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

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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).

Membership of Council We record with sorrow the death on 8th November 1988 of Dr T. J. 'Tom' Walsh, who was a member of the Council from 1973 until 1983. He graduated as a physician and spent most of his life in Wexford where he worked as an anaesthetist. In 1951 he was a co- founder of the Wexford Festival which rapidly became world-famous, largely due to Tom's particular flair and determination. He was its director until 1966. He was author of three books on opera, in particular "Opera in Dublin 1704-1797" (Alien Figgis, 1973).

The term of office of the Council appointed in 1983, expired in December 1988 when the Taoiseach appointed a new Council whose members are listed on page 4.

Employment Policy The Arts Council is committed to a policy of equality of opportunity in its employment practices.

In particular the Council aims to ensure that no potential or actual employee receives more or less favourable treatment on the grounds of race, colour, ethnic or national origins, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, disability or religious beliefs.

Arts Council Publications, September 1988 to December 1989 "Annual Report 1987" 48 pp ISBN 0 906627 23 0 ISSN 0790-1593 "About the Arts Council" (1989) Brochure giving details on the Arts Council and its members ISBN 0 906627 24 9 "Heads" Catalogue of an Arts Council touring exhibition for schools ISBN 0 906627 17 6 "A Special Place" Catalogue of an Arts Council touring exhibition for schools ISBN 0 906627 25 7 'The First Fifty" (1989) Brochure giving details of the first 49 artist-in-residence programmes ISBN 0 96627 28 1 "The Arts Council and Education 1979-1989" Report to mark ten years of the Arts Council's policy in Education ISBN 0 906627 27 3 "What's on in Mayo" (1989) Brochure on Local Authorities and the Arts ISBN 0 906627 26 5 "Birds" Catalogue of an Arts Council touring exhibition "Bootboys and Birdman" Catalogue of an Arts Council touring exhibition "Art and the Ordinary — the ACE Report" edited by Ciaran Benson (1989) Report on a four year education and community arts project funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Arts Council ISBN 0 9515451 0 8 (1989) "Writers-in-Schools Directory" Updated edition, 1989

Purchases of Works of Art in 1988

Artist Title Medium Vendor Cost £ Dietrich Blodau Player's Lane No. 1 Etching Riverrun Gallery 90 Dietrich Blodau Player's Lane No. 2 Etching Riverrun Gallery 90 Brian Bourke Head Painted Bronze Stone Art Gallery 1,350 Michael Cullen Self Portrait with Oil on Paper Riverrun Gallery 500 Monaghan Sunset II Desmond Dillon Untitled 500 Willie Doherty Dreaming Derry Colour Photo Oliver Dowling 850 Gallery T. P. Flanagan Treeline Oil on Canvas An Foras Talúntais 200 50% credited to Joint 200 Purchase A/c Michael Kane Homage to P.K.: Gouache on Paper Project Arts Centre 750 Head VIII John Kelly A Letter for Mixed Media Riverrun Gallery 600 Rembrandt Brian Kennedy Untitled Etching Artist 120 Brian Maguire Children and self- Mixed Media on Hendriks Gallery 2,000 remembering Canvas Eoin Mellett Raku Pot Ceramic Artist 70 Muiris Moynihan "Irish Artists" Portfolio of 24 Project Arts Centre 1,600 black-white photographs Lorrayne Murphy Untitled Collage and paint Artist 300 on paper Eilís O'Connell Funnelling the Dish Bronze Riverrun Gallery 850 Jane O'Malley Still Life: Whites with Oil on Board Taylor Galleries 600 blacks Maria Van Kampen I see it's a cactus Acrylic on Paper Belltable Arts Centre 180 10,850

Summary

Quantity Cost List as above 40 10,850 Schools touring exhibitions: "The School Show" (1986 exhibition) 22 8,000 "Heroes" (1987 exhibition) 16 6,400 "Heads" (1988 exhibition) 7 4,650 "Artworks" (1988 exhibition) 5 350 Regional touring exhibition: "Bootboys to Birdmen" 10 1,266 Total as Note 6 (p. 49) 100 £31,516

Aosdána

During 1988 the Toscairí were Anthony Cronin, Mary Farl Powers, Aloys Fleischmann, Charles Harper, Theo McNab, Míchéal O'Siadhail, Noel Sheridan, and Imogen Stuart. The two-year period of office expired on 31st December 1988. The eighth General Assembly which met on 25th May 1988 in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham decided that there should be a special general assembly in the autumn to deal principally with the matter of balloting on membership. At the May Assembly Bernard McLaverty (literature) was elected to the membership. At the ninth General Assembly on the 26th October three members were elected — Terence de Vere White (literature). Gene Lambert (visul arts) and Louis Marcus (film). During the year the Toscairí considered the nomination process for membership and the desirability of each candidate being put forward with the fullest information on his or her art. In this connection the Toscairí felt it was most important that the nominators of artists for membership should exercise a personal artistic judgement on the quality of the artist's work based on first hand knowledge of it and, further, that they should put such judgement in writing to the Registrar. On a number of occasions the question of the arts in education was considered. Aosdána believes that in order to effect change in the education system it is necessary to have a change of mind and heart in the Department of Education. Arrangements were put in train for a meeting with the Minister for Education and her senior officials. The Toscaireacht prepared papers on music and visual art in education which were given detailed consideration. The matter of the arts in education is under continuing review. There is general agreement that Aosdána's particular emphasis on arts education should be on arts in schools rather than arts in the curriculum. A special education committee was established with the following membership: Anthony Cronin, Theo McNab, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Jane O'Leary and Alexandra Wejchert. The question of cultural policy was discussed at the general assemblies and Aosdána believes that it has a specially important role to play in relation to making a critical appraisal of the success or otherwise of the policies pursued in the contemporary arts by the Arts Council and, indeed, other Government agencies. Aosdána made representations to the Independent Radio and Television Commission requesting that a specified percentage of air-time be devoted to the arts. The question of public sculpture was discussed by the Toscairi and a special committee meeting was called of Aosdána members in visual arts. This committee reported to the Toscaireacht and the Registrar was asked to make their views known to the Arts Council. One of the concerns of this committee was that the selection process in public sculptures should consist of adjudicators who were peers of those who had applied. In particular, the Toscairi believe that members of Aosdána should always be included on adjudication panels. The deliberations of this committee have not yet concluded and the Registrar, at the request of the committee, invited submissions on public art competitions from the Association of Artists in Ireland, Sculptors' Society of Ireland and the Royal Hibernian Academy. These submissions will inform further deliberations by the committee and a final report will be drawn up by the Toscairí. Aosdána continued to press the Department of Education on the matter of the appointment of a National Commission of UNESCO. Aosdána regards it as scandalous that for many years Ireland has had no National Commission. At the year end there were one hundred and twenty- eight members in Aosdána, fifty-nine in visual arts, sixteen in music and fifty- three in literature. Seventy-eight were in receipt of a Cnuas; an annual subsidy awarded by the Arts Council to allow those members who receive it to pursue their art full-time. At 31st December 1988 the value of this award stood at £5,552.

Cnuais to Writers (33) 178,301 Cnuais to Visual Artists (59) 208,200 Cnuais to Composers (6) 33,312

Pension Scheme 18,332 Administration 7,046 £445,191

Members of Aosdána at 31st December 1988

Visual Arts Literature Music Arthur Armstrong John Banville Gerald Barry Robert Ballagh Leiand Bardwell Walter Beckett John Behan Samuel Beckett Seoirse Bodley Pauline Bewick Anthony Cronin Brian Boydell Basil Blackshaw Margaretta D'Arcy John Buckley Brian Bourke Terence de Vere White (from October 1988) Frank Corcoran Fergus Bourke Eilís Dillon Raymond Deane Charles Brady Paul Durcans Jerome de Bromhead Michael Bulfin Padraic Fiacc Roger Doyle John Burke Brian Friel Aloys Fleischmann Michael Byrne Patrick Gavin John Kinsella Patrick Carey Ernest Gébler Philip Martin James Coleman Robert Greacen Jane O'Leary Patrick Collins Gerard Hanley Eric Sweeney Barrie Cooke Michael Hartnett Gerard Victory Michael Cullen Dermot Healy James Wilson Edward Delaney Seamus Heaney Phelim Egan Aidan Higgins Conor Fallon Pearse Hutchinson Mary Farl Powers Jennifer Johnston Micheál Farrell John Jordan (died June 1988) Martin Gale Neil Jordan Tim Goulding John B. Keane Patrick Graham Molly Keane Patrick Hall Benedict Kiely Charles Harper Tom Kilroy Kieran Hickey Mary Lavin Patrick Hickey James Liddy Michael Kane Brian Lynch Brian King Liam Lynch Gene Lambert (from October 1988) Tom Maclntyre Sonja Landweer Bernard MacLaverty (from May 1988) Louis le Brocjuy Melanie le Brocquy Bryan MacMahon Anne Madden Derek Mahon Brian Maguire Hugh Maxton Louis Marcus (from October 1988 John McGahern James McKenna M.J. Molloy Theo McNab John Montague Sean McSweeney Paul Muldoon Helen Moloney Val Mulkerns Michael Mulcahy Richard Murphy Eilís O'Connell Thomas Murphy Tony 0'Malley Nuala Ní Dhomnaill Patrick O'Sullivan Seán Ó Coistealbha Patrick Pye Conleth O'Connor Bob Quinn Ulick O'Connor Yann Renard Goulet Máirtin Ó Direáin (died March 1988) Patrick Scott Seán Ó Faoláin David Shaw-Smith Desmond O'Grady Noel Sheridan Micheal O'Siadhail Maria Simonds-Gooding James Plunkett Camille Souter Francis Stuart Imogen Stuart Mervyn Wall Rod Tuach Anthony C. West (died November 1988) Charles Tyrrell Macdara Woods Dairine Vanston (died July 1988) Michael Warren Alexandra Wejchert Anne Yeats

