An Chomhaırle Ealaíon

An Chéad Tuarascáil Bhliantúil is Triócha maille le Cuntaís don bhliain dar chríoch 31ú Nollaig 1982. Tíolacadh don Rialtas agus leagadh faoi bhráid gach Tí den Oireachtas de bhun Altanna 6(3) agus 7(1) den Acht Ealaíon 1951 (PI. 1872).

Thirty-first Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31st December 1982. 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 03 6 ISSN 0790-1573

Cover: Photograph by Patricia Langlois of "Molly's Room" by Helen Comer ford from the Bloomsday 1982 — James Joyce Centenary Exhibition at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, .

Members James White, Chairman Robert Ballagh (from June) Kathleen Barrington Brian Boydell Máire de Paor Andrew Devane Bridget Doolan (until September) Brian Friel (from June) Arthur Gibney (from December) Dr J. B. Kearney Proinsias Mac Aonghusa (from June) Patrick J. Murphy (from June) Donald Potter Nóra Relihan Michael Scott Richard Stokes Dr T. J. Walsh James Warwick

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

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

An Chomhaırle Ealaíon

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

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

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

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

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

Contents

Page Chairman's Introduction 5 Artists Programmes 7 Awards to Individuals 7 Literature 8 Visual Arts 11 Drama 15 Dance 18 Traditional Music 19 Opera 20 Music 21 Film 23 Arts Centres and Festivals 24 Community Arts 25 Education 26 The Regions 29 Capital 31 Accounts 33

Chairman's Introduction

The year was marked by stresses and strains not only on the Council's budgets but also on the Council's role as the statutory body with responsibility for promoting and assisting the arts. The initial grant-in-aid was increased by 2.4% over the previous year and although a supplementary grant of £242,000 was received later in the year to meet pay increases in certain subvented organisations, due to the limited funds available, the Council faced 1982 with a number of stark choices.

As a result of the controversies that followed during the year it became very clear that the constraints on the Arts Council were not understood and appreciated either by arts organisations or by the public at large. In so far as there was any debate on the Council's role it centred on individual organisations aggrieved by an unfavourable decision of the Council. Attention was not focused on the overall issues affecting the arts in or on the Council's priorities in seeking to address these. Discussion was restricted to the consideration of those individual cases which had become a casualty of the Council's policies and little or no effort was made to assess these organisations in terms of their place in the overall arts "scene" on the one hand, and the limited resources available to the Council, on the other.

The Council recognises that it must accept responsibility itself for the fact that its role was so widely misunderstood and will, in future, seek to establish conditions which will lead to an informed debate on the merits and demerits of the Council's policies.

This Report is intended to explain the background to some of the controversies that arose during the year in order to clarify the issues which were being addressed by the Council.

1982 marked the centenary of the birth of James Joyce. Arts organisations acknowledged this great artist by arranging special events or by including a Joycean dimension in their programmes. The Council decided on a number of initiatives as a contribution to the centenary year.

Five artists were invited to devise a poster for international distribution and the proposals of Charles Tyrrell and Patrick Hickey were selected. Their posters were published in cooperation with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Bord Fáilte and were widely circulated. A special exhibition at the Douglas Hyde Gallery was arranged for the month of June. For this exhibition six artists received grants to execute a painting, sculpture or installation inspired by the work of Joyce. One of these is featured on the cover of this Report. A jazz suite to give musical expression to some of the ideas and events in "Ulysses" was commissioned from Louis Stewart and it received its first performance at the Cork Jazz Festival.

A suitable literary acknowledgement of this great writer was embodied in the James Joyce Fiction Prize for which writers were invited to compete on an anonymous basis and the Council was honoured that Francis Stuart, Jennifer Johnston and John Banville agreed to adjudicate. (The prize was not, in fact, awarded as the adjudicators did not feel that the works submitted merited this accolade).

The Council's programme to honour the life and work of James Joyce concentrated on the creative artist in modern Ireland. The memory of one of Ireland's greatest artists was provided as an inspiration to his fellow artists working in Ireland a hundred years after his birth. The emphasis which the Council has given in previous years to the place of the artist in our society was continued in 1982 as support to members of Aosdána came on stream.

