 1,500 Wolfhound Press 20,000 Poetry Ireland 2,500
Magazines Books Ireland 16,000 The Buzz 1,500 Comhar 3,000 Cyphers 4,000 Element 1,200 The Irish Review 2,523 Krino 7,000 Windows 1,000 ______Total/Aosdána, Awards and Grants 834,937 ______
Directly Promoted Activities EU Aristeion Prizes 6,489 Writers-in-the-Community 1,987 Writers-in-Prisons 740 Sundry (558) ______Total/Direct Promotions 8,658 ______
Total as Note 3 (page 94 ) 843,595 ______
Grants Received Arts Council of Northern Ireland 54,552 ______
25 Omniscience by Remco de Fouw. ANNUAL REPORT 1994
Visual Arts
he total budget of £1,447,000 Rural Ireland. A handbook was made available to visual arts in published subsequently which gives 1994 – represents a 20% increase information with regard to T on the 1993 expenditure of employment status, group studios and £1,208,000. This enabled the funding opportunities. This and much Council to substantially increase more useful information pertaining to monies to individual artists, artists’ visual arts practice in Ireland residencies, artists’ organisations, constitutes the contents of the Irish galleries and publications. Visual Artist’s Handbook, also published New studios were established, this year. The Association began to during the year with the help of review its own role, consulting its own Council funding and a range of members as well as visual arts bodies. projects were initiated in the areas The AAI continues to research and of training and information. lobby in the area of copyright. The Sculptors Society continued The Individual Artist their management and promotion of The Arts Plan, 1995-1997, emphasises public art commissions. Limited funds the need to provide significantly meant that they had to put on hold a increased support to individual artists. number of planned art projects. In 1994, the Council received almost However, a range of Random Access double the number of applications for seminars and events were organised awards for individuals than it did in during the year, prompting discussion 1991. A total of 93 individual artists in the field of multi media art practice. received funding, of which 23 Arthouse, the new Multi Media received bursaries of between centre established by Temple Bar £1,000 and £3,000. Properties, began the development of its visual arts database, to be made Artists Organisations available on CD ROM. The Council continues to see the importance of organisations which Studios represent and, to a certain degree, The need for studios continues to assist artists on a wide range of issues. grow and the Council addressed this The Association of Artists in Ireland to some extent in 1994 by providing held a seminar entitled Artists in a number of small (maximum £500)
27 VISUAL ARTS set-up grants to group studios year Horizon-funded programme around the country. completed their training as sculptural Cork Printmakers, the only open technicians. The training element and printmaking facility for artists in the ongoing interface with the local Munster, was established. Facilities on community (through workshops, offer there now include etching, schools, residencies and exhibitions) is screenprinting and lithography. integral to the Fire Stations activities. A studio complex of a more fluid The Sirius Project, in Cobh, allowed nature is the Ballinglen Arts Foundation James Turrell to work over a three in North West Mayo which received month period in the Yacht Club, as Arts Council funding for the first time well as in the National Sculpture in 1994. This facility allows for Irish Factory, the Crawford Art Gallery and International artists to come and and the Crawford College of Art and live and work between the months Design, Cork. April and September in a unique rural setting. Galleries Black Church Print Studio re- The Council continues to provide established itself in a newly designed revenue funding to six galleries building attached to Temple Bar throughout the country, each with quite Gallery and Studios. Plans are to different policies and programmes. develop a strong educational aspect to The Butler Gallery, continued its the organisation offering workshops policy of bringing internationally and outreach programmes. The renowned artists to Kilkenny, ground floor will house, for the presenting shows by Sean Scully and present, a print gallery. Richard Wilson. 1994 saw the 4th year Graphic Studio Workshop of the Victor Treacy Award show continued its successful work with among others. visiting artists. The Douglas Hyde Gallery, in Dublin The larger studio facilities in Cork continued its successful collaboration and Dublin underwent major with other overseas venues. This year, developments during the year. with Camden Arts Centre and with The National Sculpture Factory C.C.A. and Tramway in Glasgow. The increased its membership substantially most popular aspect of the gallery’s as well as providing a working space programme this year was the creation for the fabrication of public art by four Tibetan Monks of a Kalachakra commissions. The Factory was host to Mandala on the gallery floor. the Pépinìere Artists Exchange The Irish Gallery of Photography was Scheme for the second time. operational for most of the year in a At The Fire Station Artists Studios, temporary premises in Temple Bar. the eight participants from the two The gallery also initiated a very
28 ANNUAL REPORT 1994 dynamic Youth Arts/Education project of composer Roger Doyle and the other involving schools in Ballymun in being an inter-disciplinary project Dublin and Cahirciveen in Kerry featuring dancer Cindy Cummings, called ‘City Life/Country Life’. poet Nuala Ní Dhomnaill and The RHA Gallagher Galley showed photographer Amelia Stein. an increasing number of younger Irish The Arts Council itself published artists during 1994. the second edition of The Guide to Sligo Art Gallery presented work by Exhibition Venues in Ireland, a resource (mostly) Irish artists, a number of which has proved to be very useful these being exhibitions of artists living for artists, art audiences and arts and working in the Sligo area. Iontas, administrators alike. the small works open submission exhibition, attracted a greater number Other Developments of submissions than heretofore and In terms of direct promotion, the travelled for the first time outside of Council continues, in partnership Sligo to the RHA Gallagher Gallery with the Department of Justice, to in Dublin. assist and facilitate the artists residences in prisons scheme. Exhibitions Twenty seven Purchases were Nineteen exhibitions, both once off made for the collection in 1994. This and touring, were funded in venues year a number of the younger artists throughout the country. were purchased and in acknowl- E.V.A. in Limerick expanded its edgement of the Print Initiative which activities considerably while was established to raise awareness of Claremorris Open Exhibition celebrated the print media in Ireland, twelve its seventeenth year with the largest prints in various media were submission ever. purchased. 90% of the Council’s collection, comprising almost 800 Publications works, is on loan to public bodies Gandon Editions produced a sizeable around the country at any time. number of art titles, including two Twelve artists recently in receipt further editions of the most popular of a materials award were offered Works series as well as catalogues of shows in the entrance and reception the work of Eilis O’Connell and area of the Arts Council offices – a Michael Warren. A number of practice which has proved quietly successful co-productions with foreign successful in terms of public exposure galleries were undertaken. to artists who may not have had much Circa continued to expand both its opportunity to exhibit publicly. readers and writers, featuring two The Council’s Joint Purchase further projects in the Work in Progress Scheme assisted six public bodies in the series, one being a CD and Publication purchase of new works during 1994. 29 VISUAL ARTS
Aosdána £ Cnuais to 43 visual artists 340,700
Awards Margaret Barron 2,500 Ann Berney 500 Christine Bond 500 Andrew Boyle 400 Eoin Byrne 400 Gerard Byrne 3,000 Elizabeth Caffrey 250 Gerry Caffrey 270 Michael Canning 400 Deirdre Carr 200 Susanna Chan 400 Carmel Cleary 1,700 Martina Cleary 450 Maeve Connolly 250 Elizabeth Cope 500 William Crozier 200 Pauline Cummins 4,000 Remco de Fouw 3,000 Michelle Deignan 400 Sharon Dipity 400 Mary Duffy 270 Donal Dunne 400 Sarah Durcan 900 Barbara Ellison 300 Fergus Feehily 250 Maria Finucane 450 Margaret Fitzgibbon 400 Billy Foley 200 Helena Gorey (George Campbell Travel Award) 1,500 Pádraig Grant 450 Marie Hanlon 250 Rhona Henderson 400 Donal Hurley 500 Oona Hyland 250 Sarah Iremonger 1,500 ______c/fwd 368,440
30 ANNUAL REPORT 1994
£ b/fwd 368,440 Patrick Jolley 3,000 Andrew Kearney 3,000 Eibhlin Kelly 250 Kevin Kelly 400 Keith Kennedy 300 Catherine Kenny 400 Norette Kirby 200 David Lilburn 250 Aidan Linehan 1,350 Stephen Loughman 270 Deirdre McCloskey 400 Ronan McCrea 400 Maurice McDonagh 2,000 Mary McGinty 1,500 Patrick McInerney 360 Austin McQuinn 400 Susan MacWilliam 250 Kate Malone 250 Fergus Martin 1,500 T.J. Maher (Dublin Corporation Scholarship) 1,500 Sandra Meehan 250 Ailbhe Murphy 300 Alan Murphy 250 Pat Murphy 300 Fionnuala Ní Chíosáin 3,350 Eilis Ní Fhaoláin 500 Fidelma Noonan 270 Aisling O’Beirn 250 Liam O’Callaghan 400 Pauline O’Connell 400 Thomas O’Donnell 300 Padraic Ó Flaithearta 2,000 Margaret O’Keefe 250 Paul O’Neill 400 Jackie Peterson 250 Áine Phillips 300 Paula Pohli 250 Paul Regan 1,000 Simon Reilly______3,000 c/fwd 400,440
31 VISUAL ARTS
£ b/fwd 400,440
Liam Rimmer 50 Anita Rooney 1,000 Anne Ryan 250 Anne Seagrave 3,000 Desmond Shortt 300 Joyce Tansey 300 Brigid Teehan 1,000 Elke Thonnes 250 Harry Thullier Jnr 450 Maighréad Tobin 400 Michael Travers 200 Margaret Tuffy 250 Clea van der Grijn 3,000 Corban Walker 250 Una Walker 1,000 Tina Whelan 250 David Wilcoxson 200 Michael Wilson 800 Daphne Wright 400
Ireland-America Arts Exchange/PS1 Studios, New York 16,231
ARTFLIGHT: 214 travel awards (in association with Aer Lingus) 35,143 ______Total/Aosdána, Awards 465,164
Grants
Residencies Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Co. Mayo 2,000 Living Art Projects, Dublin 1,000 Monaghan County Council 2,000 Sirius Commemoration, Cobh 3,000 Artworking: Artists in Industry 6,000 ______c/fwd 479,164
32 ANNUAL REPORT 1994
£ b/fwd 479,164 Joint Purchase Ard Scoil Mhuire Ríon, Limerick 87 Boyle Arts Festival 800 Contemporary Irish Arts Society 500 Limerick City Gallery 500 Limerick Corporation 300 St Joseph’s Hospital, Clonmel 300 Organisations Arthouse, Dublin 30,000 Association of Artists in Ireland 23,700 Butler Gallery, Kilkenny 45,700 Douglas Hyde Gallery 135,800 Irish Gallery of Photography 59,500 National Sculpture Factory, Cork 61,870 RHA Gallagher Gallery 81,000 Sculptors’ Society of Ireland 47,400 Sligo Art Gallery 34,800 Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin 85,700 Exhibitions Achill Group Exhibition/John McHugh 500 An t-Oireachtas Exhibition 3,000 Architectural Association of Ireland 3,000 City Arts Centre, Dublin 2,500 Claremorris Arts Committee (Open Exhibition) 10,000 Crawford Municipal Art Gallery 2,500 Galway Arts Centre 3,000 Galway Arts Festival 6,500 Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford 1,000 Island Trust - Ireland 1,000 Letterkenny Artspace Gallery 750 Limerick Exhibition of Visual Art 35,000 Midland Arts Resource Centre, Mullingar 1,500 Model Arts Centre Studios, Sligo 5,200 P. O’Kennedy/C. Langan/L. Mellet 500 Project Arts Centre 3,500 Sculpture in Context 1,500 Working Artists, Roscommon 1,000 Writers’ Week, Listowel 500 ______c/fwd 1,169,571
33 VISUAL ARTS
£ b/fwd 1,169,571 Publications CIRCA magazine 30,551 Droichead Arts Centre 1,000 Gandon, Co Cork 21,300 Irish Academic Press 2,000 Irish Arts Review 2,000 Triskel Arts Centre, Cork 800 Tales from Two Cities 2,000
Studios Artlink/Tullyarvan Mill, Buncrana 450 Artspace Studios, Galway 7,000 Backwater Artists Group, Cork 5,000 Black Church Print Studio 28,500 Camden Street Studios 300 Cork Artists’ Collective 5,000 Cork Printmakers 15,000 Dún Laoghaire Arts Studios 500 Fifty Fifty Artists’ Studios 1,500 Fire Station Artists’ Studios 61,000 Graphic Studio 43,550 Marlborough Studios 500 New Art Studio, Dublin 8,000 Parnell Square Studios 500 Start Studios 500 Town and County Studios 400 Visual Arts Centre, Dublin 6,000 Wexford Sculpture Workshop 2,500
Previous year’s grants not required (4,860) ______Total/Aosdána, Awards and Grants 1,410,562 ______
34 ANNUAL REPORT 1994
Directly Promoted Activities £ Artists-in-Prisons 4,600 Maintenance of Council’s Collection 20,489 Architectural, legal and other professional services 8,762 In-house Exhibitions and Exhibition Venue Guide 2,132 Sundry (79) ______Total/Direct Promotions 35,904 ______
Total as Note 3 (page 94) 1,446,466 ______
Macaulay Fellowship (Trust Fund) Rachel Joynt, artist 3,500 ______
Etching area,
Cork Printmaking.