In June 1988, the first Dublin International Writers' Conference took place in the Royal Marine Hotel, Dún Laoghaire. The idea for the Conference came from the novelist and Arts Council member, John Banville. The theme of the Conference was "Literature as Celebration". Seán Ó Tuama, the poet, dramatist and critic in Irish, inaugurated the three day Conference with a paper exploring the affinities between the poetry of the Old and Middle Irish periods and the new more liberated poetry written in Irish since 1970. The following delivered papers: Chinua Achebe (novelist, Nigeria); Yehuda Amichai (poet, Israel); Adam Czerniawski (poet, Poland — living in Britain); Seamus Heaney (poet and critic, Ireland); Aidan Higgins (novelist, Ireland); Thomas Kilroy (playwright, Ireland); Vitaly Korotich (poet and editor of "Ogonyok", U.S.S.R.); Hermione Lee (critic, England); Liz Lochhead (poet and dramatist, Scotland); David Lodge (novelist and critic, England); Edna Longley (critic, Ireland); Les Murray (poet, Australia); Craig Raine (poet, England); Tadeusz Rozewicz (poet and dramatist, Poland); Susan Sontag (critic, fiction writer, U.S.A.); Francis Stuart (novelist, Ireland); Luisa Valenzuela (novelist, Argentina); and Derek Walcott (poet, St. Lucia, West Indies). The third day of the Conference, 16th June, Bloomsday, was marked by Derek Mahon's reading of his poem "The Joycentenary Ode". There was a gala reading held at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham which was compered by Seamus Heaney. Those who read were: Chinua Achebe, Al Alvarez (poet and critic, England), Yehuda Amichai, Joseph Brodsky (poet, U.S.S.R. — lives in U.S.A.), Adam Czerniawski, Gunnar Harding (poet, Sweden), Seamus Heaney, William Kennedy (novelist, U.S.A.), Liz Lochhead, David Lodge, Les Murray, Seán Ó Tuama, Craig Raine, Tadeusz Rozewicz, Susan Sontag, Luisa Valenzuela and Derek Walcott. The Conference was staffed by Aileen Connor as Executive Secretary and the Council's Literature Officer, Lar Cassidy. The Literature Officer is a member of the Co-ordinating Group for Poetry of the Council of Europe (Strasbourg). Work is proceeding in the Group towards the setting up of a European Poetry Foundation which will extend support for poetry throughout Western Europe. During the year "Developing Publishing in Ireland: Cothú na Foilsitheoireachta in Éirinn" a report by Charles Pick and Peter West was published. At the instigation of the Council, this report, generally known as the "Pick Report", was commissioned jointly by the Arts Council, Bord na Gaeilge, Córas Tráchtála and the Industrial Development Authority. The Pick Report examined the operation of five Irish publishing houses, Attic Press, Brandon Book Publishers, Coiscéim (an Irish-language house), 0'Brien Press and Wolfhound Press. The Report found that a certain group of Irish publishers are clearly capable of sustained growth. To facilitate this, the four agencies referred to above have set up the Publishing Funding Programme to enable improved co-operation. In the context of Irish-language publishing, the Arts Council offered Coiscéim an administration grant which has helped to professionalise the firm. The Arts Council took this step in consultation and co-operation with Bord na Leabhar Gaeilge, Bord na Gaeilge and Roinn na Gaeltachta. The Arts Council is pleased to have a co-funding relationship with Bord na Leabhar Gaeilge, Coiscéim's main hinder. One of the books published by Coiscéim in 1988 was "Ceardlann 1985", an anthology of Irish language writers who took part in the National Writers' Workshop in 1985 under the direction of Seán Mac Mathúna, who also edited the publication. During 1988, Bursaries in Creative Literature were awarded to Michael Coady (poet), Evelyn Conlon (fiction writer), Gabriel Rosenstock (Irish- language poet), Maurice Scully (poet), and Peter Sheridan (playwright). In a number of literary organisations there were resignations and new appointments. Rory Brennan, the poet, resigned as Director of Poetry Ireland and he was replaced by the Cork poet, Theo Dorgan. The distinguished West Indian poet, James Berry, was among the visitors presented by Poetry Ireland. Towards the end of 1987, the founding editor of Books Ireland magazine, Bernard Share, resigned. He was succeeded in this position by the publisher of the magazine, Jeremy Addis. Clara Clarke resigned from her post of Administrator of C.L.É., the Irish Book Publishers Association (which includes the position of Administrator of Book House Ireland). She was succeeded by Cecily Golden. C.L.É. was engaged in the defence of the Net Book Agreement (N.B.A.); the European Common Market (E.C.) is opposed to it on the grounds that it is a restrictive practice. Most book trade organisations believe that abolition of the N.B.A. by the B.C. would be a retrogressive step which could lead to the closure of many smaller bookshops. The Council was delighted to fund the special Irish issue of "Die Horen" which is one of the most distinguished West German literary periodicals. The Arts Council continued to fund the Writers' Workshops for Prisoners in association with the Department of Justice. The year marked the death of one of the nation's great poets, the Aran Islander, Máirtín Ó Díreáin (1910-1988). Writing in Irish, his poetry formed a bridge between the poets of the eighteenth century and those of a more modernist cast from our own century. Among Ó Díreáin's most important works were " Ó Morna agus Dánta Eile" (1957) and "Dánta 1939-79" (1980). The Arts Council contributed financial assistance to the classic bilingual volume "Tacar Dánta/Selected Poems" (Goldsmith 1984). Máirtín Ó Díreáin was a member of Aosdána.

Aosdána £ Cnuais to 33 writers 178,301 Awards Harry Clifton 4,000 Michael Coady 500 Evelyn Conlon 2,000 Hugo Hamilton 2,000 Davoren Hanna 150 Michael Hartnett 400 Anne Haverty 2,000 Fred Johnston 2,000 Adrian Kenny 250 Paul Mercier 2,500 Clair O'Connor 750 Deny O'Sullivan 1,000 Gabriel Rosenstock 2,000 Maurice Scully 2,000 Peter Sheridan 4,000 Peter Sirr 2,500 Gallery Press (ACNI grant) 2,330 Lilliput Press 4,250 O'Brien Press 9,300 Odell and Adair 500 Poolbeg Press (ACNI grant) 1,165 Raven Arts Press 22,450 Wolfhound Press 9,800 Women's Community Press 500 Magazines- "Books Ireland" 6,500 "Books Ireland" (ACNI grant) 4,091 "Cyphers" 1,500 "Cyphers" (ACNI grant) 1,403 "Die Horen" 1,000 "Graph" 2,000 "The Irish Review" 2,000 "The Irish Review" (ACNI grant) 2,571 "Krino" 4,000 "Krino" (ACNI grant) 1,987 "Riverine" 750 "The Salmon" 2,600 TotaVAosdána, Awards and Grants 422,252 Arts Council Promotions First Dublin International Writers' Conference 29,692 Report: "Developing Publishing in Ireland", Charles Pick 6,056 Writers-in-Schools (see also under Education) 2,571 Writers Workshops for Prisoners 616 Sundry 1,200 Total/Direct Promotions 40,135 Total as Note 4 (page 48 ) £462,387

Denis Devlin Poetry Award, 1983-85 (Trust Fund) (see Note 8, page 00) £ Derek Mahon, for "Antarctica" (Gallery Press, 1985) £1,500

An Duais don bhFilíocht i nGaeilge, 1983-85 Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, for "Fear Suaithinseach" (An Sagart, 1984) 1,500 207,851 Grants The Writer Galway Arts Centre/Cúirt Filíochta (see also Community Arts) 1,000 International Writers' Conference (see under Arts Council promotions) Kavanagh's Yearly, Co. Monaghan 1,500 National Writers' Workshop, Galway 3,000 Trinity College, Dublin: John McGahern, writer-in-residence 4,000 Yeats' Society/Sligo 1,000

The Writer/Authors Royalty Scheme Brandon Book Publishers 1,125 Children's Press (150) Dedalus Press 300 Irish Audio Arts, Galway 500 O'Brien Press (76) Raven Arts Press 1,400 Wolfhound Press (526)

Literary Organisations Association of Irish Composers/Society of Irish Playwrights: Joint Administrative Centre 10,300 Children's Book Week 300 CLÉ/Irish Book Publishers' Association 6,500 CLÉ/Irish Book Publishers' Association (ACNI/Arts Council of Northern Ireland grant) 3,974 Poetry Ireland 17,200 Poetry Ireland (ACNI grant) 3,507

Publishers Attic Press 14,900 Brandon Book Publishers 11,800 Goldsmith Press 2,500 Coiscéim 700 Dedalus Press 15,650 Dolmen Press (in liquidation 8,000 Gallery Press 25,300

Grants Received £ Arts Council of Northern Ireland/ 8 grants 21,028 Netherlands Business Association (Awards) 2,000 British Embassy (Writers' Conference) 1,740 Bord na Gaeilge (Charles Pick Report) 1,300 Córas Tráchtála (Charles Pick Report) 2,000 Industrial Development Authority (Charles Pick Report) 1,300 Total as Note 2 (page 47) £29,368

Visual Arts

The rapid and exciting development of public art in Ireland was highlighted by the presence of leading international sculptors and critics at the International Sculpture Conference held in Dublin in August 1988 by the Sculptors' Society of Ireland and organised around the theme of public sculpture. Funded by a host of public and private sponsors, the Society also staged major exhibitions in the RHA Gallery and at St. Enda's, Rathfarnham, as well as establishing a contemporary sculpture trail through the city of Dublin. The most permanent evidence of the conference was the commissioning of a range of sculptures for Dublin with special funding from Allied Irish Banks and with the assistance of FAS and Dublin Corporation. In response to the debate about what ought and what ought not be sited in the main street of the capital city, architect Shane O'Toole and sculptor Leo Higgins organised the Pillar Project, which brought together artists and architects on collaborative proposals exhibited in August at the GPO. Over twenty five thousand people voted for their favourite proposal at the exhibition. The major sculpture commission executed this year was at Kinsale, Co. Cork, in celebration of the town's victory in Bord Fáilte's Tidy Towns Competition. Measuring 179 feet in length, Eilís O'Connell's sculpture at the Town Park in Kinsale was "unveiled" in July by Mr. Joe Walsh, T.D., Minister for Food. The sculpture was designed specifically for the perimeter of a sloping site overlooking Kinsale Harbour. While provoking mixed reaction locally, the work received widespread critical acclaim. Eilís O'Connell also took on a fellowship to PSI Studios in New York awarded by the Arts Councils in Ireland, together with Ireland- America Arts Exchange and later in the year she won a place in the prestigious Delphina Trust studios in London. The Council continued to give advice to the Department of the Environment on the public art scheme to include artistic features in new capital projects, a scheme introduced by the Minister for the Environment following a special report by the Arts Council. Acting on advice, the Department issued detailed guidelines to local authorities which recommended early involvement by the artist and undertook to provide special funds for all such commissions. Mr. Padraig Flynn, T.D., Minister for the Environment, decided to double the amount available to local authorities to a maximum of £20,000 per capital project. The Department also became involved with Aer Rianta and Dublin County Council in an £80,000 sculpture commission for the roundabout at Dublin Airport and at year's end. New residency schemes brought artist Nick Millar to Dublin Zoo for six months where he worked from a studio next door to the snow leopard, combining workshops for children with the development of an extensive series of drawings and paintings on the wildlife in the Zoological Gardens. The Sean McSweeney residency at Sligo Art Gallery allowed many local children to benefit from the experience of this senior painter who now lives in the Sligo area. At University College, Cork, students met resident artist Jill Dennis on a regular basis while she completed a series of large-scale paintings later exhibited at the College. In association with the Department of Justice, the Council initiated a pilot scheme for art in prisons which brought Brian Maguire to Portlaoise Prison, Pauline Cummins to the Women's Prison in Mountjoy and Mick O'Dea to the Young Offender's Unit in St. Patrick's, Drumcondra, Dublin. The pilot project won the support of both administrators and prisoners, leading to negotiations with the National College of Art and Design for foundation art courses in Portlaoise. Much of this success was due to the talent and personal skills of the artists involved. The Council and Department of Justice decided subsequently to introduce an artist-in-prisons scheme on an ongoing basis. Over forty artists were assisted with bursaries, travel and materials grants, supplemented by assistance to the individual artist made available through Aosdána. Indirect assistance to artists was continued by grants to studio space in Dublin, Wexford, Cork and Limerick. Galway's new studio, "Artspace", received funding for the first time and a special grant was provided to Graphic Studio, Dublin, to enable it to operate a print gallery in Temple Bar. Plans for a sculpture studio in Cork were begun by Vivienne Roche and the Council started discussions with Cork Corporation about developing the proposal into a Sculpture Factory which could service the production of major sculpture in Ireland.