By the end of the year the Council had awarded a Cnuas — the annual grant of £4,000 paid for a five year term — to forty-four of the ninety-six members. A Cnuas is available to those members of Aosdána who wish to devote their energies on a fulltime basis to their art and whose financial circumstances are such that this can only be achieved by benefiting from a Cnuas.

Aosdána acknowledges achievement and distinction by creative artists. The outstanding contribution which performing artists have made to the arts in Ireland will, it is hoped, be recognised by the Council through a parallel scheme which is only in the early

stages of discussion. The circumstances of a particular person who has made an important contribution to the performing arts became known to the Council and a Minimum Income Guarantee was devised by the Council as a measure to assist a continuing involvement in the performing arts by the recipient. The Minimum Income Guarantee assures a basic level of income during a given year; if the performing artist achieves a higher income no grant is paid, but if a lower income is earned, then that is supplemented in order to increase it to be minimum level. The Minimum Income Guarantee will be a component of the Council's scheme to honour outstanding achievement in the performing arts.

It is now an established practice to meet annually with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland in joint session. The 1982 joint meeting took place in Dublin and both Councils considered the possible response of the arts to the problems of a society which will experience unemployment or underemployment on a wide scale. It was agreed that arts programmes could play a vital role in assisting individuals and communities through a period of major social readjustment. However, the scale of funding required for such programmes is such as to virtually exclude either Arts Council from a funding role and both Councils determined to enter into discussions with their respective Government departments and agencies towards the provision of an arts dimension in all job creation, adult education and recreation programmes.

At the very end of the year, the change of Government saw the appointment of a Minister of State for Arts and Culture at the Department of the Taoiseach. There had been speculation during the year that such a development was under consideration. In so far as it was being suggested that this might limit the independence of- the Arts Council, concern was expressed by members of the Council. However, since his appointment as Minister of State, Ted Nealon T.D. has given assurances that the statutory autonomy of the Council will not be infringed, that the promotion of all the arts as defined by the Arts Acts will be the function of the Council and that members of the Council will continue to be appointed by the Taoiseach. The unequivocal recognition by the Minister of State of the role of the Arts Council is to be welcomed and we hope that his appointment signals a commitment by the Government to the greater development of the artistic and cultural life of the nation.

The Taoiseach appointed five new members to the Council during the year. Robert Ballagh, Brian Friel, Arthur Gibney, Proinsias Mac Aonghusa and Patrick Murphy. They have strengthened the Council in its deliberations and have made valuable contributions in the short time since their appointments.

Bridget Doolan, who as a Council member since 1978 had shown great commitment to developing the Council's policies in music, regional development and educational programmes, resigned to give greater attention to her work in music education. I express the views of all my colleagues on the Council in thanking her for her energetic participation in our work and wishing her many successes in her own field.

James White Chairman

ARTISTS PROGRAMMES Aosdána (44 Cnuais) 99,000 Ciste Cholmcille 15,000 Minimum Income Guarantee 3,340 *Tyrone Guthrie Centre 52,500 Total Expenditure per Note 4 to the Accounts £169,840 *In association with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

AWARDS TO INDIVIDUALS Awards approved during 1982 are listed at the end of each section of the Report. Payments often extend over two or more financial years. The amount charged in the Accounts relates to payments during the year rather than amounts approved.

Charge for Approved year £ £ Literature 27,150 30,400 Visual Arts 26,600 20,632 Drama 1,500 2,250 Dance 6,746 8,090 Traditional Music 4,600 5,810 Music 27,488 26,511 Education 12,774 10,294 Total per Note 4 to the Accounts £103,987

Literature

Following the closure of the Irish University Press in 1974, the second phase of the Irish publishing revolution got underway, because so many of its editors, designers and other newly redundant personnel started their own publishing enterprises. The Arts Council responded by expanding its support and such enormous success has since attended the growth of publishing, that by 1981 American commentators could speak of "a new flowering" in describing publishing in Ireland.

In 1982, the Council carried out a radical re-examination of its policies towards publishing because the industry was seen to be passing into a new phase where relationships with other countries were becoming more and more significant through co-editions and export. The new approach to publishing, adopted by the Council in 1982, will reflect a greater concern for the effectiveness and administration of publishers.