35 VISUAL ARTS
WORKS OF ART PURCHASED Artist Title Medium £ Carmel Benson Tree Figure II 9/40 Carborundum 98 Kathyrn Beug Queen Emulsion and pigment on canvas 1,200 Bronwen Casson Nora 1. A Doll’s House Mixed Media on paper 150 Bronwen Casson Nora II. A Doll’s House Mixed Media on paper 150 Felicity Clear Autumn River 2/10 Etching 170 Éamon Coleman Visit with Inge Oil on Canvas 750 William Crozier Sherkin Island 35/75 Carborundum 225 Remco de Fouw Omniscience Copper, Brass, Glass, Water 800 Micheal Farrell James Joyce’sTie 38/75 Lithograph/Etching 200 Taffina Flood Red Field (Artist’s Proof) Carborundum 165 Tom Haran Bog Cutting Oil on Canvas 1,305 Robert Janz Surface Solace Gouache on canvas on card 200 John Kelly Renaissance Notebook ‘94 IV Mixed Media on paper 650 Aidan Linehan Work, Rest and Play Zinc and Ink 3,000 Bernadette McKenna In a Daze Poster colour on paper 100 Coilín Murray Flower Field Oil on Canvas 1,000 Caitríona O’Leary Strata I Mixed Media on paper 120 Caitríona O’Leary Shelter Monoprint and Watercolour 250 Tracey Quinn Dusk, Sallygap Oil on Canvas 675 Rob Smith Untitled Monoprint on paper 1,000 Tracy Staunton The Number Seven 7/70 Dry Point 98 Lucy Turner Yellow Dye from the No No Tree Carborundum 210 Clea Van Der Grijn Hurt Mixed Media on paper 550 Stephen Vaughan Winter Carborundum 130 Corban Walker Eye Measure 600 Stephen Webster Untitled 2/2 Etching 230 Anne Yeats Sunlit Reeds Oil on Paper 800 ______Total as Note 6 (page 95) 14,826 ______Grants Received £ Department of Justice (Artists-in-Prisons) 5,000 Dublin Corporation (Awards) 1,500 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (Artists in Industry Programme) 10,065 Arts Council of Northern Ireland (George Campbell Travel Award) 450 Spanish Embassy (Awards) 600 ______Total as Note 2 (page 93) 17,615 ______36 ANNUAL REPORT 1994
Film
994 saw an increase in Film Exhibition expenditure of 21%, bringing Measures include: the total to £482,000. It can be Continuing support for the 1 recorded as one of the most Federation of Irish Film Societies vibrant years in the history of film in which provides access to quality Ireland. The reinstatement of the cinema throughout the country. Film Board, the modifications of Continuing support for the Section 35 of the Finance Act and Dublin, Cork and Galway Film R.T.E.’s new independent commis- Festivals which provide forums sioning policy have all contributed for international debate and access to the significant upturn in film to a broad range of world-wide production and to a new sense of cinematic endeavour. optimism within the industry. Continuing support for the This optimism was in evidence at Junior Dublin Film Festival with the three major film-festivals in Cork, its special focus on young people. Dublin and Galway. The attendance at all three festivals was up on 1993 Exhibition/Training revealing an increase in public interest Measures include: and participation in film culture. Continued support for Film Base, Towards the end of 1994 the The Galway Film Centre and the Irish Film Centre appointed a new Film Institute of Ireland’s education Director. In the enhanced context for and training programmes. film in Ireland the Centre continued to carve out its role as a flagship Film-Maker institution for film as an art form. The intention of the Council is to focus on four distinct aspects of film- POLICY making ; Animation, the short film, The Council began an evaluation of its experimental film and community role in the current context of film in film/video. The Council will allocate Ireland. It is the Council’s intention to specific amounts and devise specific continue to provide support under its award schemes to adequately address three policy headings Exhibition, the needs within these four categories Education and the Film-Maker. for film-making.
37 FILM
AWARDS live action to explore the relationship The Film and Video Awards for 1994 between colour and music, and to Brigid focused on the development and Fitzgerald for her video documentary encouragement of the art of experi- on ‘A Woman’s Place Phase II’. In mental film and the area of community September the top award, £10,000 went film/video. In April the first round of to Ger Philpot/BC Productions (payable awards was announced. The two in 1995) for his short drama ‘Change’ top awards each of £7,500 went to which deals with the subject of AIDS in Tony Donoghue for his project ‘The Ireland, two animated films, one by Tim Stripped Down Film’ which combines Booth and the other by Steve Woods abstract forms, music, animation and were awarded £5,000 each.
Film and Video Project Awards £ Tim Booth 5,000 Pauline Cummins 2,500 De Facto Film & Video 4,000 Kevin Donlon 3,000 Tony Donoghue (plus £2,500 in 1995) 5,000 Brigid Fitzgerald 7,500 Eileen Fleming 3,000 Olwen Fouere 5,000 Cathal Gaffney 2,000 Glass Machine North Project 2,500 Graph Productions 500 Paul Irvine 3,500 Hilary McLoughlin 4,000 Vinny Murphy 2,500 Alanna O’Kelly 5,000 Padraig O’Neill 10,000 Sally Ann O’Reilly 5,000 Harry Purdue 4,000 Yvonne Thunder 3,000 Steve Woods 5,000
ARTFLIGHT: 53 travel awards (in association with Aer Lingus) 8,147 ______c/fwd 90,147
Note: Film and Video Awards totalling £100,000 were committed in respect of 1994. The above list reflects payments, rather than commitments.
38 ANNUAL REPORT 1994
£ b/fwd 90,147 Grants Anamú Animation Base 1,000 Cork Film Festival 28,600 Dublin Film Festival 20,500 Federation of Irish Film Societies 48,400 Film Base, Dublin 58,600 Film Institute of Ireland 188,000 Film Resource Centre, Galway 27,500 Galway Film Fleadh 8,000 Media Desk Ireland 5,000 ______476,247
Sundry 6,368 ______Total as Note 3 (page 94) 482,115 ______
Ireland 1848,
a primitive documentary on the
famine in Ireland,
by Steve Woods.
39 Barabas’ production of Macbeth. ANNUAL REPORT 1994
Drama
994 saw an increase in Drama Theatre Fellowship which is an expenditure of 18% to £4,650,000. award tenable for a semester at the This enabled the Council to make Goodman Theatre in Chicago 1 very significant progress in areas established in 1991 to mark the visit which were identified as priorities, to that city by President Mary both generally in terms of policy Robinson. The award was made in definition and specifically in terms of 1994 to Peter Kiernan from Cork. objectives and mechanisms. The budget to support the playwrights commissioning scheme Awards to Individuals was increased and thirteen Support for the individual was playwrights benefited from grants to increased with awards made to production managements to enable twenty persons which was the new plays to be written. largest number of awards to Emerging playwrights were individuals ever made in Drama by encouraged by awards from the the Council. These awards included Stewart Parker Trust which is grants to enable play directors to jointly funded by the Arts Council undertake placements with profes- of Northern Ireland and An sional theatre companies, both in Chomhairle Ealaíon. The award Ireland and overseas, grants to winners in 1994 were: Gary stage designers to undertake Mitchell and Jimmy Murphy. specialised courses of study and A total of 112 Artflight awards practice, and, for the first time, were made in 1994 in Drama. grants to enable young people to These increased provisions for obtain training as actors. individuals reflect the Council’s The Council has been very policy to support and sustain the pleased by the positive response to individual artist and practitioner. these schemes. During 1994 extensive research was undertaken Theatre Projects Awards with a view to refining and extending The Theatre Projects Awards fund support mechanisms for individual was also increased in 1994 and eight practitioners in future years. companies received awards which The Council administers the assisted them to develop innovative or President Robinson/Goodman experimental approaches to theatre
41 DRAMA practice. These included Barabbas, in the areas of access to professional Calypso, Dry Bread, The Machine, arts for audiences on as balanced and Thowin’ Shapes, Pan Pan, Meridian equitable a scale as resources Theatre Company, Cork and Island currently allow. Theatre Company, Limerick. The project awards are intended Production Companies to ensure that the practice of the Just under £4 million was provided theatre arts in Ireland is varied and to 30 producing and/or receiving enriched by the best of contemporary theatre organisations during 1994. approaches to the discipline. The largest grant, £2,199,000, was provided to the National Theatre Touring Society which operates the Abbey The largest allocation to date and Peacock Theatres. The Society (£549,000) was made in support of mounted fourteen productions the Council’s Theatre Touring during the year including seven Scheme during 1994. new plays by Irish writers and Grants were made to ten seven revivals of plays by Irish production companies, programming writers. In addition five tours were funds and rental guarantees were undertaken to venues in Co. provided for fourteen venues and Dublin, Cork, London, Edinburgh seven county Arts Officers received and the U.S.A. deficiency guarantees to assist them to Twelve managements based in promote visits by professional theatre Dublin received a total of £878,000 companies to their areas. and sixteen managements based in The touring scheme makes an regional centres shared £700,000. important contribution to the The Dublin Theatre Festival received advancement of the Council’s policies a grant of £201,000.