Grant-aid was provided to a range of exhibitors throughout the country, in addition to the major revenue grants to galleries and arts centres. The four-yearly Rose celebrated its twenty-first birthday with a rare and excellent exhibition (at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham) of modern art from the U.S.S.R., as collected by George Costakis in the 1920s and 1930s. Rose's contemporary section combined installation work at the RHK with paintings and sculpture at the Hop Store. It is perhaps a measure of Ireland's progress in the visual arts that virtually none of the myriad organisations, schemes, and events now operating were in existence at the time of the first Rose in 1967. The Council continued its direct promotions with a range of exhibitions, notably "Louis Ie Brocquy: Images 1975-87" organised in association with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland as part of the two Councils' series of joint exhibitions which tour throughout the island. The two Councils also collaborated in funding "Exchange" a touring exhibition selected by Klaus Honnef, Sean McCrum and Anya van Gosselyn which features the work of German and Irish artists and will travel in Ireland and Germany. The exhibition was funded also by the Institut fur Auslands Beziehungen and the Department of Foreign Affairs; the Goethe Institute, Dublin, provided invaluable assistance at all stages of mounting and touring this exhibition. The Arts Council also mounted "European Artists of the Eighties" at the Hop Store, Dublin, and toured cartoons by Tom Mathews, Táin lithographs by Louis le Brocquy, photographs by Muiris Moynihan and landscapes by nine Irish artists as part of its regional touring programme.

Aosdána £ Cnuais to 39 painters and sculptors 208,200 Awards/Commissions etc. Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland and Sculptors' Society of Ireland/Pillar Sculpture 5,800 Project James Scanlon/Sculpture Commission for Sneem, Co. Kerry ("Tidy Towns" Award winner) 5,000 Tallaght Chamber of Commerce/Sculpture for Tallaght Town Centre by Dick Joynt 5,000 Royal Zoological Society/Nick Millar 1,000 Sligo Art Gallery/Sean McSweeney 800 University College, Cork/Jill Dennis 500 Veronica Bolay 250 Cecily Brennan 1,000 Maria Clarke 150 Liadin Cooke 550 Pauline Cummins 800 Cliodna Cussen 500 Denis Farrell 1000 Jacintha Feeney 1,000 Sean Fingleton 500 5A Artworks, Dun Laoghaire 500 Patrick Graham 100 Karl Grimes 1,000 Anita Groener 250 Ken Hardy 220 Annette Hennessy 250 Sally Houston 300 Colm Keating & Paddy Logan 400 John Keating 180 Ita Kelly 500 Richard King 240 Anthony Little (George Campbell Memorial Travel Award) 1,000 Deirdre McLoughlin 750 Patricia McKenna 500 Margaret MacNamidhe 260 Alice Maher 750 Nick Millar 300 Bernard Mortell 300 Colm Ó Cualáin 350 Michael O'Kelly (Dublin Corporation Scholarship) 1,500 John O'Riordan 900 Tony O'Shea 500 Patrick O'Sullivan 500 John Renwick 750 Vivienne Roche 500 James Scanlon 500 Michelle Souter 150 Una Walker 200 Louise Walsh 1,249 Lorcan Walshe 50 246,999

Grants £ All + Ten Sports Studio, Limerick 3,500 Artspace Studios, Galway 1,500 Association of Artists in Ireland 11,300 Black Church Print Studio 25,200 Butler Gallery/Kilkenny Art Gallery Society (see also under Education) 30,300 "CIRCA" (paid to ACNI) 4,521 Claremorris Arts Committee 2,000 Cork Artists' Collective 3,000 Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin 111,000 Exhibition of Visual Art, Limerick 8,500 Figurative Image 500 Gallery of Photography, Dublin 22,900 Graphic Studio, Dublin 37,400 Independent Artists 8,500 Ireland-American Arts Exchange/PS1 Studios, New York/Residency by Eilís O'Connell 4,034 Irish Arts Review 500 National Sculpture Factory, Cork 500 New Art Studio, Dublin 5,200 An t-Oireachtas 1,000 *ROSC '88 90,000 Sculptors' Society of Ireland 40,400 Sculpture in Context 1,500 Sligo Art Gallery Society 6,600 Visual Arts Centre Dublin 5,050 The Western Artists 2,000 Wexford Sculpture Workshop 2,000 *The Council's total grant to ROSC '88 is £126,000; £15,000 payable in 1987, £90,000 in 1988 and £31,000 in 1989. Exhibition Assistance Grants All + Ten Sorts Studio 250 Alternative Entertainments, Tallaght 340 Architectural Association of Ireland 2,000 Artspace Studios, Galway 500 Artworks, Bray 600 Association of Artists in Ireland 2,000 Ballyfermot Arts Group 100 "Based in Berlin" exhibition 450 Belltable Arts Centre 700 Butler Gallery/Kilkenny Arts Gallery Society 275 Celtic Vision 450 Cibéal Cincíse, An Néidín (see also Community Arts) 100 Cork Teachers Centre 280 Gerard Cox 140 Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork 1,225 Donegal County Council 500 Dublin City Community Photographic Archive 300 Dundalk Heritage Committee 150 Dundalk Urban District Council 130 Galway Arts Centre (see also Literature and Community Arts) 745 Galway Arts Festival (see also Arts Festivals) 1,000 Garter Lane Arts Centre (see also Arts Centres) 1,775 Glebe Gallery, Churchill, Co. Donegal 400 Irish Visual Arts Foundation 1,600 Colm Keating and Paddy Logan 500 John Keating 160 Bill E. Kinnarney 178 Limerick City Gallery of Art 1,180 Limerick Contemporary Art 487 Limerick County Council 550 Limerick Unemployed Centre 100 Lourdes Youth & Community Service, Dublin 100 Monaghan County Museum 550 New Art Studio, Dublin 300 Kevin O'Farrell 2,000 Offaly Community Arts Group 130 St. Caimin's Community School, Shannon 110

Sculptors' Society of Ireland 3,300 Spanish Arch Print Gallery, Galway 500 Temple Bar Gallery and Studios 3,515 Triskel Arts Centre 2,210 Grace Weir 700 Wexford Arts Centre 550 Wexford Sculpture Workshop 500 Women Artists Action Group 200 Joint Purchase Grants Butler Gallery, Kilkenny 255 Carnegie Intermediate School, Killorglin 220 Contemporary Irish Arts Society 1,000 Donegal County Council 600 Dublin County Council 1,500 Galway County Council 75 Kerry County Council 1,344 Limerick Contemporary Art 513 Limerick County Council 900 Malahide Community School 86 Mary Immaculate Training College 250 National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin 450 National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick 125 Presentation De La Salle School, Co. Limerick 200 Roscommon County Council 750 University College, Cork 675 University College, Dublin 1,300 University College, Galway 720 An Foras Talúntais, painting returned/Council's contribution written-back (200) Less; Previous year's grants not required (1,970) Total/Aosdána, Awards and Grants £718,527 Arts Council Exhibitions £ European Artists of the Eighties 5,256 Louis Ie Brocquy: Images 1975-87 7,336 German-Irish Exchange 54,402 Tom Mathews 4,618 Nine Landscapes 1,659 Muiris Moynihan 2,301 Táin Prints 2,497 Exhibition Equipment 3,966 Sundry 349 82,384 Other Council Activities Artists-in-Prisons 2,716 Architectural Advice 2,262 Council's Collection — Maintenance 15,312 Slide Bank 1,142 Sundry 630

Total/Exhibitions and Other Activities 104,446 Total as Note 4 (page 48) £822,973 Capital Expenditure Purchase of 40 works of art £10,850 Grants Received Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Awards) 323 Spanish Cultural Institute (Awards) 400 Dublin Corporation (Awards) 1,500 Department of Justice (Artists in Prisons) 2,316 National Lottery (Louis Ie Brocquy exhibition 14,700 Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Louis Ie Brocquy exhibition) 4,753 Arts Council of Northern Ireland (German-Irish exhibition) 8,130 Institut für Auslands Beziehungen (German-Irish Exchange exhibition) 21,291 Department of Foreign Affairs (German-Irish Exchange exhibition) 10,000 Total as Note 2 (page 47) 63,413 Macaulay Fellowship, 1988 (Trust Fund, Note 8, page 5 1) Kathy Prendergast, painter £3,500

Film

Despite the cessation of operations by Bord Scannán na hÉireann 1988 saw the emergence of a new generation of film-makers. The Cork and Dublin Festivals could display their works with pride. The year's film graduates from NIHE (now Dublin City University), Dún Laoghaire School of Art and Design and Rathmines College showed a remarkable talent for which the professional industry was as yet, unable to assimilate. Although the Arts Council was able to allocate only £30,000 for the 1988 Film and Video Awards, a definite policy began to appear to the type of project which would be supported. Films of an experimental nature or those which in some way challenged and explored film-form were included within the ambit of Arts Council funding. The Arts Council's belief was that these films, in spite of their lack of commercial viability, are nevertheless important to the progress and development of an indigenous film industry, with an Irish vocabulary of image, based firmly on individual artistic expression. It was clear to the Arts Council that, as it lacks the necessary resources in budget and staff, it would not be appropriate for it to try to replace the Film Board. Instead, the Council would address itself to a particular area and practice of film-making. The Council continued to support Film Base, The Irish Film Institute and the Federation of Film Societies. It was recognised that the Federation had reached a plateau whereby it could sustain the existing societies and most importantly satisfy the public demand. The Irish Film Institute continued to expand its activities especially in the development of a proper and substantial Irish Film Archive. Film Base's successful training courses serviced a great need for younger film-makers while providing necessary hands-on experience of film.