Until now, the Council had been concerned with quantity in order to help generate activity; now that this has been achieved, the qualitative aspect of publishing becomes of greater relevance. In future, some publishers will receive assistance on the basis of maintaining their firms in operation throughout the year, an approach the Council employs in funding theatre, for instance. In the initial years of operation only those publishers concentrating on poetry, drama and fiction will be eligible for this new support. General publishing houses will continue to be eligible for grants and loans on a title-by-title basis. Applications for financial assistance will be considered twice a year, in March and October.

GRANTS

Publishers £ Arlen House - The Women's Press 2,500 Women's Stories and Poems, Collection The War Horse, Eavan Boland Beaver Row Press 700 The House that Jack didn't build, Brendan Kennelly Blackstaff Press 1,395 *The Selected Paul Durcan Children's Press 2,000 The Big Push, Joe O'Donnell Robbers in the Hills, Carolyn Swift Records 253 Alternative Government, Francis Stuart (cassette) Dolmen Press 3,500 Recital, James J. McAuley Jubilee for Renegades, Hugh Maxton Selected Poems, John Montague Rites and Meditations, Paul Murray Kist, Dennis O'Driscoll Gallery Press, Administration 3,750 Gallery Press 3,600 Comparative Lives, Harry Clifton New and Selected Poems, Pearse Hutchinson The Harper's Turn, Tom MacIntyre *The Chimeras by de Nerval, trans. Derek Mahon Irish Writers' Co-Operative 7,000 Macker's Garden, Sebastian Barry Plays, Neil Donnelly Plays, Bernard Farrell The Ikon Maker, Desmond Hogan Quintesse, Kevin Kiely *Plays, Graham Reid Captives, F. D. Sheridan Livia Records 300 Living Ghosts, Brendan Kennelly (cassette) O'Brien Press 1,000 The Port-Wine Stain, Patrick Boyle Poolbeg Press 1,000 *The Three Brothers, Michael McLaverty Raven Arts Press 5,700 Selected Poems, Anthony Cronin Ark of the North, Paul Durcan After Doomsday, Conleth Ellis Behind the Garden Gnomes, Conleth O'Connor Atlantic Blues, Michael O'Loughlin Society of Irish Playwrights 200 Petticoat Loose, M. J. Molloy Wolfhound Press 3,000 The Cloud of Desolation, Sam Baneham David's Daughter, Tamar, Margaret Barrington Shell, Sea Shell, Liam Lynch In Night's City, Dorothy Nelson Short Stories, Liam O'Flaherty Skerrett, Liam O'Flaherty Hermitage, Mervyn Wall

Magazines and Periodicals *Books Ireland 4,000 *Cyphers 1,000 Era 500 The Beau 800 The Crane Bag (see also under Visual Arts) 1,600 The Stony Thursday Book 500

Literary Organisations and Events North Cork Writers' Week 51 Poetry Ireland 9,700 Society of Irish Playwrights/Association of Irish Composers, Joint Administrative 10,025 Centre (see also under Music) Writers' Week, Listowel (see also under Visual Arts and Music) 6,370 Writers' Workshop, 3,000 Yeats' Society, Sligo 1,035

Publishing Industry *CLE (Irish Book Publishers' Association) 8,800 Irish Bookhandling Ltd 10,000 £93,279 * In association with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

DIRECTLY PROMOTED ACTIVITIES

Authors' Royalty Scheme Arlen House – The Womens' Press 1,125 Balance of 1981 commitment Brandon Book Publishers 1,250 Did He Stop Laughing? James Brennan Fighting with Shadows Dermot Healy Bornholm Night-Ferry Aidan Higgins Children's Press 700 Robbers in the Hills Carolyn Swift The Legend of the Golden Key Tom McCaughren The Big Push Joe O'Donnell Gallery Press 525 The Harper's Turn Tom MacIntyre Comparative Lives Harry Clifton Mercier Press 250 Balance of 1981 commitment Raven Arts Press 1,087 Behind the Garden Gnomes Conleth O'Connor We Have Kept the Faith Francis Stuart New Collection Sydney Bernard Smith 4,937 Less: Income (140) 4,797 Writers-in-Schools: Expenditure 8,826 Income (3,244) 5,582 Writers' Workshops for Prisoners Expenditure 650 Income (120) 530 Sundry 1,350 £12,259