42 ANNUAL REPORT 1994
Bickerstaffe’s
production of
True Lines, 1994.
43 DRAMA
Awards £ Martina Austin 1,200 Sharon Barker 2,000 Elaine Bastible 3,500 Leslie Conroy 2,000 Aedin Cosgrove 1,000 Simon Dalton 1,500 Paul Donoghue 1,500 Iseult Golden 1,500 Róisín Gribbin 1,500 Bairbre Ní Chaoimh 572 Síle Nic Chonaonaigh 2,000 Darren Lawless (Dublin Corporation Scholarship) 1,500 Dearbhla McClelland 1,500 Ashley Mellet 1,500 Kay Mullaney 2,974 Rory O’Connor 400 Jim O’Keefe 2,500 Eveanna O’Meara 1,500 Bláithín Sheerin 4,000 Edel Sheridan 1,200
ARTFLIGHT: 112 travel awards (in association with Aer Lingus) 15,087
Playwrights’ Commission Scheme Amharclann de hÍde 3,000 Bickerstaffe, Theatre Company, Kilkenny 4,500 Co-Motion Theatre Company 1,500 Droichead Arts Centre, Droichead Átha 1,500 Gaiety School of Acting 1,750 Galloglass Theatre Company, Clonmel 1,750 Island Theatre Company, Limerick 500 Meridian Theatre Company, Cork 1,750 Pigsback Theatre Company 4,500 Project Arts Centre 1,500 Storytellers Theatre Company 1,500 Theatre Works Inc 1,000 Yew Theatre Company, Ballina 1,050 ______Total/Awards and Commissions c/fwd 76,233
44 ANNUAL REPORT 1994
£ b/fwd 76,233 Grants to Organisations National Theatre Society (Abbey & Peacock Theatres)1 2,199,000 Amharclann de hÍde 50,400 Barnstorm Theatre Company, Kilkenny 10,000 Bickerstaffe Theatre Company, Kilkenny 10,000 Blue Raincoat Theatre Company, Sligo 15,000 Co-Motion Theatre Company 35,500 Cork Opera House 23,000 Druid Theatre Company, Galway 252,500 Dublin Theatre Festival 201,000 Everyman Palace Theatre, Cork 67,000 Feedback Theatre Company, Cork 10,000 Focus Theatre 40,500 Galloglass Theatre Company, Clonmel 15,000 Gate Theatre 470,000 Glasshouse Productions 10,000 Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo 74,000 Island Theatre Company, Limerick 51,500 Macnas, Galway 20,000 Meridian Theatre Company, Cork 10,000 The Passion Machine 60,000 Pigsback Theatre Company 25,200 Punchbag Theatre Company, Galway 10,000 Red Kettle Theatre Company, Waterford 91,100 Rough Magic Theatre Company 121,700 Phyllis Ryan / Gemini Productions 2,000 Second Age 30,000 Storytellers Theatre Company 13,100 Strumpet City Productions 20,000 Watergate Theatre Company, Kilkenny 20,400 Yew Theatre Company, Ballina 20,100 ______c/fwd 4,054,233 ______
1 Summary of 1994 State funding to the National Theatre Society Arts Council revenue grant 2,199,000 Arts Council capital grant 100,000 Department of Arts, Culture and Gaeltacht grant 300,000 ______2,599,000 ______
45 DRAMA
£ b/fwd 4,054,233 Theatre Touring / Grants to Production Companies Bickerstaffe Theatre Company, Kilkenny 20,000 City Arts Centre 10,000 Co-Motion Theatre Company 35,000 Druid Theatre Company, Galway 60,000 Dubblejoint Productions, Belfast 17,155 Field Day Theatre Company, Derry 33,000 Macnas, Galway 30,000 Playwrights & Actors Company 30,000 Project Arts Centre 11,000 Rough Magic Theatre Company 45,000
Theatre Touring / Grants to Venues Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick 30,000 Cork Opera House 84,000 Droichead Arts Centre 350 Everyman Palace, Cork 30,000 Galway Arts Centre 5,000 The Garage Theatre, Monaghan 4,261 Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford 18,862 Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo 30,000 Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar 650 Project Arts Centre 9,691 St John’s Arts & Heritage Centre, Listowel 1,300 Siamsa Tíre, Tralee 11,659 Waterford Theatre Royal 5,530 Watergate Theatre Company, Kilkenny 15,000
Theatre Touring / Grants to Local Authorities Cavan County Council 700 Clare County Council 3,000 Donegal County Council 4,560 Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council 550 Kildare County Council 300 Kilkenny County Council 1,000 Mayo County Council 1,600 ______c/fwd 4,603,401
46 ANNUAL REPORT 1994
£ b/fwd 4,603,401 Theatre Projects Barabbas....The Company 10,000 Calypso Productions 10,000 Dry Bread Theatre Company 1,500 Island Theatre Company, Limerick 3,000 The Machine 5,500 Meridian Theatre Company, Cork 3,000 Pan Pan Theatre Company 2,350 Throwin’ Shapes Theatre Company 4,500
Other Grants Gate Theatre Trust 1,000 Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo 400 Stewart Parker Trust, Belfast 3,967
Previous year’s grant not required (7,500)
Directly Promoted Activities Sundry 9,107 ______Total as Note 3 (page 94) 4,650,225 ______
Grant Received Dublin Corporation (Awards) 1,500 ______
47 Robert Connor and Loretta Yurick in Fuchsia, March 1994. ANNUAL REPORT 1994
Dance
he Council increased its received project grants, Adrienne expenditure on Dance in 1994 Brown (New Balance Company) and by 62%, bringing the total to Paul Johnson (Mandance). In T £378,000. Current Arts Council addition, Project Arts Centre received policy on dance aims to foster and a small grant to enable the production support the development of an and promotion of dance at this venue. indigenous, inclusive, dance culture Further support for theatre dance in Ireland. The Council is fully aware initiatives is reflected in the grant to that the desire for progress in policy the Dance Council of Ireland which in is hampered by the lack of a Dance 1994 promoted programmes involving Officer at the Council. This lack also a number of independent dance artists impacts on effective communication and companies at the annual ‘New with the dance community. Music – New Dance’ Festival. The Council continues to pursue a speedy resolution of this predicament. Dance-in-Education support was In line with current policy the 1994 centred on Daghdha Dance Company, funding allocations addressed four based at University of Limerick. main areas as follows: Daghdha is the only dance company theatre dance in Ireland providing dance-in- dance-in-education education programmes for secondary dance training bursaries schools. Their programme also dance support organisations includes some in-service courses for teachers. In addition to its schools Theatre Dance received substantial programmes, Daghdha also presents a additional funds in 1994. This is summertime theatre dance programme demonstrated in the increased grants which tours in Ireland and abroad. to three dance companies - Dance Theatre of Ireland, Irish Modern Dance Training Bursaries are Dance Theatre and Rubato Ballet, awarded annually to successful enabling these companies to applicants wishing to pursue dance enlarge/improve their production training abroad. Selection, by way of programmes and to pursue, in greater audition, is carried out by an depth, their individual artistic policies. independent panel of assessors. Two independent choreographers Further to its bursary awards the
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Arts Council also provides some small promoted the ‘New Music – New Rubato Ballet in ‘Miss grants to Irish-based training initiatives Dance Festival’ and produced towards the costs of guest teachers. ‘Dance News Ireland’. The Nora Mary Monaghan’, Association for Professional Dancers Two support organisations received in Ireland receives funding from the New Music / New Dance funding from the Arts Council in Council for a series of ongoing 1994. These were the Dance Council classes, and some workshop Festival 1994, of Ireland and the Association for programmes, aimed at Irish-based Professional Dancers in Ireland professional dancers. Project Arts Centre. (APDI). The Dance Council In 1994 the Council set up a promoted a number of development Working Party on Dance to put (Photograph by projects in 1994 which addressed in place recommendations for areas such as education, community consideration in the context of the Kevin McFeely). dance and dance training. It also Three Year Plan, 1995–97.