Grants £ Federation of Irish Film Societies 37,000 Film Base 11,000 Irish Film Institute 43,000 Galway Film Society 8,500 Cathal Black 20,000 Fergus Tighe 2,500 Frances Leach 2,000 Charles Molloy 1,000 £125,000

Drama

The National Theatre Society (Abbey and Peacock theatres) mounted twenty-two plays during the year which included revivals, co- productions and lunchtimes. Nine of these productions were new works by Irish writers, two new works by Anerican writers and one new work by an English writer. In addition, the Company toured nine plays throughout Ireland and overseas. The aggregate attendance for the year at evening performances was averaged at 62% seat occupancy in the two theatres. The Gate Theatre celebrated its sixtieth anniversary with a programme of work which, even by the exceptional standards which this company has set in the recent past, was extraordinary. Eight productions were mounted at the Gate in Dublin including two plays which had been included in the original programme of work in the 1928 programme namely "Salome" by Oscar Wilde and "Peer Gynt" — the 1988 version of Ibsen's play by Frank McGuinness. Two Gate productions, "111 Go On" and "Juno and the Paycock" were toured to New York where they played simultaneously at the Lincoln Centre and on Broadway during the New York International Festival of the Arts. Both of these productions received rave notices and reflected most splendidly not only on the work of the Gate Theatre itself but indeed on Irish theatre as a whole. It is regrettable that although all of these productions achieved an average paid attendance of 95%, nevertheless, a significant short-fall was experienced as between expenditure and income, and the Council's ability to support the Gate was not sufficient to bridge this gap. The twenty-ninth Dublin Theatre Festival took place between 26th September and 15th October 1988 and this three week 1988 Dublin Millennium Festival was one of the largest festivals ever. In all, forty-five productions were presented under the Festival banner, of which thirty-two were Irish. The Festival management and staff are to be commended for the splendid effort which was made on this occasion and the Arts Council noted with satisfaction the strong support which the Festival management received from corporate sponsors and individuals alike. Druid Theatre Company experienced a difficult year in 1988, largely arising from the box-office potential of their small Galway-based theatre, combined with the Council's inability to provide a touring grant to the Company this year, threatened the continued viability and the very existence of the Company, and imposed constraints which effectively deprived the Company of any flexibility for experiment or scope to absorb failures. The Company mounted its production of "The Playboy of the Western World" in Sydney, Australia, in the beginning of the year and toured its production of "The Factory Girls" by Frank McGuinness to Glasgow's Mayfest and to the Riverside Studios in London. The rest of the Company's work in 1988 was mounted in the theatre in Galway and attracted capacity houses there. By the end of the year, under the guidance of its new Administrator, Jane Daly, Druid had put in place plans to develop new writing and to identify and encourage new writers in 1989, and the Company was facing a new phase in its existence with renewed energy and vigour. TEAM Theatre Company had hoped to be able to mount two new productions during 1988, but because of financial constraints, TEAM decided to postpone the second new programme until 1989 and to mount a revival of "Two Houses". TEAM hopes that it will be possible to revert to presenting three new programmes each year, and also to develop its schools liaison initiative. Rough Magic Theatre Company once again presented a full programme of work during the year including four Irish premiers. The company's production of "Tea, Sex and Shakespeare" by Thomas Kilroy was toured throughout Ireland and at the Belfast Festival at Queens. The production "Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son" by Donal O'Kelly was presented at the Irish Arts Centre in New York and the company has been invited to appear at the Glasgow Mayfest and at the Edinburgh Festival in 1989. The Arts Council is keenly aware of the difficulties which Rough Maic is experiencing in maintaining a level of activity of this order on the basis of the present level of funding. This dilemma is a very stark example of the problems which the Council has been confronting for a number of years in endeavouring to respond appropriately and effectively to the needs of the many emerging young theatre groups who are anxious to become established as fully professional theatre companies committed to implementing a particular artistic policy. The Arts Council was pleased to note during the year the increased levels of activity and confidence of regionally based companies including in particular Graffiti Theatre Company in Cork, Red Kettle Theatre Company in Waterford, and the Island Theatre Company in Limerick. The Council is also encouraged by the continued success of the Passion Machine, particularly in the area of presenting new Irish work and developing and sustaining a new audience for theatre in Dublin. The absence of any significant additional funds during 1988 meant that plans to hold a playwrights' workshop had to be abandoned; only one playwright's commission grant was provided; no funding could be made available to offer scholarships or grants to individuals, and only three travel grants totalling in all less than £1,000 could be awarded. Although the Council had hoped to make Theatre Projects Awards of up to £50,000 during the year, in the event, the financial constraints on the budgets meant that only one award of £20,000 could be made. The funding available to support the Council's Theatre Touring Scheme had to be reduced from the level which had been achieved in 1987, and only five companies received full production and touring grants which generated twenty- one weeks of touring. By providing venue rental guarantees and guarantees-against-loss professional managements were enabled to generate a further nine weeks of touring. However the Councils inability to provide full touring grants to a number of established companies including the Abbey Theatre, Druid Theatre Company and Cork Theatre Company created many serious problems in terms of planning and programming for these companies, and in the case of the Cork Theatre Company, led regrettably to the virtual close- down of that company's activities.

The failure of the Everyman Palace in Cork and the Kilkenny Theatre Project to secure funding from the National Lottery meant the postponement of both of these very important developments and it is the Council's earnest wish that funds will be provided in 1989 to ensure that these projects are completed without further delay.

Awards £ Siobhán Bourke 375 Ben Barnes 350 Annie Kilmartin 250 975

General Grants Abbey Theatre (National Theatre Society Ltd) 1,565,000 Gate Theatre 333,000 Cork Theatre Company 60,000 Druid Theatre Company 189,200 Dublin Theatre Festival 102,000 Everyman Palace, Cork 26,000 Focus Theatre, Dublin 20,000 Hawk's Well Theatre, Sligo 26,000 Rough Magic Theatre Company 31,800 TEAM Educational Theatre Company 92,000 Irish Theatre Company (in liquidation) 13,000 Graffiti Theatre-in-Education, Cork 18,500 Cork Opera House 19,000 Red Kettle Theatre Company, Waterford 9,000 Wet Paint Theatre Company 15,500 The Passion Machine 25,000 Gemini Productions 3,000 Mimodrame Theatre (Special Theatre Project) 20,000 Wexford Arts Centre 300 Performing Arts Centre/Sean Lawlor 440 2,568,740

Theatre Touring Grants Abbey Theatre 7,000 Graffiti Theatre Company, Cork 350 Smock Alley 48,420 Druid Theatre Company 3,000 Charabanc Theatre Company, Belfast 3,000 The Machine 35,700 Playwrights and Actors Company 3,000 Rough Magic Theatre Company 45,000 Fand Productions 38,300 Theatre of Open Secrets 30,500 Na Fanaithe, Gaillimh 1,000 Dublin Contemporary Dance Theatre 6,000 National Association for Youth Drama 1,000 222,270

Venue Rental Guarantees Belltable Arts Centre (see also Arts Centres) 9,000 Cork Opera House 34,000 Siamsa Tíre, Tralee (see also Traditional Arts) 3,620 Hawk's Well Theatre, Sligo 4,420 51,040

Directly Promoted Activities £ Legal Fees 5,410 Sundry 2,198 7,608

Total as Note 4 (page 48) £2,850,633

Dance

1988 was a critical year for dance in Ireland and was marked by the most difficult, albeit necessary, decision made by the Council Members appointed in 1984 and who had overseen the research and publication of the 1985 Brinson Report The Dancer and the Dance. Since that time the Arts Council had devoted a great deal of attention to the matter of the development of dance in Ireland. In 1988 several decisions by Irish National Ballet (INB) confirmed for the Arts Council that INB and the leadership model it represented was not the most appropriate framework for dance development and that the £420,000 subsidy given to the company could be better spent elsewhere. That decision can be understood only within the wider contexts of dance, and of all the arts in Ireland, which it is the Council's statutory duty to promote and assist. 1988 saw further evidence of the existence of an indigenous and developmental dance culture with a growth model that was organic rather than hierarchical. The development of Barefoot in Wexford, of the choreography summer school run by the Dance Council, of the various dance education initiatives of Thomond College and of the Dance Council, the establishment of Daghdhda dance-in-education company and the proliferation of small dance companies in Dublin which are without subsidy — all of these contributed to a developing awareness that the forcefield of dance in Ireland had shifted considerably since the 1970s and early 80s. Accordingly the Arts Council decided that if it wishes to offer public subsidy to projects and initiatives displaying creative thinking and practice, it would need vastly increased resources from Government or it would need to redeploy its existing dance resources. In the light of experience, it decided on the latter course.

Awards £ Margaret Cadwell 2,000 Jennifer Connolly 3,100 Jane Curtin 100 Michael Dolan 2,000 Orla McFeely (Dublin Corporation Scholarship) 1,500 Rachel Murray 3,200

Grants Dublin Contemporary Dance Theatre 81,200 Dance Council of Ireland (see also under Music) 20,300 Irish National Ballet 285,000 Barefoot Dance Company 8,200 Royal Academy of Dancing (Irish Region) 500 Thomond College of Education 10,000

Total/Awards and Grants 417,100

Sundry Expenditure 14

Total as Note 4 (page 48) £417,114

Grant received Dublin Corporation £1,500

Popular Music

The appointment of a Popular Music Officer arose from a partnership of the Arts Council and the Popular Music Industry Association (P.M.I.A.). The P.M.I.A. is meeting the costs associated with this appointment. A special advisory committee of Arts Council and P.M.I.A. members meets regularly on popular music matters. During 1988, various seminars were organised or assisted, including Tallaght Alternative Entertainment's Seminar, Dundalk Federation of Youth Clubs, Clare County Council, Coolock and the Popular Music Industry Association. The objective in all seminars is to enable experienced practitioners from the popular music business to share information with young people about to come into the business. It is emphasised that seminars are not an end in themselves, but should be regarded as the start of a process of self-education. Care is taken not to raise young people's expectations and to acquaint them with some of the dangers and pitfalls which may be encountered in the business. The Senior College, Ballyfermot started its R.P.M. (Rock, Production, Management) course in 1988. The Popular Music Officer was contacted at an early stage and has been continuously assisting the principal of the College with regard to curriculum and staff. The private copying of copyrighted material was seen as a major cause of loss of revenue for writers and producers as well as for the royalty collection agencies and record companies. Initiatives are being assisted to put in place a Home Recording Royalty. The Popular Music Officer was invited to attend the Forum organised by Seamus Brennan, TD, in the Department of Industry and Commerce, at which he raised the possible application of the Business Expansion Scheme to music. Discussions were initiated with Córas Tráchtála regarding (1) the promotion abroad of Irish recording studios, (2) the provision of seed money to young bands to tour abroad for the first time, and (3) providing partial funding for an Irish music seminar with international dimensions. Some research was carried out for a substantial report which is to be written on popular music and its relationship to other art forms in Ireland. This should be of use to people from a wide variety of backgrounds including young musicians, market researchers and educators. Encouragement and advice was given to various experimental venues, and sponsorship was obtained for a tour of the arts centres by a rock band. As spokesperson, the Popular Music Officer appeared on behalf of the Popular Music Industry Association and the Arts Council on RTE Radio 1 and 2, BBC Northern Ireland Radio, BBC Radio Foyle, BBC Scotland, Capital Radio London, RTE T.V. 1, RTE T.V. 2, German national T.V., regional French T.V., Swiss national Radio, and local stations in many places including Boston. Interviews were given to most national newspapers and to magazines in Ireland and abroad. Information and advice was constantly sought by numerous groups and individuals. Initially, the Popular Music Officer attempted to respond to these requests by preparing a series of fact-sheets on some of the important aspects of the music business. However, it soon became apparent that fact-sheets were of value only in conjunction with a face to face meeting. The officer therefore meets with several bands and solo artists per month.