Total Expenditure per Note 4 to the Accounts £105,538

GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS

Bursaries in Creative Writing £ Sebastian Barry 3,000 Dermot Bolger 1,500 Harry Clifton 2,500 Rosaleen Cowman 1,000 Pauline Devine 1,500 Conleth Ellis 2,500 Liam Lynch 3,000 Frank McGuinness 3,000 Michael O'Loughlin 2,000 Cathal O Searcaigh 1,500 Matthew Sweeney 3,000

Dublin Corporation Brendan Behan Fellowship, 1981-82 Tony Cafferky 2,000

Travel Grants Peter Fallon 250 Conleth O'Connor 400 £27,150

LOANS Arlen House - The Womens' Press 2,000 Children's Press (2 loans) 10,300 Irish Bookhandling Ltd 25,000 Irish Writers' Co-Operative 15,000 Wolfhound Press 22,000 Writers' Week, Listowel 2,400 £76,700

Visual Arts

In the exhibition area there was a move during 1982 towards a policy of encouraging organisations to mount their own exhibitions. The change in emphasis aims at encouraging initiatives from outside the Council. This policy involves a wider spectrum of the visual arts world in the actual making of exhibitions, and in particular, it has given the regional venues an input into the organisation of major tours. The three exhibitions organised in this way during 1982 were "Foursight" from the Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick; "Making Sense" from Project Arts Centre, Dublin; and an exhibition of the work of David Nash, organised by the Kilkenny Art Gallery Society. The Council will continue to be associated with travelling exhibitions, but the new approach represents a move away from exhibition selection in Dublin. In future, the Council's role will be to choose between the different proposals put before it for support and, with only a limited amount of money available, standards will obviously influence the selection of exhibitions.

The Douglas Hyde Gallery presented a particular problem for the Council during the year. There was concern for the financial management of the Gallery and the level of expenditure set out in their application for 1982-83. In addition to this a major deficit in the region of £62,000 had been incurred. In a year in which so little money was available for grants, the Council had to be convinced that any assistance given in 1982 would be efficiently and effectively managed. In the case of the Douglas Hyde Gallery the Council did not have that confidence. Discussions were entered into between the Council and Trinity College and during the year agreement was reached on the future structure of the gallery. An independent company, limited by guarantee, will be established in 1983 with a board of eight members jointly appointed by the College and the Council. This board will manage the affairs of the Douglas Hyde Gallery. It will operate independently of the College and will receive its grant from the Arts Council.

The Council mounted a major retrospective of the work of Patrick Collins which was seen in Cork, Belfast and Dublin; and toured an exhibition of Martin Gale's work in its "Artist's Response" series to nine venues outside Dublin.

Two exhibitions were shown in association with the Council — the Colin Harrison from the Orchard Gallery, Derry, at the Bank of Ireland in Dublin; and "New Objectivity" from the Goethe Institute, in the gallery of Kilkenny Castle.

PURCHASES FOR COLLECTION 1982

Artist/Title and Medium Purchased From Robert Armstrong/Interview (screenprint) Hanly Screenprint Workshop Charles Brady/Wallet (oil on canvas) Taylor Galleries Cecily Brennan/Path and Forest (watercolour and graphite on paper) Project Arts Centre Michael Cullen/Strawberry Nude with Friend (screenprint) Hanly Screenprint Workshop Graham Gingles/Studio (mixed media) Hendriks Gallery Joseph Hanly/Connection (screenprint) Hanly Screenprint Workshop Joseph Hanly/Untitled (screenprint) Hanly Screenprint Workshop Eithne Jordan/Battle (screenprint) Hanly Screenprint Workshop Eithne Jordan/Journey; A Bird Pond (watercolour) Project Arts Centre Helena Kelly/Landscape with No Donkey (etching) Artist Aileen McKeogh/A Break in the Clouds (mixed media) Project Arts Centre Seán McSweeney/Evening Tree (oil) Taylor Galleries Anne Madden/Pompeiian Doorway (pierre noir and oil) Taylor Galleries Anne Madden/Pompeiian Openings (pierre noir and oil) Taylor Galleries Ron Melling/August 81/82 (cryla and collage) Exhibition of Visual Art, Limerick Michael Mulcahy/Icarus (oil on canvas) Lincoln Gallery Audrey Mullins/A Story about Squares (acrylic on canvas) Tulfarris Art Gallery Exhibition Jill Nunn/Five Barrels between Cork and Limerick (oil on acrylic) Exhibition of Visual Art, Limerick Tony O'Malley/Winter Inscape with White (acrylic on board) Taylor Galleries Danny Osborne/Relic Polygons (acrylic on canvas) Taylor Galleries Mary Farl Powers/Cloud Torso (etching) Taylor Galleries Mary Farl Powers/Scarp (etching) Taylor Galleries Patrick Scott/Gold Painting 11 (gold leaf and acrylic on canvas) Taylor Galleries Charles Tyrell/Untitled (cryla and collage) Taylor Galleries