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Awards £ Miriam Bowe 2,000 Damien Delaney 4,000 Lucy Dundon 6,000 James Dunne (Dublin Corporation Scholarship) 2,000 Olwen Grindley 1,500 Edward Hayes-Neary 1,000 Judy Hayes 4,500 Claire Keating 1,000 Lisa McLoughlin 2,000 Fearghus Ó Conchúir 6,000 Emma O’Kane 2,000 Karen O’Neill 2,000
ARTFLIGHT: 39 travel awards (in association with Aer Lingus) 4,640 ______38,640
Grants Association of Professional Dancers in Ireland 10,000 Daghdha Dance Company, Limerick 65,500 Dance Council of Ireland 55,300 Dance Theatre of Ireland 70,500 Irish Modern Dance Theatre 55,300 Mandance: Paul Johnson 7,500 New Balance Dance Company: Adrienne Browne 25,100 Project Arts Centre 2,750 Royal Academy of Dancing 1,400 Rubato Ballet 40,300 Shawbrook School of Ballet 2,000
Directly Promoted Activities Working Party on Dance 669 Sundry 2,746 ______Total as Note 3 (page 94) 377,705 ______
Grant Received Dublin Corporation (Award) 1,500 ______
51 A performance of ‘The Demon’ by Rubenstein at Wexford Festival Opera 1994. (Photograph by Amelia Stein) ANNUAL REPORT 1994
Opera
Funding DGOS Opera Ireland uring the year the Council During 1994, the DGOS Opera continued support for Ireland successfully presented DGOS/Opera Ireland, Rigoletto, (Verdi) Fidelio D Wexford Festival Opera and (Beethoven), La Traviata (Verdi) Opera Theatre Company. There was and Hansel and Gretel a 14% increase in expenditure on (Humperdinck). During the year it Opera, bringing the total to £718,000. forged new links with the National The Council believes that it best Chamber Choir through the use of serves its objectives in promoting the choir members for the Winter high standards by focusing upon a season. There are ongoing small number of companies. discussions with a view to a national opera chorus being established Access which has an involvement from all The Council takes the view that of the opera interests on the island. access to opera within the State and The company has a policy of giving on the island of Ireland generally is young Irish artists opportunities of too limited. It has encouraged, with securing stage experience through the support of its sister institution, employment in the chorus and the the Arts Council of Northern smaller roles. Employment opportu- Ireland, the two major opera nities for Irish singers is a matter companies, DGOS/Opera Ireland which the Council has taken up with and Opera Northern Ireland, to DGOS/ Opera Ireland and the other explore how best they can work companies on a number of occasions. together to maximise the funding from the two Councils in the interest Wexford Festival Opera of providing more opera north and Wexford Festival Opera has an south. The Council is also aware that international reputation for artistic Cork city, which has the only excellence and attracts significant purpose-built opera house in the numbers of overseas visitors to the Republic, is not being properly festival each year. served with professional opera. The 1994 festival achieved record This is a matter which concerns box office targets. As with virtually the Council. every other arts organisation in the
53 OPERA country, WFO enjoys the support of year, the Company toured ‘I Pagliacci’ hundreds of volunteers. in the version of Leoncavallo’s score Wexford Festival Opera presented and a new opera by Kenneth Chalmers Wagner’s ‘Das Liebesverbot’, called ‘Frankie’s’ as a double bill. Rubinstein’s ‘The Demon’ and In November 1994, with the Leoncavallo’s ‘La Bohème’ in 1994. support of IMRO, an intensive workshop of three new operas by Opera Theatre Company Irish composers - Elaine Agnew, It is the policy of Opera Theatre Marian Ingoldsby and Gráinne Company to tour accessible and Mulvey took place over two weeks. innovative opera productions OTC has a very active schools throughout Ireland. The company has programme and during the year sent also represented Ireland abroad – in an actor and singer team to a number England, the Czech Republic and it of schools Countrywide, where they has plans to tour in Belgium, Spain developed themes from the opera and Germany. It also closely accords ‘Flavio’ which was due to go on tour Opera Theatre Company’s with the Council’s wish regarding the later. OTC also facilitated transition employment of Irish artists. Early in year students in the creation of their production of 1994, OTC toured Handel’s little- own opera scenes during residencies known opera ‘Flavio’. Later in the at a variety of other schools. Handel’s Flavio, 1994.
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£ Awards Maria Fitzgerald 2,000 Marie Hegarty 200 Deirdre Masterson 400
ARTFLIGHT: 12 travel awards (in association with Aer Lingus) 1,578
Grants DGOS Opera Ireland 297,000 Opera Theatre Company 182,000 Wexford Festival Opera 234,000 ______713,000
Directly Promoted Activities Sundry 600
______Total as Note 3 (page 94) 717,778 ______
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Music/Traditional Music
Initiatives initiative, around fifteen recordings he Music expenditure for should appear over a three year 1994 amounted to £928,000, an period. This represents a significant increase of 18% on 1993. opportunity for Irish composers to T A major initiative during the year have their work distributed and was the Council’s decision to fund the heard throughout the world. relocation of the Irish Chamber Orchestra to a new base in the Projects in train Foundation Building at University of The Council intends to pursue its Limerick. The relocation of the existing policy of supporting other orchestra means the creation of some recording projects which feature the 13 new posts for musicians. work of Irish composers and among The orchestra plans to implement a projects assisted in 1994 are the wide-ranging programme of concert following: Circa Magazine / Roger performances in the Limerick region, Doyle, John Feeley – contemporary as well as nation-wide touring, guitar music, ACNI – new piano audience development initiatives, music, Ciaran Farrell CD project, and education and outreach work National Chamber Choir / Gerard in collaboration with established Victory, ICO, CMC, John Gibson organisations and local authorities. Piano Music, Nua Nós/Gerald John Kelly, Manager It also intends to play an active role in Barry, Vanbrugh Quartet / the commissioning and recording of Chandos Records. ICO, Fionnuala Hunt, new works of Irish composers. Another major initiative during Awards Leader ICO, and the year was the launch of the Irish The Council introduced a new Composers Series, which involves scheme of awards for conductors, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin the Arts Council, RTE and the and these awards are intended to Marco Polo subsidiary of NAXOS assist with development and training at the launch of Records. Its purpose is to produce of Irish conductors through commercial recordings of orchestral attendance at short-term courses re-location of ICO, music by Irish composers with overseas or, on a more longterm particular emphasis on music by basis. There were seven awards July 1994. living composers. Under this made during the year.
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Jazz looking at ways of addressing this gap In jazz , the Council supported a in provision in coming years. The number of very successful educational Council also continued to provide events and performances in jazz and significant funding to a number of improvised music including the key organisations in traditional music Third Annual Jazz Summer School at - Taisce Cheol Duchais Éireann/Irish Jordanstown and a series of Traditional Music Archive which workshops featuring world class announced an important initiative musicians such as Keith Copeland, involving RTE’s audio and visual Hugh Fraser and Sean Toussant. The archives which will be made Council has worked closely with the accessible to the public for the first Arts Council of Northern Ireland and time. The Council continued its the Improvised Music Company in support for the music organisations pursuing its jazz policy and the results based within 15 Henrietta Street, have had considerable impact on the Dublin, a thriving centre for the development of the contemporary jazz traditional arts in the inner city. scene in Ireland. Popular Music Traditional Music The Council provided continued The Council continued to support a support for MusicBase which wide range of events in all parts of functions as a resource, information, Ireland including festivals in advice and consultancy service for the Ennistymon, Inishowen, Sliabh popular music sector, and the Council Gullion and a range of high quality also made awards under the summer schools based mainly on the ARTFLIGHT scheme to ninety six west coast of Ireland for example, individuals involved in popular music Willie Clancy, Cairdeas na bhFidleiri, to enable them attend showcase Scoil Acla, The Council has noted the events, seminars, workshops, absence of any traditional music interviews, meetings, and generally to summer school on the east coast of engage in beneficial business interests the country or in the midlands and is through overseas travel.
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Aosdána £ Aosdána: Cnuais to 7 composers 56,000 Awards Elaine Agnew 500 Deborah Armstrong 400 Martin Barrett 300 Celine Barry 750 Melanie Briggs 250 David Brophy 500 Dearbhla Brosnan 500 Brian Byrne 500 Colm Byrne 1,125 Johanna Byrne 700 Emma Canavan 1,250 Julia Canavan (Dublin Corporation Scholarship) 1,500 Aisling Casey 1,250 Anna Cashell 1,500 Maria Cleary 1,500 Gareth Costello 1,250 Niamh Crowley 1,000 Leonie Curtin 750 Declan Daly 2,250 Diane Daly 2,000 Gary Deaton 200 Ronán de Burca 1,500 Seán de Burca 500 Colette Delahunt 750 Donncha Dennehy 1,250 Susan Doyle 550 Aileen Dullaghan 1,664 Mary Dullea 750 Adrian Gallagher 750 Deirdre Gribbin 750 Kevin Hanafin 450 Fiona Hearun 825 Ruth Hickey 50 Ian Hogan 1,375 Lorna Horan 500 Michael Joyce 1,000 Bridget Knowles 750 ______c/fwd 89,389
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£ b/fwd 89,389 Hilda Leader 1,000 Catherine Leonard 1,000 Owen Lorigan 700 Siobhán Lynch 2,000 Hilary Macken 100 Fiona McAndrew 1,500 Philip McDermott 1,000 Emer McDonagh 1,250 Lisa McLoughlin 1,250 Mark McLoughlin 750 Charles Marshall 1,000 Michelle Mason 400 Samantha Miller 500 Kieran Moynihan 100 Patricia Moynihan 1,250 Gráinne Mulvey 2,000 Miriam Murphy 500 Clíodhna Ní Aodáin 1,000 Úna Ní Chonchuir 1,500 Niamh Ní Chonnaill 1,500 Roisín Ní Dhúill 750 Dairine Ní Mheadhra 720 Eamonn Nolan 625 Marie O’Brien 750 Joe O’Callaghan / Skidmore Jazz School, New York 1,490 Aisling O’Dea 1,500 Cliona O’Driscoll 450 Cathal Ó Duill 1,500 Riona Ó Duinnin 450 Cormac Ó hAodaín 700 Honor O’Hea 2,000 Deirdre O’Leary 1,000 Shane O’Neill 400 Conor O’Riordan 350 Orla Palliser 500 Iolana Petcu-Colan 1,000 ______c/fwd 123,874
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£ b/fwd 123,874 Gerard Peregrine 250 Kathie Prince 50 Carol Quigley 500 Lisa Quinn 250 Sarah Quinn 1,250 Cliodhna Ryan 1,500 Maryanne Ryan 450 Peter Shannon 1,500 Fergus Sheil 500 Edel Sullivan 300 Nicky Sweeney 2,000 Louise Thomas 1,000 Jennifer Walsh 700 Franzita Whelan 750
ARTFLIGHT: 236 travel awards (in association with Aer Lingus) 34,788 ______169,662
New Music Commission Scheme Elaine Agnew 1,000 John Buckley 350 Seamus de Barra 1,500 Raymond Deane 4,100 Roger Doyle 1,600 John Gibson 900 Ronan Guilfoyle 1,200 Donal Hurley 1,000 Marian Ingoldsby 1,450 Grainne Mulvey 900 Jane O’Leary 350 Gerard Victory 1,000 ______Total / Aosdána, Awards and Commissions c/fwd 185,012
