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Download Annual Report 1988 An Chomhairle Ealaíon An Seachtú Tuarascáil Bhliantúil is Tríocha maille le Cuntais don bhlian dár chríoch 31ú Nollag 1988. Tiolacadh don Rialtas agus leagadh faoi bhráid gach Tí den Oireachtas de bhun Altanna 6 (3) agus 7 (1) den Acht Ealaíon 1951. Thirty-seventh Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31st December 1988. 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 29 X ISSN 0790-1593 The Arts Council regrets that this Report for 1988, which was ready for printing in 1989, could not be released until the Comptroller and Auditor General had reported on the Council's 1988 Accounts. Draft Accounts were submitted for audit in April 1989. The Comptroller and Auditor General's Report is dated 21st December 1989. Members Members (Until December 1988) (From December 1988) Máirtín McCullough, Chairman Colm Ó hEocha, Chairman John Banville Dermot Bolger Vivienne Bogan Michael Colgan David Byers Máire de Paor Patrick Dawson Bríd Dukes Máire de Paor Arthur Gibney Bríd Dukes Patrick Hall Vincent Ferguson Charles Hennessy Mairéad Furlong Ted Hickey Garry Hynes Richard Keamey Barry McGovern Proinsias Mac Aonghusa Rosemarie Mulcahy Larry McCluskey Tom Munnelly Paul McGuinness Patrick J. Murphy Míchéal O'Siadhail Seán Ó Mordha Donald Potter Michael Smith Eric Sweeney Michael Taylor Kathleen Watkins Staff Director Adrian Munnelly Officers Literature, Arts Festivals and Community Arts Laurence Cassidy Visual Arts Medb Ruane Visual Arts/Exhibitions and Film John Hunt (until November 1988) Film and Information Paul Freaney (from September 1989) Drama and Personnel Phelim Donlon Music, Opera and Arts Centres Patricia Quinn Popular Music Keith Donald Traditional Music and Administration Dermot McLaughlin Regions, Research, Information Marian Fitzgibbon Education and Dance Martin Drury Finance David McConnell Executive Assistants Kevin Healy Nuala O'Byrne Bernie O'Leary Secretarial Assistants Patricia Moore Jennifer Traynor Mary Cloake Mary Hickey Paula Harold Receptionist Kathryn Cahille 70 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 Telephone: (01) 611840 Fax: (01) 761302 An Chomhairle Ealaíon An Chomhairle Ealaíon/The Arts Council is an independent body set up under the Arts Acts 1951 and 1973 to promote and assist the arts. It operates through a wide-ranging programme of financial assistance and special services, offered to individuals and organisations. The Council also acts as an adviser on artistic matters to Government, and is one of four bodies having a statutory right to make representations to planning authorities in connection with applications for planning permission in areas of special amenity throughout the country, and in cases where proposed developments might detract from the artistic or architectural appearance of buildings of interest. The Council consists of a board of not more than seventeen members appointed by An Taoiseach. The term of office of the Council which was appointed in January 1974, expired in December 1988. The present Council's term of office expires in 1993. The Council meets ten times a year to set Council policies and make decisions within the terms of the Arts Acts. These policies and decision are implemented by a staff headed by a Director, appointed by the Council. The Council reports to the Oireachtas through An Taoiseach and its accounts are audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General. Annual grants from the Oireachtas and from the nett proceeds of the National Lottery are the Council's principal source of income. These grants are supplemented by income from local authorities and private organisations. The Council also administers a number of trust funds, set up privately for specific purposes. The Arts are defined in the Arts Acts and include: painting, sculpture, architecture, cinema, print-making, design, theatre, dance, music, opera, literature, and the fine arts and applied arts generally. Contents Page Chairman's Introduction 7 Finance 8 National Lottery 9 Membership of Council 10 Arts Council Publications 10 Works of Art Purchased 11 Aosdána 13 Literature 15 Visual Arts 18 Film 22 Drama 23 Dance 26 Popular Music 27 Traditional Arts 28 Opera 30 Music 31 Arts Centres and Festivals 33 Education 35 Community Arts 37 ACE (Arts Community Education) 39 Arts Development in the Regions 41 Capital 42 Sundry 42 Accounts 43 Chairman's Introduction This slim volume, the Arts Council's Annual Report for 1988, accounts for expenditure on the contemporary arts of a little under £7m. The report is necessarily slim due to the fact that a detailed recording of the enormous creative activity which occurred during the year under review would take many volumes. For a nation of its size Ireland continues to generate a remarkable amount of significant and distinctive work in the arts. That we can hold our own in the