Traditional Music

During 1988 the Council strove to maintain support for important organisations involved in the promotion of traditional music and to develop further its policy of concentrating on the role of the solo performer in the transmission and development of the tradition. Given the severe financial constraints under which the Council had to operate, only limited development of initiatives in this area were possible but the Council is confident that even small scale pilot projects have a valuable function in evaluating the need for specific services. For example, the Council's decision to support traditional music for primary school teachers, based on a project devised in St Oliver Plunkett's School, Malahide, Dublin, and administered by the Music Awareness Agency, produced a range of interesting responses from teachers who identified particular educational resources which could facilitate the integration of traditional music into the curriculum. The Council will be examining this area in greater detail in 1989 to identify the most appropriate and effective role it can have in this respect of the arts-in-education. Another significant initiative taken by the Council during 1988 was the establishment of a scheme to fund traditional music masterclasses which will provide an opportunity for a number of young musicians of ability, who have reached an advanced level of performance, to engage with outstanding established performers. The first masterclass was held in co-operation with Cairdeas na bhFidléirí, and was directed by one of this century's most celebrated fiddle players, Seán McGuire. The Council acknowledges the assistance of Na Píobairí Uilleann in this promotion, and is confident that this scheme will be expanded in 1989 to cover other instruments in venues throughout the country. The provision of masterclasses complements other aspects of the Council's involvement in traditional music such as support for the solo performer through the Music Network's touring programme and concentration on improving performance standards by funding summer schools, workshops and education programmes. The Council's policy in traditional music is informed by the recognition that traditional music is not "all the same", that the richness of regional, local and personal styles and repertoires, and that concentrating on these specific aspects of the tradition can have beneficial results for performers and audiences alike. The Council's major financial commitment in traditional music is to Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann/ The Irish Traditional Music Archive which the Council established in July 1987 and the Council looks forward to the development of this major resource in the coming years. The Council hopes to be able to address the Archive's major capital needs in the near future. Another project of an archival nature, organised by Alternative Entertainments, Tallaght, Co. Dublin, received a substantial increase in funding during the year and this clearly indicates the Council's strong commitment to this aspect of community arts in recent years. The Council provided grant-aid to a range of small projects throughout Ireland varying from weekend events to more long-term educational projects in Sligo, Leitrim, Clare, Conamara, Aran Islands, Kerry, Donegal, Louth and Monaghan, reflecting the great vitality of the traditional music scene over the country. Lean an Chomhairle Ealaíon ar aghaidh lena polasaí i gcomhar na hamhránaíochta ar an sean-nós tri dheantais a sholáthar do scéimeanna an Ghaelacadaimh agus Oideas Gael chomh maith le himeachtaí in Inis Eoghain agus in Inis, Co. an Chláir.

Awards £ Bernard Flaherty 1,100

Grants Alternative Entertainments, Tallaght (see also Community Arts) 2,025 Cairdeas na bhFidiléirí 2,500 Cairde na Cruite 639 Crana Publishing Company 1,200 Cumann Cheol Tíre Inis Oirr 500 Cumann Cheol Tíre Éireann 1,000 Féile Chomórtha Joe Einiú 350 Féile na hInse 350 An Gaelacadamh, Conamara 1,500 Irish Pipe Band Association 3,000 Irish Traditional Music Archive 45,500 Kerry County Council 300 Music Association of Ireland (see also Education) 3,700 Music Awareness Agency 2,500 The Music Network (see also Music) 16,500 Joe O'Dowd Branch, Sligo, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann 199 Joe O'Dowd Branch, Sligo (ACNI grant) 119 Oideas Gael 500 Na Píobairí Uilleann 13,600 Na Píobairí Uilleann/Cumann Cheol Tíre Éireann: Joint Administrative Centre 13,250 Scoil Acla 500 Scoil Cecil Inis Meáin 600 Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy 10,000 Siamsa Ó Thuaidh (ACNI grant) 592 Siamsa Tíre, Trá Lí 36,500 South Sligo Summer School 3,000 An Tóstal, Druim Bhó 500 Less: Previous year's grants not required (500)

Total/Awards and Grants 161,524

Sundry expenditure 1,281

Total as Note 4 (page 48) £162,805

Grants received Arts Council of Northern Ireland (2 grants) £711

Opera

Within the financial constraints imposed by a budget which is low by international standards of state subsidy of opera, the Council continued to fund three companies to produce opera in Ireland: the Dublin Grand Opera Society, Wexford Festival Opera, and Opera Theatre Company. The high costs of presenting main-stream repertoire in Dublin continued to present difficulties for the Dublin Grand Opera Society, which presented only one season of three operas over eleven nights in Spring: Verdi's II Trovatore, Puccini's Tosca and Mozart's Don Giovanni. Television cameras were present at Wexford Festival Opera for the first time to record performances of two operas for later broadcast on RTE and elsewhere in Europe. The operas performed were Dvorak's The Devil and Kate, Mercadaute's Elisa & Claudio and a double bill of Gazzanigal's Don Giovanni and Rossini's Turandot. Immediately after the festival, the production of Elisa & Claudio was toured to the South Bank in London. The festival appointed Jerome Hynes (formerly company manager of Druid Theatre Company in Galway) as its first Managing Director at the end of this year. Another welcome initiative was the commissioning of a study of the economic impact of the festival by John 0'Hagan, Professor of Economics at Trinity College, Dublin, for publication in 1989. Opera Theatre Company continued its work of touring opera with orchestral accompaniment to theatre venues throughout the country with a production of Carmen and Don Jose, an arrangement of Bizet's Carmen by the company's joint artistic directors, Ben Barnes and Proinnsias O Duinn. Performances were given in Dublin, Sligo, Limerick and Waterford, and in Coleraine, Belfast and Enniskillen in association with Opera Northern Ireland.

Grants £ Dublin Grand Opera Society 141,500 Wexford Festival Opera 100,400 Opera Theatre Company 85,500 Auditions for opera singers 1,050 Sundry 50

Total as Note 4 (page 48) £328,500

Music

Support for contemporary music, for the performance of music in centres outside of Dublin, and for the professional development of young musicians, continued to be the main objectives of the Council's support for music. Funds were provided to commission new works from thirteen composers, including a major award to Gerard Victory, for a chamber opera commissioned by the Ulysses Ensemble. The Contemporary Music Centre continued to receive assistance for its information and publishing programme, and engaged in a successful collaboration with the Dance Council in the promotion of a workshop for trainee choreographers and composers. In the course of the year, the Irish Chamber Orchestra performed works by Seoirse Bodley, John Kinsella and Philip Martin, and was heard in Dublin, Galway, Dundalk and Cork: in addition the orchestra toured briefly to Britain and Italy. Continuing grant-aid to the regional concert promoters, and to the Music Network, assisted recitals in more than a dozen regional centres throughout the year. Bursaries were awarded to fourteen young performing musicians and to two composers to assist their professional training abroad. The Council provided assistance to training workshops within Ireland in the areas of conducting, composition and jazz performance. The Council's assistance for choral music continued to be directed to the International Choral and Folk Dance Festival in Cork, and Cumann Náisiúnta na gCór, the umbrella body for choirs also in Cork.

Aosdána £ Cnuais to 6 composers 33,312

Awards Pauline Bourke 3,250 Geraldine Cassidy 700 Mary Clarke 500 Brona Colfer 500 Síle Daly 700 Kathleen Dineen 1,500 Daire Fitzgerald 1,100 Regina Hanley 1,500 Marian Ingoldsby 500 Mary Kelly 150 Oonagh Keogh 750 Margaret Lynch 1,800 Sara McGuinness (Dublin Corporation Scholarship) 2,000 John McLachlan 300 Anne Millea 1,000 Niall Morris 1,000 Niamh Murray 750 Regina Nathan 3,000 Dairine Ní Mheadhra 1,800 Ann O Briain 500 Aoileann O'Carroll 500 Anita Vedres 750 Gillian Williams 750 Collaborative Music Project Award Dance Council of Ireland with composers, Roger Doyle, Fergus Johnston, Michael Holohan, 3,000 Donal Hurley Composers' Commission Scheme Gerald Barry/The Music Network 495 John Buckley/Ben Dwyer 540 Rhona Clarke/Tallaght Choral Society 840 Frank Corcoran/Carrolls' Summer Music 750 Raymond Deane/Scannáin Chéad Shnamha 1,710 Seamus de Barra/Irish Youth Choir (balance) 1,340 Seamus de Barra/St Peter's Male Voice Choir 275 Jerome de Bromhead/Anthony Byrne 720 Roger Doyle/Sligo Arts Festival 1,170 Paul Hayes/Sara Stowe 945 Colin Mawby/Gillian Smith 720 Eric Sweeney/Concorde 200 Eric Sweeney/GPA Music in Great Irish Houses 720 Gerard Victory/Concorde 200 James Wilson/Nigel Williams 720 James Wilson/Aylish Kerrigan 525

Grants Concorde 2,000 Contemporary Music Centre 50,400 Cork Choral Festival 18,200 Cork Orchestral Society 4,250 Cumann Náisiúnta na gCór (see also Education) 32,400 Dublin Early Music Festival/Early Music Association of Ireland 1,000 Dublin International Organ Festival, 1988 (plus £2,500 in 1989) 2,500 Dublin Master Classes 2,000 Hawk's Well Theatre, Sligo (see also Arts Centres) 858 Irish Chamber Orchestra 49,800 Irish Youth Wind Ensemble 1,500 Jazz on the Terrace 2,000 Limerick Music Association 7,500 Music for Galway 8,500 "Music Ireland" 16,893 "Music Ireland" (ACNI grant) 3,507 The Music Network (see also Traditional Arts) 45,400 Triskel Arts Centre (see also Arts Centres) 500 Waterford Music Club 2,273 Less: Previous year's grants not required (1,240) Total as Note 4 (page 4 8) 323,723

Grants received Dublin Corporation (Awards) 1,500 Arts Council of Northern Ireland/ "Music Ireland" 3,507 Total as Note 2 (page 47) £5,007

Marten Toonder Award, 1988 (Trust Fund, Note 8, page 51) Gerard Barry, composer £3,000

Arts Centres and Festivals

It is the view of the Council that Arts Centres are central to the creation of greater access to the arts throughout the country and to the maintenance of high standards of excellence in the arts in their areas. The Council is deeply conscious of the great deal of time and energy which is devoted by the voluntary members of the various arts centre boards to the well-being of their organisations. As in other areas of the arts voluntary input is a significant contributor to the success of arts enterprise. The Council wishes to record its great appreciation for work done by such volunteers. The burden of responsibility for the successful running of arts centres falls upon the full-time professional staff. The Council believes that their efforts should be properly awarded and has been striving to ensure proper remuneration for such professionals. As in other areas progress is dependent upon grant-aid and in 1988 the level of grant-aid from Council to many of the arts centres did not increase significantly, due to the Council's own financial position. At the Belltable in Limerick, a programme of visual arts exhibitions and significant amounts of community outreach work complemented the established programme of professional theatre. The Island Theatre Company was a significant contributor to this latter element. During 1988, the Belltable also organised two film seasons and a series of workshops which concentrated on children. At the Triskel Arts Centre in Cork, the expertise of the staff and the design of the centre allowed for activity in the visual arts, film, music, drama and poetry readings. 1988 saw the completion of the main gallery. The policy of Triskel during the year was to provide exhibitions which favoured local artists but also provided opportunities for the introduction of new artists to the region. Workshops were run in association with Cork Teachers' Centre. The film programme at Triskel ran for three nights per week from September to May and the works shown were primarily films not readily available on the commercial circuit. There were regular lunch-time and evening concerts of classical, jazz and traditional music. The newly installed lighting board allowed for usage by local and travel groups, and some touring shows. Poetry readings and book launches were presented in association with Poetry Ireland and a number of Writers' Workshops were held. The Board of Triskel continued to raise funds to address the capital debt which is a continuing drain on the resources of the centre. It is the objective of the board to clear this debt as quickly as possible. At the Hawk's Well in 1988 the artistic objectives have been very broad. They presented the best of professional drama available to them and put on many shows by local amateur groups. Hawks' Well stimulated the emergence of the Acorn Theatre Company which was supported by FAS schemes. The programme of music during 1988 included traditional and classical music. The Hawks' Well was also the venue for the amateur drama league amateur drama festival. Garter Lane Arts Centre in Waterford operates in two buildings. Garter Lane is the centres main gallery administration and general purpose rooms. Garter Lane II has a 176 seater auditorium, gallery space and general purpose rooms. The centre is playing a significant part in the cultural revitalisation of Waterford and in the refurbishment of its buildings is contributing towards the preservation of the architectural heritage of Waterford. The centre provides a venue for the exhibition of contemporary art in the fields of music, the visaul arts and drama. The centre is the home of the successful Red Kettle Theatre Company. In the Project Arts Centre the financial difficulties which have beset the centre for a number of years were brought under control during 1988. The exhibition pace in Project saw a large number of exciting exhibitions and the performance area was used very extensively by professional companies including Rough Magic, Theatre of Open Secrets, amongst others. The National Youth Theatre presented "Parents" and also "Gulliver" which later toured to the liningrad Festival. The Nuns Island Arts Centre in Galway presented a programme which included dance, drama, film, workshops for children and adults, during 1988. The Centre continued its work in providing a focus for contemporary arts in Galway and looked towards expanding its range of activities in 1989. Wexford Arts Centre was specially concerned to provide as many opportunities as possible for the people of Wexford to participate in arts activity