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£ b/fwd 185,012 Grants to organisations and performing groups Alternative Entertainments, Tallaght 9,000 Concorde 5,000 Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin 91,818 Cumann Cheol Tíre Éireann 1,650 Cumann Náisiúnta na gCór 43,500 Improvised Music Company 9,400 Irish Chamber Orchestra 81,000 Arts Council of Northern Ireland / Jazz Workshop 307 Music Base, Dublin 81,000 The Music Network 93,500 Nua Nós 2,500 Opera Theatre Company 1,800 Na Píobairí Uilleann 23,200 Na Píobairí Uilleann/Cumann Cheol Tíre Éireann 13,633 Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann 110,232 Concert Promotion Clifden Arts Society 3,250 Cork Orchestral Society 6,500 Limerick Music Association 8,500 Project Arts Centre 3,500 Music for Galway 17,000 Waterford Music Club 3,400 Events Clare Festival of Traditional Singing 1,909 Cork International Choral Festival 20,200 Dublin International Organ and Choir Festival 10,000 Éigse na Laoi 4,500 Féile Chomortha Joe Éiniú 400 Inishowen Traditional Singers Circle 1,409 Sean-Nós Cois Life 450 Slieve Gullion Festival of Traditional Singing 706 Recordings/Publications Audio Arts Radio Transmission 2,500 Circa Publications 1,500 Contemporary Music Centre 9,000 ______c/fwd 847,276
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£ b/fwd 847,276 John Gibson 3,500 Irish Chamber Orchestra 3,500 University of Limerick (Thematic Index of Irish Traditional Music) 2,000 Padraigín Ní Uallacháin (recording project) with Arts Council of Northern Ireland 1,009
Education and Young People Adrian Gebruers/St Colman’s Cathedral – Carillon Project 1,500 Bannow Folk and Traditional Organisation 1,500 Belfast Folk Festival 738 Cairde na Cruite 500 Cairdeas na bhFidléirí 3,800 Coiste Forbartha Ceantair Mhín an Aoire 200 Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Éireann, Ballisodare 1,000 Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Éireann, Lixnaw 500 Cork Folk Festival 800 Drake Music Project Ireland 10,000 Dublin Cello Choir 200 Ennis Composition Summer School 5,347 Féile an Éanaigh 180 Féile Caomhán, Inis Oírr 400 International Jazz Summer School at Jordanstown 3,133 Irish Pipe Band Association 5,275 Irish Youth Wind Ensemble 3,000 Kerry County Council 630 Killarney Folk Club 420 Kodaly Society of Ireland 350 Leixlip Salmon Festival 350 Michael Coleman Heritage Centre 250 Michael Shanley Traditional Weekend 250 Newpark Music Centre, Dublin 1,275 North East Traditional Arts 600 Northern Ireland Symphony Summer School 261 O’Carolan Harp Weekend 200 Oideas Gael 750 O’Keefe Festival 500 ______c/fwd 901,194
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£ b/fwd 901,194 Scoil Acla 2,500 Scoil Leacht Uí Chonchuir 2,200 Scoil Samhraidh Liatroma 1,500 Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy 15,000 South Sligo Summer School 3,000
Previous year’s grants not required (1,500) ______Total/Aosdana, Awards, Grants 923,894
Directly Promoted Activities Sundry 5,045 ______Total as Note 3 (page 94) 928,939 ______
Marten Toonder Award (Trust Fund) Jane O’Leary, composer 3,500 ______
Grants Received Arts Council of Northern Ireland 32,344 Dublin Corporation 1,500 ______33,844 ______
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Arts Centres
Capital and Piercestown. The centre also 994 was a year of considerable initiated a cultural exchange activity for Arts Centres. On the programme with Fishguard in Wales, capital development front, the which is seen by both partners as 1 highlight of the year was the having much future potential. official opening by the Minister for Linenhall Arts Centre in the Environment, Michael Smith, Castlebar, also initiated a major T.D., of Droichead Arts Centre in community arts and education project Drogheda. This development, an with Linenhoods, a group of young initiative of Louth County Council artists and animators who work in and Drogheda Corporation, community and school settings. The combines independent library and first production met with critical and arts centre units within the same popular acclaim. Municipal complex and represents a Continuing its partnership with milestone in the integration of arts Wet Paint Arts, City Arts Centre centres into the very core of civic staged a mass gathering of and social life in Ireland. Among the drummers for a wide range of first year’s activities at the centre workshops and performances in the was a series of residencies grant- largest participatory percussion aided by the Ireland Funds and festival ever seen in Dublin. featuring visual artists Raymond Henshawe and Amanda Innovation Montgomery, musician Elaine In terms of innovation and success, Agnew and Writer Dermot Healy. the Project Arts Centre in Dublin had one of the most impressive years of Access activity since the foundation of the Wexford Arts Centre, with organisation in 1967. To encourage assistance from the Gulbenkian critical debate about its work and the Foundation launched its innovative work of contemporary artists in Rural Community Arts Project. general the centre commenced Local artist Patrick Darigan acted as publication of an arts journal. An a lynchpin for a broad range of exceptional season of dance, both projects in County Wexford towns national and international, was hosted, and villages such as Kilrane, Tagoat including a visit by Diversions Dance
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Theatre from Wales. The Project Relationships continued in its tradition of breaking In 1994, the Council started to look new ground with several Live Art and at its relationship with Arts Centres, Performance Art shows. Model Arts and towards the end of the year Centre, Sligo continued the established an Arts Centres Review development of its large scale visual Group to take an overview of the arts programme. In Cork the Triskel activities of arts centres in general Arts Centre consolidated its strengths and to inform the Council’s policy in film and interdisciplinary arts. in this area.
£ Grants Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick 89,000 City Arts Centre, Dublin 100,400 Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda 34,200 Galway Arts Centre 59,000 Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford 79,000 Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar 54,000 Midland Arts Resource Centre, Mullingar 2,000 Model Arts Centre, Sligo 24,500 Project Arts Centre, Dublin 151,500 Siamsa Tíre, Tralee (see also page 13) 82,000 St John’s Heritage Centre, Listowel 22,200 Triskel Arts Centre, Cork 99,000 West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen 30,300 Wexford Arts Centre 72,800
ARTFLIGHT: 9 travel awards (in association with Aer Lingus) 1,457
Sundry 1,383 ______Total as Note 3 (page 94) 902,740 ______
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Education, Young People and Children
Policy longer be expected to mask the 994 was an important year in the inactivity of the educational system in development of Arts council policy the area of the arts. Whilst schools in the area of education and young would still be regarded as important 1 people. It saw a 43% increase in points of access to the arts for young expenditure in this area bringing the people, the Arts Council would total to £431,000. The Council’s increase its support for initiatives stated commitment to achieving outside of the formal education system adequate levels of appropriate – initiatives which recognised young provision in the arts for young people people as a distinctive audience and was given particular focus by the facilitated their participation in the policy review process undertaken. arts on this basis. In the context of the preparation of The Arts Plan, 1995–97. Funding The consultative process The increased focus on the need for undertaken by the Arts Council improved provision for young people generated a considerable number of was emphasised by the Arts Council’s submissions from individuals and decision to concentrate on projects for organisations concerned directly with young people in allocating the New arts education and arts provision for Initiatives Fund. This is a fund of young people in general. More £100,000 established by the Arts significant in some ways, was the Council in 1994 in order to encourage virtual consensus (evident in the bulk innovative practice. The National of the submissions received) that Chamber Choir’s children’s opera educational issues are central to any programme and the Children’s discussion concerned with the Cultural Centre in Temple Bar development of the arts in Ireland. received significant support under ‘The Wizard of Oz’ In this context, Ciarán Benson, this scheme and the funding of the Chairperson of the Arts Council, Education Travel Awards Scheme project, St Michaels in an address to the Music in the was substantially improved. This Classroom Conference in May, scheme provides individuals working Junior National School, indicated a significant change in the in an arts and education context to Arts Council education policy. The undertake further education, training County Cavan. Arts Council, he stated, could no and research abroad.
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Schools this area – Cork Film Festival, Temple In general improved provision for Bar Gallery and Studios, City Arts Education in 1994 allowed for further Centre, Galway Arts Centre, EV+A consolidation in the area of the Arts and a number of local authorities Council’s support for arts in education throughout the country. The Artists in services to schools. The number of Schools Scheme was extended to meet schools supported under the Artist in the demand from Local Authority Arts Residence in Schools Scheme Officers operating the scheme on increased to 18 and the sixth of the behalf of the Arts Council. In line with series of specially commissioned the Arts Council’s commitment to exhibitions for schools, ‘Inside Out’ young people outside of the formal was launched in Monaghan in education system, increased support October. The Writers in Schools was provided for organisations Scheme continued to meet the demand operating in this area. National for readings by Irish writers in Association for Youth Drama, Galway primary and post-primary schools Youth Theatre and Waterford Youth throughout the country. TEAM and Drama received substantially Graffiti received significant increases improved funding in 1994. Individual and continued to provide schools with projects such as Community Video high quality theatre in education Productions video summer school programmes. Other arts in education for young people in Skibbereen were services supported by the Arts also supported. Council in 1994 included the Music Association of Ireland’s Schools Making Youth Arts Work Recital/Workshop programmes, The most important development in Daghda’s dance in education youth arts was the unprecedented programme and the innovative decision by the Arts Council and the Educators Award programme Department of Education’s Youth introduced by the Pushkin Prizes Affairs Section to jointly implement Trust in 1994, a programme also (on a phased basis) the recommen- supported by ACNI. dations of the report of the National Youth Arts Committee - Making Youth Education and Outreach Programmes Arts Work, published in April 1993. The provision of education and Under the Joint Youth Arts Initiative outreach programmes by arts organi- both agencies created a fund of £60,000 sations represents a significant growth to allow for the appointment of a Youth area within arts provision as a whole. Arts Development Officer in each of The Arts Council’s response to this four organisations, the National Youth development in 1994 was to increase Council of Ireland, The National support for organisations operating in Association for Youth Drama, the
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Dance Council of Ireland and development and its implications MusicBase. The Youth Arts for the Arts Council’s future role Monitoring Committee was in the area of education will not established by both agencies to assess become fully apparent until the the impact of the initiative on the arts Arts Plan and, to some extent also, in youth work in the crucial first year. the White Paper on Education are The initiative was formally launched implemented. One thing that is in November 1994 and will be clear at this stage, however, is that reviewed in April 1995. the interaction between the arts and education is now far more White Paper on Education complex than it was five years ago. 1994 represented a year of The policy and funding strategies considerable development in the pursued in 1994 represent the area of education. The full extent Arts Council’s efforts to address a of the changes suggested by such changed environment.