James Joyce Centenary Poster Commission: Brian Bourke James Joyce (acrylic on paper) Artist Barrie Cooke James Joyce (oil on canvas) Artist Felim Egan James Joyce (acrylic on canvas) Artist Patrick Hickey James Joyce (mixed media collage) Artist Charles Tyrell James Joyce (acrylic on canvas) Artist

GRANTS

Exhibitions £ An tOireachtas 2,000 Claremorris Art Committee 2,000 Exhibition of Visual Art, Limerick 2,900 Independent Artists 2,500 Writers' Week, Listowel: Art Committee, (see also under Literature and Music) 7,000 OASIS (Sculpture Exhibition) 3,200 Sculpture and Drawing Exhibition (S.A.D.E.), Cork 9,000 Séamus Murphy Retrospective Exhibition, Cork 2,500

Exhibition Assistance Schemes Belltable Arts Centre/Foursight 3,800 Belltable Arts Centre/An tOireachtas Exhibition 272 Frank Morris Exhibition 500 Grapevine Arts Centre/Children's Street Games 75 Kilkenny Art Gallery Society/David Nash Exhibition 5,100 Project Arts Centre/Making Sense 3,650

Galleries Cork Arts Society 3,169 Douglas Hyde Gallery 32,850 Gallery of Photography 4,500 Kilkenny Art Gallery Society 2,215 Sligo Art Gallery Society 1,675

Artists' Studios and Organisations Artspace, Cork 3,950 Association of Artists in Ireland 7,950 Black Church Print Studio, Dublin 13,500 Graphic Studio, Dublin 12,240 New Art Studio, Dublin 650 Visual Arts Centre, Dublin 8,000 Wicklow Fine Arts Press 1,500 Sculpture Space 350 Sculptors Society of Ireland 3,900

Publications The Crane Bag (see also under Literature) 150 Wolfhound Press/Contemporary Irish Art 7,000

Joint Purchase Athlone Regional Technical College 238 Kerry County Libraries 175 Mount Temple Comprehensive School 90 Roscommon County Libraries 200 Scarriff Community College 75 Spanish Point Convent 27 Trinity College, Dublin 244 University College, Dublin 830 149,975 Less: Previous year's grants not required (940) £149,035

DIRECTLY PROMOTED ACTIVITIES

Exhibitions Patrick Collins Retrospective 11,868 Martin Gale — Family and Friends 5,246 Colin Harrion 587

Touring Exhibitions *Drawing Towards (drawings) 1,855 *Out of the Shadows (photographs) 934 The Romantic Image 833 Francis Frith (photographs) 640 *Tony O'Malley — Miles Apart (paintings) 444 *Patterns from the Past (Irish patchwork) 164

General Expenses 3,998 26,569

Other Planning Advice 1,945 Slide Bank 1,869 James Joyce Centenary Poster Commission: Expenditure 10,285 †Capital Account (4,000) Income (6,587) (302) Re-Sale Rights 193 Sundry 861 £31,135 *Tour commenced in 1981 † The cost of acquiring the five original paintings is reflected in Capital Account. See Note 5 to the Accounts.