including contemporary arts, traditional, classical, jazz and popular music. Music Network toured to the centre in 1988. The centre ran the ninth annual Movement Month which is a significant event for dance nationally. Exhibitions were presented in the Pillar Room during the year and in the Cellar restaurant exhibitions of local artists were presented on an ongoing basis. A number of readings took place including readings by Pat Ingoldsby and Billy Roche. The 11th Galway Arts Festival confirmed its place amongst the larger arts festivals on the island along with the Belfast Festival at Queen's and the Dublin Theatre Festival and Wexford Opera Festival. The London drama company Theatre de Complicite visited the Festival as did the black South African music and dance group, Amampondo. The Brian Bourke Restospective Exhibition was shown in No. 47 Dominick Street, now one of the main buildings of Galway Arts Centre. "Gulliver", performed by Macnas, paraded through the centre of Galway (c.f. Community Arts). Kilkenny Arts Week was distinguished by the visit from the singer Victoria de los Angeles, the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and by Gyorgy Pauk (violin) and Roger Vignoles (piano). Readings were given by Tom Kilroy and Seán Mac Mathúna. Arturo Sandoval performed with his Cuban jazz band.

Grants £ Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick (see also Visual Arts and Drama) 44,000 Garter Lane Centre Arts Centre, Waterford (see also Visual Arts) 51,600 Project Arts Centre, Dublin 94,600 Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin (see also Visual Arts and Education) 30,400 Triskel Arts Centre, Cork (see also Visual Arts and Music) 47,600 Wexford Arts Centre (see also Visual Arts and Drama) 55,750 Galway Arts Festival (see also Visual Arts) 14,100 Kilkenny Arts Week 18,000 Writers' Week, Listowel 3,000

Total as Note 4 (page 48) £359,050

Education

The year under review saw a certain maturing of the Council's policies and programmes in education, as revised in September 1985. It is important to emphasise that the Arts Council's support for the arts- in-education is by no means limited to activities supported by its education budget. Indeed the drama budget supports theatre-in-education to a level greater than the total ostensible education budget of the Arts Council. It is gratifying to record significant progress in the area of dance and education — the creation of Daghda Dance Company, a professional group attached to Thomond College; the careful dance education work being fostered by the Dance Council in partnership with Thomond College, the Department of Education and the Arts Council; and the development of Barefoot Dance Company in Wexford. In music perhaps the most exciting initiative was that of the Music Awareness Agency which developed an educationally sound service in the area of traditional music with support from the traditional arts budget of the Council. This initiative developed from the needs of practising primary teachers. In the visual arts the Council's four-tiered service continued to grow. Two more slide packs, one on ROSC '88 and the other on public sculpture, were added to those available for hire. The artists-in-schools scheme was extended to include Co. Donegal and a third exhibition was added to the series of visual arts shows specially commissioned for touring to second-level schools. Heads shows the work of seven sculptors exploring the human head. It follows Heroes and The School Show and there are now three counties and some fifty schools in receipt of this service. The artists-in-residence scheme for schools and Colleges of Education continues to attract a wide range of interesting proposals. In the school years 1986-87, 1987-88 and 1988-89 forty-five residencies have occurred in schools. Mary Nunan continued as dancer-in- residence at Thomond College while the printmaker Adrian Linehan became artist-in-residence at Mary Immaculate College of Education, Limerick. Beneath the surface of all this arts-in-education activity, the Council pursued its commitment to arts education. This arm of policy was expressed in 1988 by submissions and contributions to the work of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment and the Primary Review Body; by commencing a new curriculum development project in Wexford to explore the use of works of art with primary school children and their teachers; by grants to Cumann Náisiúnta na gCór and the Dance Council for curriculum development projects; and by the awarding of £4,000 in travel grants to help practising teachers take arts education courses abroad.

Awards £ Christine Ferguson 200 Jenny Hill 600 Anita McGinley 600 Mary McMahon 600 Victor Merriman 2,719 Carmel Murphy 600 Mary Nugent 600 Kevin O'Regan 3,018 Deirdre Shanly 600 Ann Marie Sheehan 1,564 Mary Stakelum 600

Grants Butler Gallery 1,000 CAFE/Creative Activity for Everyone (see also Community Arts and ACE) 500 Ceol Chumann na nÓg 5,250 Cumann Náisiúnta na gCór (see also Music) 4,500 Dance Council of Ireland (see also Dance) 500 Derry Front Line 500 Donegal County Council 700 Irish Schools Creative Writing Awards 1,400 Kerry County Council 1,100 Limerick Corporation 500 National Association for Youth Drama 8,300 Music Association of Ireland (see also Traditional Arts) 10,250 Thomond College of Education 3,000 Trinity College, Dublin, School of MUSÍC/Course for teachers 1,466

Artists-in-Residence Ballincollig Community School/Gabi Beuchert, ceramic artist 1,000 Broadford National School, Kildare/Maeve Monaghan, artist 1,000

An Bhunscoil Langhaelach, Ashbourne/Betty Maguire, sculptor 1,000 Camphill Community School, Ballytobin/David Lambert, sculptor 1,000 Catherine McAuley National School, Baggot Street/Laura Kelly, artist 1,000 Coolmine Community School/Terry Cartin, ceramic artist 1,000 Mary Immaculate College of Education, Limerick/Aidan Lenihan, printmaker 2,000 Mount Temple Comprehensive School/Linda Brunker, sculptor 500 Presentation Convent, Oranmore Paul Brennan, theatre doctor 1,000 Rosses Community School/Rosemary McCarron, textile artist 500 St Brendan's Community School, Birr/Michael Verdon, sculptor 1,000 St Mary's N.S., Limerick/Dairine Byme, artist 1,000 St Oliver's Community College, Drogheda/Ronan Halpin, sculptor 500 St Patrick's Boys National School, Cork/Frieda Meaney, batik artist 1,000 St Paul's Boys National School, North BrunswickStreet/Ronal Walsh, sculptor 1,000 Schull Community School/Brian Lalor, artist 1,000 Scoil Chaitríona, Sráid Bagóid/Miriam Lambert, puppeteer 1,000 Scoil Mhuire, Latton, Castleblayney/Michael Holohan, composer 1,000 Scoil Uí Mhuiri, Dunleer/Michael Burke, sculptor 1,000 Sligo School Project/Joanna Taylor, theatre designer 500

Less: Previous year's grants not required (600) Total/Awards and Grants £69,067

Arts Council Promotions "Artworks"/Co. Wexford primary school art project 1,334 "The School Show"/schools travelling exhibition 609 Less: 1986 expenditure capitalised (8,000) "Heroes'Vschools travelling exhibition 52 Less: 1987 expenditure capitalised (6,400) "Heads"/schools travelling exhibition 7,783 Slide Packs 1,432 Writers-in-Schools/new edition of information pack 6,015 Sundry 545

Total/Direct Promotions £3,370

Total as Note 4 (page 48) 72,437

Capital Expenditure "The School Show" (1986)/20 works of art 8,000 "Heroes" (1987)/16 works of art 6,400 "Heads" (1988) /7 works of art 4,650 "Artworks" (1989)/5 works of art 350 £19,400

Community Arts

The Arts Council continued with its policy of trying to intervene selectively to boost the growth of the community arts movement. The Council's policy is that set out in its 1984 Annual Report in respect of two types of organisations. The first type of organisation is that which operates in a direct and close way with its local community. The second type of organisation is that which believes that the direct involvement of its audiences in the process of the arts actively is at least as important and often more so, than the finished object, such as the sculpture, video or novel. The Arts Council implements this basic policy in a threefold way. First, the Council funds certain organisations and resource arts groups. Secondly, the Council engages in partnership arrangements with other agencies such as FAS, the Ireland Funds and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (U.K.). Thirdly, from time to time the Council embarks upon special projects in the interest of policy expansion such as its four year project team known as Arts Community Education (cf.. ACE). The work of FAS is of great importance since many community arts groups and arts centres are very dependent upon its funding. The enlightened acceptance of the value of community arts organisations and arts centres demonstrated by FAS is very welcome indeed. The community arts practice began to make its impact on the different arts disciplines. As a result, the Arts Council provided support for community arts from discipline budgets as well as from the Community Arts Section. The City Centre Arts Centre, which is located on the quays in Dublin, constitutes an important focus for community arts activity in the Dublin region and nationally. The City Centre has facilities for rehearsals for young rock bands. A major capital contribution to these studios has been made by U2 and some personnel associated with the band have assisted in the creation of these studios. During 1988, two Soviet artists, Nikolai Andronov and Vadim Kulakov, created a large mural along the Moss Street side of the Centre. A number of exhibitions were held in the Centre and studios were rented to artists. CAFE is the national representative body for the community arts and maintains a bank of information on artists and administrators in community arts. During the year CAFE produced several issues of its Newsletter, conducted some skills exchange workshops and developed its contacts with the adult education movement (c.f. ACE page 00). One of the striking features of the year was the achievement of very high quality spectacle theatre by Macnas (Galway), Theatre Omnibus (Limerick) and Sligo Community Arts Group. Macnas created their well-known "Gulliver" piece for the Dublin Millennium in July and performed it again during the Galway Arts Festival. Theatre Omnibus created a parade based on the Spanish Armada at the Ennis Arts Festival in June. Sligo Community Arts group ran Sligo Arts Festival which was held in October. The Sligo Group also produced "Fire on the Waters"; directed by Gill Bell, Imelda and Kilian Rogers and Kate Carter. This spectacle was based on the Battle of Moytura, which according to tradition was fought between the Tuath de Danaan and the Formorians. Up to 180 local people took part in the production, giant puppets enacted the battle, and music was performed on a synthesiser by Roger Doyle, who composed the work with Council assistance. Fireworks and firesculptures were provided by Theatre of Fire from Sheffield and the whole performance was witnessed by over 10,000 people. Dublin Youth Theatre presented O'Casey's "The Plough and the Stars" with different scenes played in their headquarters, on the street and in a local public house. They took a version of Swift's "Gulliver" to a youth theatre festival in Grodno, Ukraine, U.S.S.R. During the year at Wexford Arts Centre, its Artistic Director, Patrick Sutton, supervised the making of moving toys in primary schools; Anne Heffernan, the Community Visual Artist, worked on the creation of a summer playsculpture project entitled "Dinosaurs in the Park"; the local youth theatre. Pocket Theatre, performed the piece "Amphibians"; and Barefoot Dance Company, which is based in Wexford Arts Centre, gave many performances. Wet Paint Arts, is a Dublin-based company which specialises in young people's theatre in the community. During the months of March and April, its theatre production, "Dead A Head" toured to eleven communities across the City and County and played to over 100 youth organisations; as a result over 3,000 young people saw the show. The work of Wet Paint Arts shows the manner in which some artworks succeed superbly both as community arts and as fine arts. Organisations £ Alternative Entertainments, Tallaght (see also Traditional Arts) 2,000 Ballyfermot Arts Group 1,000 CAFE/Creative Activity for Everyone (see also ACE) 3,300 The City Centre, Dublin 33,400 Dublin Youth Theatre 3,000 Dún Laoghaire Creativity Centre 1,000 Galway Arts Centre (Nun's Island) (see also Literature and Visual Arts) 10,200 Moving Theatre 18,500 Theatre Omnibus 6,200 Tuam Theatre and Arts Centre 300 Womens' Community Press 500