£ Awards Geraldine Fitzgerald 450 Geraldine Geoghegan 850 Patricia Glynn 1,350 Claire Keegan 850 Una Kelly 450 Susie Kennedy 1,000 Linda King 1,000 Una McInerney 800 Enda McMullan 450 Eilis Mullan 290 Padraig Naughton 500 Rory O’Conor 850 Carmel O’Sullivan 1,300 Susan Rogers 175 Michael John Ryan 700 Muireann Seoighe 500 ______c/fwd 11,515
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£ b/fwd 11,515 ARTFLIGHT: 19 travel awards (in association with Aer Lingus) 2,008 ______13,523
Grants Barnstorm Theatre Company 3,500 Butler Gallery 1,000 Ceol Chumann na nÓg 3,100 Community Video Productions 2,000 Cork Film Festival 2,000 Cork Spastic Clinic 1,000 Dance Council of Ireland 7,500 Donegal County Council 400 Douglas Hyde Gallery 1,500 Dublin Junior Film Festival 12,000 Galway Arts Centre 5,000 Galway Youth Theatre 9,000 Graffiti Theatre Company, Cork 65,000 Íomha Ildánach Theatre 5,000 Laois County Council 400 Limerick Exhibition of Visual Art 2,500 Mary Immaculate Training College 1,000 Music Association of Ireland 19,600 MusicBase 7,500 National Association for Youth Drama 36,200 National Youth Council of Ireland 7,500 TEAM Theatre Company 145,800 Temple Bar Gallery & Studios 10,000 Triskel Arts Centre 800 Waterford Youth Drama 4,000
Artists-in-Schools Grants Bennekerry National School, Co. Carlow 1,200 Bray School Project 1,200 Castlerea Community College 1,200 Coláiste Rathín, Wicklow 1,200 ______c/fwd 371,623
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£ c/fwd 371,623 Limerick School Project 1,200 Mary Immaculate Training College 1,750 Mean Scoil Mhuire, Galway 1,200 Mercy National School 1,200 North Bay Project, Dublin 1,200 Portmarnock Community School 1,200 Rathangan National School, Wexford 1,200 Rutland Street National School, Dublin 2,000 St Andrew’s & Sunbeam House School, Bray 1,200 St Dominic’s High School, Sutton 1,200 St Patrick’s College, Killala 1,200 St Patrick’s College of Education 2,000 Scoil Stíofáin Naofa, Corcaí 1,200 Whitegate Primary School, Cork 1,200
Previous year’s grant not required (150)
______Total/Awards and Grants 390,423 ______
Directly Promoted Activities Writers-in-Schools 11,353 Schools exhibitions 24,100 Sundry 5,303 ______40,756 ______
Total as Note 3 (page 94) 431,179 ______
Grant Received Department of Education (Young Arts) 30,000 ______
73 Les Freres Topolines, July 1994. (Photograph by Aengus McMahon) ANNUAL REPORT 1994
Arts Development in the Regions
County Arts Officers project attracted artists and viewers here was an increase in from all over Ireland and abroad. expenditure on Regions for Three local authorities received 1994 of 17% bringing the total to awards under the Council’s pilot Inter- T £405,000. Arts development Disciplinary Commissions Scheme. throughout Ireland continued its Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County expansion in 1994. One indication of Council is working with a group of the level of growth is manifest in the young artists to create a temporary ‘city’ increasing numbers of County Arts in various parks and green spaces in the Officers appointed. New posts were County. South Dublin County Council created in Wexford, Limerick County initiated a multi-media commission, and Roscommon and the three new ‘Kangaroo Rats’ which will be a newly Dublin local authorities entered their created performance piece exploring the first year of existence with an arts concept of security, security personnel officer already in place. By the end of and observation in the Tallaght area. 1994 twenty arts officers were in place. Similarly, Limerick Corporation, through the City Gallery, received Local Authorities support for a collaborative project based To consolidate its relationship with local on the work of Amelia Stein, Nuala Ni authorities, the Arts Council, as part of Dhomhnaill and Cindy Cummings. its own planning process in 1994, invited Clare County Council launched Local Authorities to prepare three year its successful record label ‘Kerbstone’ development plans for the arts. These in 1994, the first release being d’flute plans will form the basis of negotiated album by Kevin Crawford. The three-year funding agreements between Council also published its first annual the Council and local authorities and Arts Report for County Clare. therefore provide a framework for future The search by County Arts regional arts development. Officers for new and innovative ways The network of County Arts to develop the arts at local level is Officers generated a huge range of ongoing. Important work in this area activity in 1994. The Laois Sculpture has been undertaken by Dundalk Trail was one of the highlights of the Urban District Council, where the arts year. It involved the commissioning of officer was instrumental in establishing six stoneworks which were placed in a local arts network on a pilot basis as the principal towns of the county. The part of the Artform programme.
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The network drew in membership community development workers from key development agencies from County Louth. The experimental locally, including the County Library project was closely evaluated and the network, the Museum, the Sports findings will inform various training Centre and arts organisations and programmes currently in preparation.
Local authority arts officers: Cavan County Council Catriona O’Reilly Clare County Council Eugene Crimmins (until August 1995) Donegal County Council Traolach Ó Fionnáin Dublin Corporation Jack Gilligan Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown County Council Cliodhna Shaffrey Fingal County Council Rory O’Byrne Galway County Council James Harrold Kerry County Council Máire Hearty (until December 1994) Liz Cullotty (from March 1995) Kildare County Council Monica Corcoran (until August 1994) Mary Lenehan (from July 1994) Kilkenny County Council Margaret Cosgrave Laois County Council Muireann Ní Chonaill Limerick County Council Joan McKernan Limerick Corporation Sheila Deegan Dundalk UDC Brian Harten Mayo County Council John Coll Monaghan County Council Somhairle Mac Conghaile Roscommon County Council Emer Leavy South Dublin County Council Gina Kelly Wexford County Council Loraine Comer Waterford Corporation Mary MacAuliffe (from March 1995)
Awards £ Monica Corcoran 100 Brian Harten 150 ARTFLIGHT: 15 travel awards (in association with Aer Lingus) 1,812 Grants Local Authority Arts Programme Grants: Cavan County Council 10,000 Clare County Council 10,000 Donegal County Council 15,000 ______c/fwd 37,062
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£ c/fwd 37,062 Dundalk Urban District Council 5,000 Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council 4,000 Fingal County Council 2,000 Galway County Council 10,000 Kildare County Council 10,000 Kilkenny County Council 10,000 Laois County Council 10,000 Limerick Corporation 10,000 Limerick County Council 2,000 Mayo County Council 10,000 Monaghan County Council 10,000 South Dublin County Council 2,000 Wexford County Council 2,000
Pay Cost Grants to 17 Local Authorities______143,925 267,987 Other Grants Tyrone Guthrie Centre 130,700 Beyond Borders, Inishowen 1,000 Clonmel Gallery Arts Centre 900 Donegal Workshop Theatre 1,000 Macra na Feirme 10,000 South-East Media Arts 3,000
Previous year’s grants not required______(32,054) Total/Grants 382,533 ______
Directly Promoted Activities 1993 Conference: Network of Area-Based Arts Development Administrators 2,472 Capital Research Project 10,030 Local Authority Arts Plan 8,993 Sundry______477 ______21,972
Total as Note 3 (page 94)______404,505
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Community Arts and Festivals
Policy Development CAFE and the Arts Plan Creative Activity for Everyone 994 saw an increase in Community (CAFE) continued its developmental Arts and Festivals expenditure of role as the umbrella body for 56%, bringing it to £548,000. The community arts nationwide and 1 principal activity of the Department prepared its own 1995/97 in 1994 concerned the writing of The Development Plan. The CAFE/ Arts Plan. Many welcome submissions Combat Poverty Agency Community were received from activists in the Arts Pilot Programme continued, sector of community arts and festivals. boosted by funds from HORIZON, The Arts Council decided to place the (an EU programme). At local level, the idea of an area-based approach at the Pilot Programme assisted five projects: heart of the Arts Plan and it decided PARC/Coolock; North Wall Women’s further to write the plan interlinking the Centre/The Balcony Belles; fields of community arts, festivals, Pléaráca/Conamara; travellers’ projects education, youth arts, regional in Dublin, Ennis and Tullamore; and development and arts centres. In this the Knocknaheeny/ Hollyhill project in way, the Council has placed community Cork. The Pilot Programme also ran arts at the heart of The Arts Plan. This two regional programmes, one in Sligo represents an updating of previous under Wendy Winter and one in Cork major policy statements in the field of under Míchéal Ó Muirthile. CAFE community arts. also helped to stimulate arts activity In The Arts Plan, the Council in Co. Offaly where a project was states: ‘Community arts emphasises held in September to encourage the value of direct participation in arts festivals in Edenderry, Tullamore and activity by all sectors of society. As a Birr. A third edition of the compre- creative practice which results in new hensive Funding Handbook was Galway Arts Festival works of art where participants have a published in 1994. direct input, community arts is Parade 1994, Macnas primarily an enabling activity, Macnas targeted in particular at women’s Macnas staged the largest modern ‘Tribes’. (Photograph groups, those living in poverty, community arts event ever produced persons with disabilities and other in Ireland when it mounted the by Aengus McMahon). marginalised groups in society’. community spectacle entitled ‘May
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Day Cavalcade’ in Dublin to celebrate future of the Arts Centre. (The report the centenary of the Irish trades union was published in June 1995 and was movement. It comprised a cast of launched by Minister Michael D. 5,000 people and was transmitted live Higgins at the Arts Council). on RTE Television. The company’s Galway Arts Festival parade was ‘The APIC Centre Ferocious O’Flahertys’ and it featured The Council welcomed the creation of a celebration of the 14 Tribes of Awareness Publishing Information Galway and was witnessed by up to Communication (APIC), the organi- 40,000 people. Maceolas, the training sation which strives to bring together division of Macnas, concluded its first the world of disability and the world major training course and produced its of the arts. The Council grant-aided first graduates, many of whom then two issues of ‘The Bridge’ magazine, formed their own companies, such as which is produced by APIC. Buí Bolg in Wexford and Magadh Puppet Co. in Galway. One Year Community Arts Residency/Finglas Partnership Tallaght Community Arts Centre The Council initiated a pilot The Arts Council worked with programme in Finglas with the Tallaght Arts Forum, the represen- Finglas Area-Based Partnership. tative organisation of arts activists in This is the first One Year Tallaght, and with South Dublin Co. Community Arts Residency and Council on the development of was led by Community Artist, Tallaght Community Arts Centre at Jackie O’Keeffe. The work Virginia House, beside the Square. consisted of the formulation of a The Centre opened in Autumn 1995. plan for Finglas in the fields of music and arts buildings. The Arts Blanchardstown Arts Centre Council believes that the scheme The Arts Council grant-aided the provides a clear road to the future Greater Blanchardstown Arts Centre as it is rooted firmly in the area- Committee to produce a report on the based planning approach.