Total Expenditure per Note 4 to the Accounts £180,170

GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS

Bursaries in Visual Arts £ Declan Breen l,400 Cecily Brennan 800 Patrick Collins 1,000 Jackie Cooney 1,150 Michael Cullen 1,250 Patrick Graham 1,500 Eithne Jordan 1,000 John Keating 1,500 Patricia Langlois 1,000 Anna O'Sullivan 600 Michael O'Sullivan 800 Patrick O'Sullivan 1,000 Anita Shelbourne 750 John Noel Smith 1,000

North City Centre Community Action Project Brendan Walsh, Community Photographer 650 Studio in Milan Brian Maguire 3,300 George Campbell Memorial Travel Grant (In association with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Spanish Cultural Institute) Jacqueline Corbière 1,000 Macaulay Fellowship in Sculpture Paul O'Keefe 3,000 Travel Grants Vincent Brown 600 John Buckley 600 Helen Comerford 600 Clíodna Cussen 600 Patrick Graham 300 Alanna O'Kelly 600 Michael Warren 600 £26,600

LOANS Black Church Print Studio 3,000 Irish Exhibition of Living Art 2,000 ROSC 16,000 £21,000

Drama

The budget for Drama is the largest which the Council administers and accounts for almost half of total resources. The introduction to this Report has referred to the small initial increase (£90,000) received by the Council in its 1982 grant- in-aid. As a consequence, the Council had to face the choice of either continuing to fund all those organisations receiving grant-aid at the end of the previous year or of examining certain objectives and deciding how best to achieve them. A major concern was the continuation of professional touring theatre. With the advent of the Belltable Arts Centre in Limerick, and the Hawk's Well Theatre in Sligo (in addition to venues already established in Cork, Waterford, Wexford and Tralee) the emergence of a touring circuit was apparent. The needs of this circuit in terms of professional productions were growing and further significant growth was anticipated over the next few years. The Council was naturally concerned about the ability of the Company to make a significant contribution to the growing needs of these venues.

On a grant of £287,000 in 1981 the ITC was able to mount only three tours over a period of twenty-six weeks. The alternative to funding a single company was to make money available to independent managements to encourage them to tour productions on the new circuit. On examination it seemed likely that a greater number of productions and a greater number of touring weeks could be achieved from such a scheme for an amount of money similar to that granted to the ITC in 1981. The Council, therefore, was reluctantly forced to the conclusion that, in a choice between the ITC and a new touring scheme, it had to choose the latter in order to protect employment in the theatre and to provide the regional venues with sufficient productions to keep them open on a year round basis. By the end of 1982 the new touring scheme had operated so successfully that it had achieved sixteen productions touring for fifty-one weeks.

Production Production Company No. of Wks. (In chronological order) Touring On Baile's Strand Well of the Saints Irish Theatre Company 6 } Equus Cork Opera House 6 Private Dick Druid Theatre Company 1 A Keane Sense of Humour Gemini Productions 4 Accidental Death of an Anarchist Druid Theatre Company 2½ Educating Rita Edwards-mac Liammóir Productions 3 Stagestruck Oscar Productions 4 Childish Things World Theatre Productions 6 The Yankee Doodler } Dublin Contemporary Dance Theatre 1½ Playboy of the Western World Druid Theatre Company 2 The Factory Girls 3 The Communication Cord Field Day Theatre Company 3 Macbeth Actors Company of Ireland 6 Call me Daddy Oscar Productions 3 51

The decision to withdraw support from the Irish Theatre Company was made reluctantly. It was an unpleasant necessity and the Council regrets all the anguish that it caused the theatre fraternity, fully understanding the concern that this change of direction caused. However, by the end of the year the action taken proved to be the correct one. In addition to the touring scheme the Council provided guarantees to a new agency, the National Touring Agency, which is the main vehicle for providing management services both to production companies and to the venues using the touring scheme.

The death of Hilton Edwards during the year brought into sharp relief the future of the . Discussions had been held early in 1982 between the Council, Dr Edwards and his colleagues on the Board of the Gate Theatre with a view to restructuring the Board. It had been agreed that three nominees of the Arts Council would be appointed to the Board thus increasing its number to seven. As a result of Hilton Edwards' death, the whole future of the theatre is being reassessed by the Board and the Council.

In spite of the Council's financial difficulties, priority was given in 1982 to increasing the grant to Druid Theatre, Galway. However, some concern is felt about the future growth and development of Druid in view of the absence of adequate space in their present premises and the absence of significant local financial support.