Festivals Boyle Arts Festival 300 Cibéal Cincíse, Kenmare (see also Visual Art 3,500 Clifden Community Arts Week 3,000 Clonmel Arts Society 900 Cootehill Arts Festival 500 Ennis Arts Festival 750 Kinsale Arts Festival 500 Monaghan County Arts Festival 2,000 Sligo Community Arts Group (see also Regions) 5,000 Westport Arts Festival 600 Total as Note 4 (page 48) £96,450

ACE (Arts Community Education)

The ACE (Arts Community Education) committee was a four-year project team set up by the Arts Council and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (UK Branch) in 1985 to advise both of these bodies on future policy in community arts and arts education. The ACE committee's method was to fund several projects which, it was hoped, would be exemplary in terms of the practice in these two areas. Among the projects which were active during 1988 were CAFE and Fatima Development Group (Dublin) in the area of community arts and the Arts Education Workshop of Cork Teachers' Centre and City Vision (Dublin) in the area of the arts and education.

CAFE ACE's work with CAFE involved the setting up of the Information Network Project (INP). The INP consisted of two principal parts: (1) resources held within the CAFE office; (2) dissemination and programmes. During 1988, under the energetic guidance of Jude Bowles, Information Director, resources were built up consisting of an information bank held on computer together with a small library. The dissemination dimension consisted of the provision of an inquiry service; the CAFE Newsletter; access points to disks from CAFE data, the computer files, these points being available around the country; skills exchange workshops/and links with other like-minded organisations.

Fatima Development Group (FDG) ACE agreed with the Fatima Development Group (Dublin) to fund its plan which called for the appointment of a Co-ordinator who would act as a link person between residents of Fatmina Mansions and Dublin Corporation on the major architectural refurbishment programme in train in the flats. The plan also called for the implementation of a parallel community arts programme in the flats complex. The Co-ordinator, a local resident, was appointed in early 1988 and worked throughout the year. One of the projects involved the construction of architectural models of the proposed refurbishment. The FDG applied successfully to the Youth Project Unit of the Commission of the European Communities for funds to set up a community photography workshop. Two newsletters were produced. The ACE committee learned a great deal from this experiment in an enhanced role for decision-making by local residents in the architectural tranformation of their environment.

City Vision In line with its policy of strategic funding and in particular its policy of offering transition funding to projects in the period after they received ACE funding, the ACE committee awarded further monies to City Vision. This allowed it develop its work and in particular to present its work in North America with a view to securing further financial support and assistance. The international interest in City Vision's videos on pre-school art highlighted the unique importance of its work. In 1988 Helen O’Donoghue of City Vision continued er programme of workshops for parents and pre-school leaders in association with presentation of the videos and she also undertook a certain amount of follow-up work with pre-school children of the project ho had now entered the primary school system.

Cork Teachers' Centre Art Education Workshop This project, which began in June 1987, began to have an important influence on the practice of art education in the Cork region. The programme designed and implemented by the full-time Director ranged over four levels. The first was the provision of resources both hardware (a kiln) and software (slides, videos, etc.); the second was a series of workshops and courses for teachers; the third was a series of pilot projects in a number of areas of art education; the fourth was the commencement of an artist-in-schools programme, in association with Triskel Arts Centre. In February a major seminar and exhibition on art from pre-school to post-primary, called Full Circle, was held in the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork. In 1988 negotiations began with the Department of Education with a view to securing the future of the Workshop after ACE funding ceases in June 1989. "Art and the Ordinary — the ACE Report", edited by Ciaran Benson, was published in 1989.

£ City Vision 8,247 Cork Teachers' Centre 17,000 CAFE/Creative Activity for Everyone (see also Community Arts) 27,000 Fatima Development Group 16,400 Macnas, Co. Galway 6,028 Administration 10,766 Total as Note 4 (page 48) £85,441

Grant received: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation £52,172

Regions

The second phase of Arts Council partnership with local authorities continued in 1988 with a number of appointments of County/City Arts Officers/Organisers. In spite of their straitened economic circumstances and the embargo on appointments, a number of local authorities agreed to expand their cultural brief to encompass the employment of professional arts personnel. In addition to Counties Kerry and Donegal, appointments were agreed in Limerick City, Dundalk, Laois, Mayo, Cavan and Kilkenny. Newly-appointed Officers began the task of drafting a development plan for the arts in their area as well as implementing a programme of arts events. The imaginative approach of Clare County Council continued with a Spanish Armada parade devised by Theatre Omnibus during the Ennis Arts Festival and a collaboration between poet Paul Durcan and composer Michéal Ó Súilleabháin — "Nights in the Gardens of Clare", also commemorating the Spanish Armada. The artist's residency scheme in Co. Clare resulted in a touring exhibition of the work of artist Lorraine Wall, while another such scheme commenced with artist Frank McGuirr in the fishing town of Killybegs, Co. Donegal. In Limerick the Summer Festival featured works by Limerick artists on billboards around the city. An outdoor sculpture exhibition complemented the environs of Muckross House in Killarney. Arts Council funding allowed Mayo County Council to publish a compilation of the work of Mayo Writers "Writing in the West", resulting from the residency by writer Val Mulkerns. Additional local authority and Arts Council funding allowed Sligo Arts Festival to present "Fire on the Water", a community spectacle based around a composition by Roger Doyle. A circular issued by the Department of the Environment resulted in significant take-up by local authorities of the scheme to include sculpture and other art installations in public sites. (See under Visual Arts, page 18).

Grants £ Clare County Council: arts programme 6,000 administration 6,500 Donegal County Council: arts programme 5,200 administration 4,921 Dundalk Urban District Council: arts programme 1,200 Galway County Council: arts programme 948 Kerry County Council: arts programme 3,250 administration 6,211 Limerick Corporation: arts programme 9,520 administration 4,000 Moate Tidy Towns Committee 1,500 Sligo Community Arts Group (see also Community Arts) 3,000 Tyrone Guthrie Centre 54,667 Tyrone Guthrie Centre (ACNI grant) 27,333 Wexford Corporation 1,500

Less: Previous year's grants not required (277) Total/Grants £135,473

Directly Promoted Activities "Bootboys to Birdmen" Exhibition 1,831 Sundry 428 £2,259

Total as Note 4 (page 48) £137,732

Grant Received Arts Council of Northern Ireland/Tyrone Guthrie Centre £27,333

Capital Expenditure "Bootboys to Birdmen"10 works of art £1,266

Capital Grants

Grants £ National Theatre Society Ltd./Abbey and Peacock Theatre 30,000 Watergate Theatre Project, Kilkenny 7,250 Irish Film Institute, Dublin 31,500 The City Centre/Grapevine Arts Centre 9,844 Tyrone Guthrie Centre 31,250 Total as Note 4 (page 48) £109,844

Grant received Tyrone Guthrie Trust £55,733

Sundry

Grants £ Ciste Cholmcille 10,000 Irish Business Council for the Arts (COTHU) 5,500 Minimum Income Guarantee 4,840 Arts Act, 1973, Section 12, grants 4,425 24,765 Directly Promoted Activities "Art Matters" 5,791 Research and Information Projects 5,890 Arts Council Reports: "To Enable" — report on access to the arts in Ireland for people with disabilities (1988) 11,868 History of An Chomhairle Ealaíon 600 Annual Reports (1986 and 1987) 8,419 Popular Music Project 27,600 Aosdána: Pension Scheme 18,332 Administration 7,046 Other Council schemes and projects 8,785

Total as Note 4 (page48) £119,096

Grants Received Drogheda Corporation (Arts Act, 1973, Section 12) 500 Dundalk UDC (Arts Act, 1973, Section 12) 1,925 Wexford Corporation (Arts Act, 1973, Section 12) 2,000 Allied Irish Banks plc/COTHU 5,000 An Foras Aiseanna Saothair/ "To Enable" Report 5,643 Popular Music Industry Association 24,778

Total as Note 2 (page 47) £39,846

AN Chomairle Ealaíon

ACCOUNTS for the year ended 31st December 1988

Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General

I have examined in accordance with approved auditing standards the Accounts set out on pages 43 to 52 which are in the form approved under the provisions of the Arts Act, 1951.1 have obtained all the information and explanations which I considered necessary for the purpose of my audit.

In my opinion proper books of account have been kept by An Chomhairle and the Accounts, which are in agreement with them, give a true and fair view of the state of its affairs at 31st December 1988 and of its transactions and source and application of funds for the year then ended.

P. L. McDonnell, Comptroller and Auditor General

21st December 1989

STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND PRINCIPLES

General 1. An Chomhairle Ealaíon is an independent body set up pursuant to the Arts Acts 1951 and 1973 to promote and assist the arts.

2. 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 (£4,799,000) and the Vote for Increases in Remuneration (£125,000).

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 Motor vehicle over 4 years Works of art are stated at cost and are not depreciated.

5. Capital Account The Capital Account represents the unamortised value of income used to acquire fixed assets. Provision is made in the Income and Expenditure Account for a transfer to Capital Account which represent» the net change in the book value of fixed assets.

6. Bad Debts No provision is made in these accounts for bad debts. Debts and loans are written-off as necessary in the year in which it is recognised that they have become irrecoverable.