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Awards £ ARTFLIGHT: 39 travel awards (in association with Aer Lingus) 6,038
Grants
Organisations Alternative Entertainments, Tallaght (see also Traditional Arts) 20,300 APIC Cooperative Centre 1,500 Boann/Drogheda Womens Artists 500 C.A.F.E/Creative Activity for Everyone (see also page 13) 22,600 City Arts Centre 11,500 Dublin Youth Theatre 13,000 Finglas Partnership 1,000 FORCE 10 Magazine, Sligo 3,000 Galway Association for Mentally Handicapped 2,050 Greater Blanchardstown Arts Committee 3,000 Macnas, Galway 82,100 Meath Arts Group 2,000 Tallaght Arts Forum 1,000 Theatre Omnibus, Limerick 49,300 The Works 3,000 Wet Paint Arts, Dublin 65,000
Festivals Africa Project, Dublin 4,505 Athenry Festival 1,000 Athlone Festival 500 Ballina Salmon Festival 2,000 Ballymun Festival 1,000 Boyle Arts Festival 6,000 Clifden Community Arts Week 7,000 Clondalkin Arts Festival 1,000 Cootehill Arts Festival 2,000 Dalkey Sound Arts 1,000 Dublin 15 Community Arts Festival 3,000 Dublin Literacy Summer School 1,000 Éigse Carlow 7,000 Galway Arts Festival 94,000 Gerard Manley Hopkins Society, Portarlington 250 ______c/fwd 418,143
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£ b/fwd 418,143 Graffiti Theatre Company / Activate Festival 1,500 Island Trust 1,000 Kilkenny Arts Week 45,200 Samhlaíocht Chiarraí 3,000 Sligo Community Arts Group 22,200 South Docks Festival 500 Waterford Spraoi 2,000 Westport Arts Festival 2,000 Writers Week, Listowel 2,000
Artist-in-the-Community Projects Artquake, Co. Monaghan 2,000 ART UN Limited 1,500 Choices Community Group 1,500 City Artsquad 1,500 Darndale/Belcamp Resource Centre 2,000 Dublin in Depth 3,560 Ferns Diocesan Youth Services 2,000 Grangemockler Camphill 1,000 I.R.D. Kiltimagh 1,500 Kildare Youth Services 1,500 Knockmay Women’s Community 1,750 Loughboy Resource Centre 1,000 Loughlinstown Employment 1,000 Merchants Quay Project 500 Model Arts Centre, Sligo 1,000 Mountwood Fitzgerald Community Development 1,500 National Maternity Hospital 1,500 Oideas Gael 2,000 Rehabilitation Institute 750 Southill Community Services, Limerick 750 Triskel Arts Centre 2,000 Tullamore Travellers 750 West Cork Arts Centre 1,000 Western Health Board 1,500 ______c/fwd 532,603
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£ c/fwd 532,603 Policy & Training Grants Macnas Training 15,000 Wet Paint Theatre Company 8,000
Previous year’s grants not required (8,500)
Directly Promoted Activities 956 ______Total as Note 3 (page 94) 548,059 ______
Grant Received Gulbenkian Foundation (Africa Festival) 2,505 ______
CAPITAL
Grants National Theatre Society (Abbey and Peacock Theatres), Dublin (see also page 45) 100,000 Black Church Print Studio, Dublin 21,142 Cork Bronze Company, Aghabullogue, Co. Cork 10,000 Donegal V.E.C./Árainn Mór Arts Centre 5,000 Drogheda Corporation/Droichead Arts Centre 20,000 Droichead Arts Centre 5,000 Dublin Tourism/Dublin Writers Museum 75,000 Fire Station Artists Studios, Dublin 127,000 Galway Arts Centre 3,000 Kilkenny Corporation/Watergate Theatre 4,750 Limerick Corporation/Limerick Artists Studios 25,000 Na Piobairi Uilleann/Cumann Cheol Tíre Éireann 4,567 Tyrone Guthrie Centre 19,789 Wexford Festival Trust 50,000 ______Total as Note 3 (page 94) 470,248 ______
Grant Received Tyrone Guthrie Trust 19,790 ______
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Grants
Arts Management Awards £ Stella Coffey 1,000 Kymberly Dunne 580 Patricia Long 1,900
Minimum Income Guarantee 8,000 COTHÚ/Irish Business Council for the Arts 1,000 Temple Bar Properties: Economy of the Arts Conference 5,000 ARTFORM research project 5,000
ARTFLIGHT: 16 travel awards 3,484
New Initiative Grants Children’s Cultural Centre / The Ark, Dublin 15,000 Dún Laoghaire/Rathdown Co. Council 14,655 Galway Arts Festival 2,500 Lambert Puppet Festival, Dún Laoghaire 15,000 Music for Wexford 750 National Chamber Choir 12,000 Rehabilitation Institute, Dublin 13,000 South Dublin County Council 10,000 Wet Paint Theatre Company, Dublin 6,000 ______Total Grants 114,869
Directly Promoted Activities Aosdána: Administration 10,851 Aosdána: Pension Scheme 20,226
European Affairs 8,950 L’Imaginaire Irlandais 63,109 FORCE training project 36,949 ______c/fwd 254,954
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£ b/fwd 254,954 Art Matters 9,480 Annual Report 7,050 Awards Schemes 20,017 The Arts Plan, 1995–97 40,696 Other Reports 70,006 Sundry 20,041 ______Total as Note 3 (page 94) 422,244 ______
Grants Received Arts Council of Northern Ireland: ARTFLIGHT 15,320 Department of Arts , Culture & the Gaeltacht: L’Imaginaire Irlandais 59,596 European Union: FORCE 34,723 L’Imaginaire Irlandais: ARTFLIGHT 2,633 Temple Bar Properties 5,000 ______Total as Note 2 (page 93) 117,272 ______
85 Autumn River 2/10 by Felicity Clear, Etching 1994. ANNUAL REPORT 1994
An Chomhairle Ealaíon Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 1994 REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL I have audited the financial statements on pages 89 to 99. Responsibilities of the Council and of the Comptroller and Auditor General The Council is responsible under Section 6(1) of the Arts Act, 1951, for the keeping of accounts of its income and expenditure. It is my responsibility, under Section 6(2), to audit the financial statements presented to me by the Council and to report on them. As the result of my audit I form an independent opinion on the financial statements. Basis of Opinion In the exercise of my function as Comptroller and Auditor General, I plan and perform my audit in a way which takes account of the special considerations which attach to State bodies in relation to their management and operation. An audit includes examination, on a test basis, of evidence relevant to the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. It also includes an assessment of the significant estimates and judgements made in the preparation of the financial statements and of whether the accounting policies are appropriate, consistently applied and adequately disclosed. My audit was conducted in accordance with auditing standards which embrace the standards issued by the Auditing Practices Board and in order to provide sufficient evidence to give reasonable assurance that the financial statements are free from material misstatement whether caused by fraud or other irregularity or error. I obtained all the information and explanations that I required to enable me to fulfil my function as Comptroller and Auditor General and, in forming my opinion, I also evaluated the overall adequacy of the presentation of information in the financial statements. Opinion In my opinion, proper books of account have been kept by the Council and the financial statements, which are in agreement with them, give a true and fair view of the state of the affairs of An Chomhairle Ealaíon at 31 December 1994 and of its income and expenditure and cash flow for the year then ended.
18 September 1995 John Purcell Treasury Building Comptroller and Auditor General Dublin Castle 87 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE COUNCIL
Section 6 (1) of the Arts Act, 1951, requires the Council to keep accounts in such form as may be approved by the Minister for Finance. In keeping such accounts and preparing financial statements, the Council is required: to select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; to make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; to prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate that An Chomhairle Ealaíon should continue in operation.
The Council is responsible for keeping proper books of account which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of An Chomhairle Ealaíon and which enable it to ensure that the financial statements comply with Section 6 (1) of the Act. The Council also is responsible for safeguarding the assets of An Chomhairle Ealaíon and for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Ciarán Benson Chairperson
Eithne Healy Council Member
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STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND PRINCIPLES
1. General An Chomhairle Ealaíon is an independent body set up pursuant to the Arts Acts 1951 and 1973 to promote and assist the arts.
2. Basis of Accounting The financial statements are prepared under the historical cost convention.
3. Oireachtas Grant Income shown as Oireachtas Grant-in-Aid is the actual cash received in the year from the Vote for An Chomhairle Ealaíon (£8,206,000) and the Vote for Increases in Remuneration (£109,000). Income from the National Lottery is also the cash received in the year.
4. Fixed Assets Fixed assets are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation which is charged at rates calculated to write-off the cost of each asset over its expected useful life on a straight line basis, as follows: Furniture and Equipment – over 5 years. There is no depreciation charge in the year of disposal of fixed assets. Works of art are stated at cost and are not depreciated.
5. Capital Account The Capital Account represents the unamortised amount of income used to acquire fixed assets. The transfer to or from the Income and Expenditure Account represents the net change in the book value of fixed assets.
6. Bad Debts Provision is made for any doubtful debts which then are written-off in the year in which it is recognised that they have become irrecoverable.
7. Superannuation The Council’s contributions to superannuation costs are charged to the Income and Expenditure Account in the period to which they relate and over the length of an employee’s service or of membership of Aosdána.
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AN CHOMHAIRLE EALAI´ ON
INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT for the year ended 31 December 1994
1994 1993 Notes IR£ IR£ Income Oireachtas Grant-in-aid 8,315,000 6,568,000 National Lottery (1) 4,988,000 4,988,000 Other Grants (2) 320,911 225,943 Other Income 40,959 21,921 ______13,664,870 11,803,864 ______
Current Expenditure Expenditure on the arts (3) 12,625,798 10,835,670 Administration (4) 932,875 814,932 ______13,558,673 11,650,602 ______
Surplus 106,197 153,262 Transfer to Capital Account (6) (46,893) (14,868) ______
Net Surplus for the year 59,304 138,394
Accumulated deficit brought forward (47,313) (185,707) ______Accumulated surplus / (deficit) carried forward 11,991 (47,313) ______
The Statement of Accounting Policies and Principles and Notes 1 to 12 form part of these financial statements.
Ciarán Benson Adrian Munnelly Chairperson Director
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BALANCE SHEET at 31 December 1994 1994 1993 Notes IR£ IR£ Fixed Assets (5) 356,577 309,684
Financial Assets: Trust Funds (7) 156,928 155,227 Loans (8) 390,100 272,049
Current Assets: Grants paid in advance 102,752 31,151 Debtors and prepayments 86,512 64,913 Bank 210,869 237,365 ______400,133 333,429 ______Current Liabilities: Creditors and accruals 202,842 130,879 ARTFORM project 5,369 96,060 Grants outstanding 570,031 425,852 ______778,242 652,791 ______
Net Current Liabilities (378,109) (319,362) ______Total Assets less Current Liabilities 525,496 417,598 ______
Represented by: Capital Account (6) 356,577 309,684 Income and Expenditure Account: Surplus/(Deficit) 11,991 (47,313) Trust Funds (7) 156,928 155,227 ______525,496 417,598 ______
The Statement of Accounting Policies and Principles and Notes 1 to 12 form part of these financial statements.