Dublin Theatre Festival sought funds on the basis of a three-week festival, and the Council offered a grant of £82,000. Subsequently the organisers stated that they could not honour their commitment to proceed with a three-week event. As this announcement was made so close to the opening of the festival, the Council decided not to alter the level of support but it was made very clear to the organisers that in future years the Council could deal with them only on the basis that commitments entered into would be honoured.

GRANTS

Annual Grants £ Abbey and Peacock Theatres 1,068,125 Gate Theatre 228,835 Complacht an Darner 3,383 Cork Opera House 64,000 Cork Theatre Company 3,000 Druid Theatre, Galway 56,300 Dublin Theatre Festival 82,000 Everyman Playhouse, Cork 30,450 Focus Theatre, Dublin 20,100 Hawk's Well Theatre, Sligo 14,200 Pintsize Puppet Theatre 300 Siamsa Tíre, Trá Lí 21,000 1,591,693

Theatre Touring (a) Production Companies Irish Theatre Company 85,000 National Touring Agency 11,100 Actors' Company of Ireland 6,400 Cork Opera House Company 1,900 Edwards-mac Liammóir Productions 1,000 Gemini Productions 5,400 *Field Day Theatre Company, Derry 16,744 Oscar Productions 6,400 World Theatre Productions 21,670 (b) Regional Venues Dundalk Municipal Theatre 600 Monaghan Arts Co-Ordinating Committee: St Louis Convent 1,290 Sligo: Hawk's Well Theatre 21,934 Galway: Jesuit Hall 2,010 Limerick: Belltable Arts Centre 24,786 Tralee: Siamsa Tire Theatre 11,890 Cork Opera House 3,150 Cork: Everyman Playhouse 4,766 Cork Theatre Company: Granary Theatre 1,213 Waterford: Theatre Royal 9,515 Wexford: Theatre Royal 3,000 239,768 Total Expenditure per Note 4 to the Accounts £1,831,461 * In association with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland

GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS Scholarship for Apprentice Theatre Producer Paul Vincent Moore £1,500

LOANS Oscar Theatre 10,000 Theatre Touring Ltd 7,018 £17,018

Dance

The Council's priority in the field of dance is support for the Irish Ballet Company, the principal dance company in the country. The Council allocated £318,000 to IBC in 1982 which, although considerably less than was requested, nonetheless represented the minimum amount on which the company could function.

Having made this allocation to IBC the Council had to look carefully at all the other dance projects which had been assisted in the past, and unfortunately the remaining resources were so scarce that some difficult decisions had to be taken.

At first it seemed that Dublin City Ballet could not be assisted. This company had generated high box office income and substantial private sponsorship, and it was felt that, in the absence of a relatively small amount from the Council, a considerable amount of private funds might be lost to the arts. Following a review of the Council's budgets, it was decided to provide assistance at the same level as in the previous year, £40,000, and to arrange, in collaboration with Dublin City Ballet, an outside assessment of the company's work, with a view to informing future grant decisions.

One of the casualties of the year was the Dublin Contemporary Dance Company. This Company had done very good work in the contemporary dance field in previous years and the Council would like to see this continued, it being an area of importance to the development of dance in Ireland. Unfortunately, because of the very great pressure on the dance budget, Dublin Contemporary Dance was not assisted in 1982.

The development of the mime company in the Oscar Theatre was greatly to be admired (although it did not receive Council assistance). The Council is very encouraged to see that Vincent O'Neill, who established the company and who in 1980 received a bursary from the Council to study with Marcel Marceau, is, in fact, bringing mime successfully to large audiences in Ireland.

Dance scholarships were not offered in 1982 but three students, who were already in receipt of scholarships had their support renewed.