An Chomhairle Ealaíon

INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT for the year ended 31st December 1988

1988 1987

Notes IR£ IR£ Income Oireachtas Grant-in-aid 4,924,000 4,999,000 National Lottery' (1) 1,880,000 1,800,000 Funds of Suitors — 100,000 Other grants (2) 275,085 151,331 Other Income (3) 17,131 18,928 7,096,216 7,069,259

Current Expenditure

General Expenditure on the arts (4) 6,472,160 6,448,19 Administration (5) 580,594 595,072 7,052,754 7,043,263 Surplus 43,462 25,996 Transfer to Capital Account (7) 26,057 26,363 Net Surplus (Deficit) for the year 17,405 (367) Accumulated deficit brought forward (96,991) (96,624) Accumulated deficit carried forward (79,586) (96,991)

The Statement of Accounting Policies and Principles and Notes 1 to 12 form part of these accounts.

Colm Ó hEocha, Chairman.

Adrian Munnelly, Director.

21st December 1989

An Chomhairle Ealaíon

BALANCE SHEET AT 31st DECEMBER 1988

1988 1987

Notes IR£ IR£

Fixed Assets (6) 200,921 174,864 Trust Funds (8) 116,522 108,150 Loans (9) 82,965 121,241 Prize Bonds 505 505 Current Assets Debtors and prepayments 51,296 33,367 Cash at bank 35.309 33,367 86,605 142,450 Current Liabilities Creditors and accruals 56,920 71,373 Grants and guarantees outstanding 192,741 289,814 249,661 361,187

Net Current Liabilities (163,056) (218,737)

Total Assets less Current Liabilities 237,857 186,023

Represented by: Capital Account (7) 200,921 174,864 Income and Expenditure Account: Deficit (79,586) (96,991) Trust Funds (8) 116,522 108,150 237,857 186,023 The Statement of Accounting Policies and Principles and Notes 1 to 12 form part of these accounts.

Colm Ó hEocha, Chairman.

Adrian Munnelly, Director.

21st December 1989

An Chomhairle Ealaíon

STATEMENT OF SOURCE AND USE OF FUNDS for the year ended 31st December 1988

1988 1987 IR£ IR£

Source of funds: Surplus (Deficit) for the year 17,405 (367) Proceeds on the disposal of fixed assets — 6,946 Loans repaid 64,401 32,059

Adjustments for items not involving the movement of funds: Depreciation 15,239 15,391 Surplus on disposal of fixed assets — (1,051) Transfer to Capital Account 26,057 26,363 Loans converted to grants 8,000 4,105 131,102 83,446

Use of funds: Loans advanced 34,125 44,700 Purchase of fixed assets 41,296 47,649 Total uses of funds 75,421 92,349

Net increase (decrease) in funds 55,681 (8,903)

Increase (Decrease) in working capital: Grants paid in advance — (34,500) Debtors and prepayments 17,929 2,936 Creditors and accruals 14,453 8,428 Grants and guarantees outstanding 97,073 (19,782)

Movement in net liquid funds Cash at bank (73,774) 34,015 55,681 (8,903)

Colm Ó hEocha, Chairman.

Adrian Munnelly, Director.

21st December 1989

Note 1: National Lottery Pursuant to the provisions of Section 5(1) (a) of the National Lottery Act, 1986, a sum of £1,880,000 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 general programme of support for the arts.

Note 2: Other Grants (The project or scheme for which each grant was designated is given in parentheses)

1988 £ Literature Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Grants) 21,028 Bord na Gaeilge (Charles Pick Report) 1,300 British Embassy (Writers' Conference) 1,740 Córas Tráchtála (Charles Pick Report) 2,000 Industrial Development Authority (Charles Pick Report) 1,300 Netherlands Business Association (Awards) 2,000 29,368 Visual Arts Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Awards) 323 Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Louis le Brocquy exhibition) 4,753 Arts Council of Northern Ireland (German-Irish Exchange exhibition) 8,130 Department of Foreign Affairs (German-Irish Exchange exhibition) 10,000 Department of Justice (Writers Workshops for Prisoners) 2,316 Dublin Corporation (Awards) 1,500 Institut für Auslands Beziehungen (German-Irish Exchange exhibitions) 21,291 National Lottery (Louis le Brocquy exhibition) 14,700 Spanish Cultural Institute (Awards) 400 63,413 Dance Dublin Corporation (Awards) 1,500 Traditional Arts Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Grants) 711 Music Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Grant) 3,507 Dublin Corporation (Awards) 1,500 5,007 Arts/Community/Education Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 52,174

Regions Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Grant) 27,333

Capital Tyrone Guthrie Trust 55,733

Sundry Allied Irish Banks plc (COTHÚ) 5,000 Drogheda Corporation (Scholarships) 500 Dundalk Urban District Council (Scholarships) 1,925 An Foras Aiseanna Saothair (To Enable' report) 5,643 Popular Music Industry Association 24,778 Wexford Corporation (Scholarships) 2,000 39,846 275,085

Note 3: Other Income 1988 1987 Sundry income 17,131 17,877 Surplus on disposal of fixed assets — 1,051 17,131 18,928

Note 4: General Expenditure on the Arts Grants Directly 1988 1987 Promoted Total Total Activities £ £ £ £

Literature 422,252 40,135 462,387 389,444

"Visual Arts 718,527 104,446 822,973 706,856

Film 122,000 1,975 123,975 91,325

Drama 2,843,025 7,608 2,850,633 2,754,508

Dance 417,100 14 417,114 493,036

Traditional Arts 161,524 1,281 162,805 133,689

Opera 327,400 1,100 328,500 326,865

Music 323,723 — 323,723 307,189

Arts Centres and Festivals 359,050 — 359,050 342,954

Arts in Education 69,067 3,370 72,437 88,860

Community Arts 96,450 — 96,450 114,050

Arts/Community/Education programme 74,675 10,766 85,441 77,089

Arts development in the regions 135,473 2,259 137,732 161,070

Capital 109,844 — 109,844 381,008

Sundry 24,765 94,331 119,096 80,248

TOTALS 6,204,875 267,285 6,472,160 6,448,191

*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 of art may not be resold without the prior agreement of the Council and, in the event of such agreement, they shall not be resold for less than their original price, and half the sum realised shall be refunded to the Council.

Note 5: Administration 1988 1987 £ £ Salaries, PRSI and Superannuation 347,486 343,014 Council and Staff Expenses 86,536 83,717 Consultants' Fees and Expenses 8,293 9,660 Improvements to premises — 14,805 Rent, light. Heat, Insurances, Cleaning, Repairs and other House Expenses 58,452 58,662 Printing, Stationery, Postage, Telephone and Sundry Expenses 64,588 69,823 Depreciation 15,239 15,391 580,594 595,072

Note 6: Fixed Assets Works Motor Vehicle Furniture and TOTAL of Art Equipment

Cost £ £ £ £ Balance at 31st December 1987 133,020 15,900 57,147 206,067 Additions at cost 31,516 — 9,780 41,296

Balance at 31st December 1988 164,536 15,900 66,927 247,363

Depreciation Balance at 31st December 1987 — 3,975 27,228 31,203 Charge for the year — 3,975 11,264 15.239

Balance at 31st December 1988 — 7,950 38,492 46,442

Net Book Value At 31st December 1988 164,536 7,950 28,435 200,921

At 31st December 1987 133,020 11,925 29,919 174,864

Note 7: Capital Account 1988 1987

£ £ Balance at 1st January 174,864 148,501 Purchase of Fixed Assets 41,296 47,649 Disposal of Fixed Assets — (11,790) 41,296 35,859

Depreciation 15,239 15,391 Depreciation on disposals — (5,895) 15,239 9,496 Transfer from Income and Expenditure Account 26,057 26,363 Balance at 31st December 200,921 174,864

Note 8: Trust Funds Assets at 31st December 1988 £ £ President Douglas Hyde Award £. 1,342 11.50% Finance Stock, 1991-93 1,307 (Market Value of Securities £1,407) Cash at Bank 505 1,812

W. J. B. Macaulay foundation £31,337 13.00% Exchequer Stock, 1994 31,249 £ 1,000 9.00% Capital Loan, 1996 1,020 (Market Value of Securities £39,294) Cash at Bank 4,449 36,718

New York Irish Institute fund £. 1,736 11.50% Finance Stock, 1991-93 1,691 (Market Value of Securities £1,820) 1,691

Denis Devlin Foundation £ 3,761 13.00% Exchequer Stock, 1994 3,766 £ 1,000 9.00% Capital Loan, 1996 1,020 (Market Value of Securities £5,610) Cash at Bank 1,022 5,808

Ciste Cholmcille £ 1,200 7.00% National Loan, 1987-92 1,030 £ 1,020 9.75% National Development Loan, 1992-97 1,005 £ 2,000 11.00% National Loan, 1993-98 1,840 £ 5,906 18.25% Land Bonds 5,995 £ 3,350 Bank of Ireland Capital Stock 9,999 £ 3,695 Allied Irish Banks pie 25p shares 7,926 (Market Value of Securities £33,151) 27,795 Debtors 696 Cash at Bank 9,464 37,955

Marten Toonder Foundation £ 6,000 11,00% National Loan, 1993-98 5,583 £ 6,600 12.00% Conversion Stock, 1995 6,711 £ 4,370 13.00% Exchequer Stock, 1994 4,373 £ 5,281 Bank of Ireland Capital Stock 6,291 9,902 Allied Irish Banks pie 25p shares 11,998 (Market Value of Securities £64,491) 34,956 Creditors (5,134) Debtor 551 Cash at Bank 1,286 31,659

Reg Cant Memorial Fund Cash at Bank 879 116,522 Securities are shown at cost and are held in trust by An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Note 8: (Continued) Movement of Trust Funds:

31st Income Expenditure Gain on 31st December exchange of December 1987 investment 1988 £ £ £ £ £ President Douglas Hyde Award 1,675 182 45 — 1,812 W. J. B. Macaulay Foundation 35,861 4,359 3,502 — 36,718 New York Irish Institute Fund 1,691 200 200 — 1,691 Denis Devlin Foundation 6,361 647 1,200 — 5,808 Ciste Cholmcille 31,218 14,318 8,700 1,119 37,955 Marten Toonder Foundation 30,498 4,161 3,000 — 31,659 Reg Cant Memorial Fund 846 33 — — 879 108,150 23,900 16,647 1,119 116,522

Note 9: Interest Free Loans During 1988 six additional interest-free loans were made: £ Balance at 31st December 1987 121,241 Additional Loans 34,125 Repayments (64,401) Loan converted to a grant (8,000) Balance at 31st December 1988 82,965

Note 10: Premises The Council occupies premises at 70 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 under a lease which expires in 2014. The annual rent is £37,000 subject to a review every five years. The next review falls due in 1989.

Note 11: Future Commitments At 31st December 1988 the Council had entered into commitments in connection with various activities due to take place after that date. The amount involved, £3,988,000, is not reflected in these accounts.

Note 12: Superannuation Schemes (a) A Staff Superannuation Scheme under Section 10 of the Arts Act, 1973, is in operation. The Scheme provides for equal contributions to be made by the Council and staff and for the insurance of retirement benefits, which are defined. In the light of the most recent actuarial review, undertaken as at 1st January 1989, which disclosed a deficiency and which strongly recommended a funding increase, a provision of £10,587 has been made in these accounts in respect of the deficiency. Sanction for a funding increase has been sought from the Department of the Taoiseach in accordance with the Act, but has not yet been received.

(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.