company of our much larger European neighbours is its own testimony to the talent and commitment of all the artists in the various creative disciplines. Our sense of identity — both personal and collective — and our image abroad are greatly enhanced by the achievements of our artists. The Arts Council has played a crucial and honourable role in providing the conditions within which all this arts activity can occur. Greater participation in, and access to, the arts is an important hallmark of the Council's policy which, financial difficulties notwithstanding, was pursued actively during 1988. The arts in Ireland are in a healthy state, even if there are some areas of activity that are suffering a temporary undernourishment. It is a tribute to my predecessor Máirtín McCullough and to his fellow-members of the previous Arts Council that the retrenchment in the public sector, which affected other areas of public life widely, impacted with less severity upon the arts. Is mór an onóir liom é an Tuarascáil seo a chur i láthair. Tréaslaím leis an gComhairle a chuaigh romhainn as ucht a ngaisce ar son na n-ealaíon. Tá an healaíona faoi bhláth in Éirinn, a bhuíochas le feabhas na healaíontóirí, le tacaíocht an Rialtais agus lucht gnó, maille le gníomhaíocht agus fuinneamh an phobail idir chríon agus óg; tá a líon ag méadú in aghaidh na bliana. Nár lagaí Dia a lámha uilig. Colm Ó hEocha, Chairman. Finance The Council's state funding in 1988, as in 1987, came from two sources: a grant-in-aid voted by Dáil Éireann, £4.924 million, and £1.880 million from the net proceeds of the National Lottery: a total of £6.804 million compared with £6.799 million in 1987. This standstill level of state funding in 1988, in a year when the consumer price index increased by 2.7%, made decision-making particularly difficult. Other Council income for 1988 amounted to £292,000, mainly arising from grants designated for specific purposes received from other organisations. More information about these grants will be found at the end of the section reports. Direct support programmes for the individual artists during 1988 amounted to £726,000, over 10% of total expenditure, including a provision of £437,000 for Aosdána. Many more individuals received indirect support and employment through the Council's grants to organisations. Summary of 1988 Expenditure (to nearest '000) £ Literature 462,000 6.5% Visual Arts 823,000 11.7% Film 124,000 1.7% Drama 2,851,000 40.4% Dance 417,000 5.9% Traditional Arts 163,000 2.3% Opera 329,000 4.7% Music 324,000 4.6% Arts Centres and Festivals 359,000 5.1% Arts in Education 72,000 1.0% Community Arts 96,000 1.4% Arts/Community/Education 85,000 1.2% Regions 138,000 2.0% Capital 110,000 1.6% Sundry 119,000 1.7% Administration 581,000 8.2% Total per Income and Expenditure Account (page 44) £7,053,000 100.0% Details of expenditure are given at the end of the section reports. National Lottery During 1987 and 1988, the Government announced allocations for arts, culture and heritage projects totalling £10.977 million, to be met by the Department of the Taoiseach from the net proceeds of the National Lottery. By 31st December 1988, £3.680 million of this sum had been paid to the Arts Council and much of the balance to existing client-organisations of the Council. These latter payments are not reflected in the Council's accounts and are listed below for information purposes. Full lists of payments from the net proceeds of the National Lottery are given in the Oireachtas Appropriation Accounts for 1987 and 1988. Most of the allocations to arts and culture projects will be found under Votes 3 (Taoiseach), 10 (Office of Public Works), 28 (Education), 32 (Gaeltacht) and 40 (Foreign Affairs). 1987 1988 payments payments £ £ An Chomhairle Ealaíon (see page 44) 1,800,000 1,880,000 Abbey Theatre 400,000 The City Centre, Dublin 64,500 Dublin Theatre Festival 90,000 Dublin Film Festival 15,000 Gate Theatre, Dublin 30,000 Irish Writers' Centre, Dublin 25,000 RHA/Gallagher Gallery, Dublin 200,000 50,000 Sculptors' Society of Ireland 30.000 Cork Film Festival 15.000 Cork Opera House 100,000 Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork 15,000 Firkin Crane Project, Cork 130,000 Graffiti Theatre Company, Cork 15,000 Irish National Ballet 120,000 Triskel Arts Centre, Cork 40,000 Proposed Letterkenny Arts Centre 27,393 Hawk's Well Theatre, Sligo 10,000 Proposed Galway Municipal Theatre 95,000 Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick 9,574 Limerick City Gallery of Art 10,000 Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford 20,000 Waterford Theatre Royal 10,000 Wexford Theatre Royal 30,000 Louis le Brocquy Exhibition in Australia 1,738 36,251 Other Arts, Culture and Heritage projects 486,114 2,057,449 Total payments £3,147,852 £4,665,167 (Source: Appropriation Accounts, 1987 and 1988, Vote 3).
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