Ciarán Benson Adrian Munnelly Chairperson Director
11 September 1995 91 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
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CASH FLOW STATEMENT for the year ended 31 December 1994
1994 1993 IR£ IR£ Net cash inflow from operating activities 64,847 203,110 ______
Investing activities: Payments for fixed assets (91,343) (50,694) ______Net cash outflow from investing activities (91,343) (50,694) ______(Decrease)/Increase in cash and cash equivalents (26,496) 152,416 Cash and cash equivalents at 1 January 237,365 84,949 ______Cash and cash equivalents at 31 December 210,869 237,365 ______
Reconciliation of operating surplus to net cash inflow from operating activities:
Operating surplus 59,304 138,394 Depreciation 49,481 35,826 Transfer to capital account 46,893 14,868 (Increase)/Decrease in debtors (21,599) 69,246 (Increase)/Decrease in grants paid in advance (71,601) 11,349 (Decrease)/Increase in creditors (23,759) 54,520 Increase in grants outstanding 144,179 5,140 Loans advanced (233,799) (192,940) Loans repaid 115,748 62,947 Loans written-off – 3,760 ______Net cash inflow from operating activities 64,847 203,110 ______
Ciarán Benson Adrian Munnelly Chairperson Director
11 September 1995
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NOTE 1: NATIONAL LOTTERY Pursuant to Section 5(1)(a) of the National Lottery Act, 1986, a sum of £4,988,000 was paid to the Council on the determination of the Government and was expended in accordance with Section 5(2) of the Arts Act, 1951, as part of the Council’s programme of support for the arts.
NOTE 2: OTHER GRANTS [The project or scheme for which each grant was designated is given in parentheses] £ £ Literature: Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Grants) 54,552
Visual Arts: Department of Justice (Artists-in-Prisons) 5,000 Dublin Corporation (Award) 1,500 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Awards) 10,065 Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Awards) 450 Spanish Embassy (Awards) 600 ______17,615
Drama: Dublin Corporation (Award) 1,500
Dance: Dublin Corporation (Award) 1,500
Music: Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Grants) 32,344 Dublin Corporation (Award) 1,500 ______33,844
Education: Department of Education (Grants) 30,000
Community Arts: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Grant) 2,505
Regions: Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Grant) 42,333
Capital: Tyrone Guthrie Trust (Grant) 19,790
Sundry: Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ARTFLIGHT) 15,320 Department of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht (L’Imaginaire Irlandais) 59,596 European Union (FORCE project) 34,723 Temple Bar Properties (Grant) 5,000 Sundry (ARTFLIGHT) 2,633 ______117,272 ______320,911 ______
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NOTE 3: EXPENDITURE ON THE ARTS
Directly Promoted 1994 1993 Grants Activities Total Total £ £ £ £ Literature 834,937 8,658 843,595 742,644 Visual Arts* 1,410,562 35,904 1,446,466 1,208,140 Film 475,747 6,368 482,115 397,345 Drama 4,641,118 9,107 4,650,225 3,926,045 Dance 374,290 3,415 377,705 233,231 Opera 717,178 600 717,778 628,241 Music 923,894 5,045 928,939 788,459 Arts Centres 901,357 1,383 902,740 861,704 Arts in Education 390,423 40,756 431,179 301,232 Community Arts and Festivals 547,103 956 548,059 350,907 Arts development in the regions 382,533 21,972 404,505 345,159 Capital 470,248 – 470,248 903,319 Sundry 114,869 307,375 422,244 149,244 ______Totals 12,184,259 441,539 12,625,798 10,835,670 ______
*Visual Arts expenditure includes grants towards the cost of works of art acquired by approved bodies under the Council’s Joint Purchase Scheme. The works may not be sold without the prior agreement of the Council and, in the event of such agreement, they may not be resold for less than their original price and half the sum realised shall be refunded to the Council.
NOTE 4: ADMINISTRATION 1994 1993 £ £ Salaries, PRSI and Superannuation 511,459 467,178 Council and Staff Expenses 155,629 122,796 Consultants’ Fees and Expenses 23,529 17,056 Rent, Light, Heat, Insurances, Cleaning, Repairs and other House Expenses 85,826 87,883 Printing, Stationery, Postage, Telephone and Sundry Expenses 106,951 84,193 Depreciation 49,481 35,826 ______932,875 814,932 ______94 ANNUAL REPORT 1994
NOTE 5: FIXED ASSETS Furniture and Works of Art Equipment Total Cost £ £ £ Balance at 31 December 1993 230,753 246,046 476,799 Additions at cost 14,826 81,548 96,374 ______Balance at 31 December 1994 245,579 327,594 573,173 ______Depreciation Balance at 31 December 1993 – 167,115 167,115 Charge for the year – 49,481 49,481 ______Balance at 31 December 1994 – 216,596 216,596 ______
Net Book Value At 31 December 1994 245,579 110,998 356,577 ______
At 31 December 1993 230,753 78,931 309,684 ______
NOTE 6: CAPITAL ACCOUNT 1994 1993 £ £ Balance at 1 January 309,684 294,816
Purchase of Fixed Assets 96,374 50,694 Depreciation 49,481 35,826 ______Transfer from Income and Expenditure Account 46,893 14,868 ______Balance at 31 December 356,577 309,684 ______
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NOTE 7: TRUST FUNDS Assets at 31 December 1994 £ £ President Douglas Hyde Award £2,161 7·50% Capital Stock, 1999 2,000 (Market Value of Securities £2,055) Cash at Bank 1,082 ______3,082
W.J.B. Macaulay Foundation £1,000 9% Capital Loan, 1996 1,020 £13,414 6·5% Exchequer Stock 2000-05 13,498 £6,700 Bank of Ireland Ordinary Stock Units 20,023 (Market Value of Securities £32,650) ______34,541 Creditor (3,500) Debtor 121 Cash at Bank 10,565 ______41,727
Denis Devlin Foundation £1,000 9% Capital Loan, 1996 1,020 £2,000 Bank of Ireland Ordinary Stock Units 6,016 (Market Value of Securities £7,014) Debtor 36 Cash at Bank 1,469 ______8,541
Ciste Cholmcille £7,336 7·50% Capital Stock 1999 6,736 £7,920 Bank of Ireland Ordinary Stock Units 16,339 11,921 Allied Irish Banks plc 25p shares 15,855 (Market Value of Securities £62,924) ______
38,930 Debtor 507 Cash at Bank 3,628 ______43,065 ______c/fwd 96,415
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NOTE 7: TRUST FUNDS (Continued) b/fwd 96,415 Marten Toonder Foundation £6,600 12% Conversion Stock, 1995 6,711 £10,582 6·5% Exchequer Stock, 2000-05 10,658 £9,839 Bank of Ireland Ordinary Stock Units 8,399 19,804 Allied Irish Banks plc 25p shares 11,998 (Market Value of Securities £98,899) ______37,766 Debtor 783 Cash at Bank 5,499 ______44,048
Concannon Arts Award Cash at Bank 471 Creditor (471) ______–
Doris Keogh Trust £2,334 Bank of Ireland Ordinary Stock Units 7,000 (Market Value of Securities £7,002) Debtor 42 Cash at Bank 453 ______7,394
Michael Byrne Trust 3,590 Allied Irish Banks 25p shares 8,808 (Market Value of Securities £9,693) Debtor 49 Cash at Bank 214 ______9,071 ______156,928 ______
Securities are shown at cost and are held in trust by An Chomhairle Ealaíon
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NOTE 7: (Continued) Movement of Trust Funds 31 Income Expenditure 31 December December 1993 1994 £ £ £ £ President Douglas Hyde Award 2,912 170 – 3,082 W.J.B. Macaulay Foundation 43,614 1,613 (3,500) 41,727 New York Irish Institute Fund 1,736 140 (1,876) – Denis Devlin Foundation 8,269 272 – 8,541 Ciste Cholmcille 48,531 5,034 (10,500) 43,065 Marten Toonder Foundation 42,552 4,996 (3,500) 44,048 Concannon Arts Award 467 4 (471) – Doris Keogh Trust 7,146 248 – 7,394 Michael Byrne Trust – 9,071 – 9,071 ______155,227 21,548 (19,847) 156,928 ______
Note: With the agreement of the Irish Institute Incorporated, New York, the assets of the Irish Institute Fund have been transferred to Ciste Cholmcille.
NOTE 8: INTEREST-FREE LOANS During 1994 eleven additional interest-free loans were given: £ Balance at 31 December 1993 272,049
Additional Loans 233,799 Repayments (115,748) ______Balance at 31 December 1994 390,100 ______
NOTE 9: PREMISES The Council occupies premises at 69 and 70 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 under leases which expire in 2015 and 2014 respectively. The annual rent is £68,000 subject to review every five years. The next reviews fall due in 1995 and 1999.
NOTE 10: FUTURE COMMITMENTS At 31 December 1994 the Council had entered into commitments in connection with activities due to take place after that date. The amount involved, £7·939m. is not reflected in these financial statements.
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NOTE 11: SUPERANNUATION SCHEMES (a) A Staff Superannuation Scheme under the Arts Act, 1973, Section 10, is in operation. Benefits are defined and the Scheme provides for equal contributions to be made by Council and staff. The assets of the Scheme comprise a combination of an insured fund and a managed fund. Irish Pensions Trust Ltd act as independent corporate trustees and the manager is Irish Life Assurance plc. Actuarial reviews are carried out every three years. The last review, carried out as at 1 January 1995, showed that, while the assets were more than sufficient to cover accrued liabilities based on current salary levels, they were not sufficient to cover accrued liabilities in respect of past service taking into account future salary increases. In view of this, the Actuary strongly recommended a funding increase. A provision at current premium rates is maintained in respect of the expected liabilities but funds have not been provided to meet these liabilities. At 31 December 1994 the provision was £127,590 (1993: £98,122). The next actuarial review will be undertaken at 1 January 1998. Total staff superan- nuation costs charged to the Income and Expenditure Account for the current year are £55,263 (1993: £55,068). (b) A Superannuation Scheme is in operation for members of Aosdána on the basis of insured annuity contracts and defined contributions. The cost of the annual premiums is shared equally by the Council and the members. The charge to the Income and Expenditure Account for the current year is £20,226 (1993: £23,138).
NOTE 12: SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES At 31 December 1994 the following companies limited by guarantee were subsidiaries of the Council as it controlled the appointments to their boards: Irish Film Centre Ltd – established to develop the Irish Film Centre in Temple Bar, Dublin. Ownership of the building has been transferred to Irish Film Centre Development Ltd, a subsidiary of Temple Bar Properties Ltd and at 31 December 1994 the company had no assets or liabilities. The members have agreed in principle to wind-up the company. The Council provided grant-aid to the company from 1989 to 1993 inclusive. Fire Station Artists Studios Ltd – established to provide workspace for artists in the former fire station at Buckingham Street, Dublin 1. Taking account of grants from the Council totalling £343,000 during the two years ended 31 December 1994, at that date the company had Net Current Liabilities of £47,600 (1992: £34,600) and Net Assets of £779,300 (1992: £690,600) Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig – established to manage and develop Annaghmakerrig House, Co. Monaghan, as a workplace for artists and controlled jointly with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Taking account of grants from the Council, £87,967, and from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, £45,233, at 31 December 1994 the company had Net Current Liabilities of £120,000 (1993: £150,800) and Net Assets of £751,600 (1993: £703,200).
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