GRANTS £ Irish Ballet Company 318,000 Dublin City Ballet 40,000 Dance for the West Association 400 Dublin Contemporary Dance Theatre 1,000 359,400 Less: Previous year's grant not required (426) Total Expenditure per Note 4 to the Accounts £358,974

GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS

Scholarships (In association with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation) £ Kilian O'Callaghan 1,622 Daire O Dunlaing 2,312 Andrew Wilson 2,312

Travel Grant Ruth Way 500 £6,746

Traditional Music

During 1982, priority was given to the identification of long-term objectives for traditional music in collaboration with some of the individuals and organisations involved. There is an acceptance in the traditional music field of the value of such long-term objectives and agreement to work towards their achievement. Two objectives in particular — the cataloguing of traditional music and the establishment of a national archive — are recognised as being of prime importance to future generations of students and players. It is important that the many young and talented musicians who are highly skilled in the traditional music field should have access to the rich body of music that is available in order to enrich both their performance and their knowledge of the music. The Council sees this as being a most desirable way of ensuring that the tradition grows and develops rather than stagnates.

GRANTS Festivals £ Cibeal Cincíse, Neidín 500 Cork Folk Festival 500 Féile na Bóinne 579 Féile Oriel 350 Féile Pan Ceilteach, Cill Airne 1,500 Letterkenny International Folk Festival 2,500 Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy 2,300 Other Breandán Breathnach/Thematic Index Project 1,179 Carmanaigh na Cruite 325 Ceol 450 Coláiste Chonnacht 500 Comhaltas Ceoltoírí Eireann 51,120 Cork University Press, Bunting Collection by Míchéal Ó Súilleabháin 1,500 Cumann Cheol Tíre na hEireann 1,400 Cumann Píobaireachta na hEireann 750 /Seo Samhraidh 2,200 67,653 Less: Previous year's grants no longer required (950) £66,703

DIRECTLY PROMOTED ACTIVITIES Schools Folk Song Collection Scheme 1,186 Tape Copying 500 Sundry (25) £1,661 Total Expenditure per Note 4 to the Accounts £68,364

GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS Noel Hill and Gearóid O hAllmharáin, project on concertina music in Co. Clare 2,000 Seán Maguire, fiddler 1,000 Máire Ní Chaoimh, project on sean-nós singing in West Kerry 700 Kevin O'Callaghan, instrument-maker 800 Pádraig O Dubhlaoidh, instrument-maker 100 £4,600

LOAN Fundúireach an Riadaigh £12,000

Opera

The major controversy in Opera during 1982 was the Council's decision not to fund the Young Irish Artists group. This group was established in 1981 to produce an opera with orchestra in the Wexford Theatre Royal so as to give young singers an opportunity of performing on stage before the public. This would provide an important stepping stone from college music training into the world of the professional opera singer.

In 1982 the Young Irish Artists proposed to perform Mozart's Cosi fan tutte and the Council's view was that this was not an appropriate opera for the purpose of the educational objective which had been established in 1981. Since it appeared that the production of Cosi fan tutte was a regular opera promotion the Council did not feel that this group should have priority in securing funds for an orchestra over and above the more established promoting groups which were already providing opera outside Dublin and Cork. The Council subsequently had discussions with the group about their educational objectives and will continue to make provision for such a project in 1983 should Young Irish Artists, or any other group, chose to assume this role.

The Council decided to acquire lighting equipment which would be lent to small opera companies when on tour. The purchase will be made early in 1983.

GRANTS £ Dublin Grand Opera Society 59,800 Wexford Festival Opera 63,480 Dublin Children's Opera 500 Irish National Opera 22,100 Kilkenny Chamber Opera (Balance of 1981 Grant) 150 Waterford International Festival of Light Opera 8,500 Wicklow Opera Group 2,350 Total Expenditure per Note 4 to the Accounts £156,880

Music

At the beginning of 1982 the Council made representations to the Taoiseach in connection with the Government's approach to funding the arts and various cultural institutions.

In particular, it was felt that to have the National Concert Hall directly responsible to the Department of the Taoiseach is an anomaly. The Council feels strongly that it is the statutory body with responsibility for all the arts, and that the establishment of sections within the Department of the Taoiseach to deal with individual bodies is a retrograde development. The rationalisation which took place in 1976, when responsibility for funding four major theatre and dance bodies transferred to the Arts Council, is being contradicted by a policy which involves individual organisations receiving subvention direct from a government department. Such a policy undermines the philosophy of an autonomous Arts Council.

There were few new developments in the Council's support of music during the year. Importance was placed on continued support for composers through the Association of Irish Composers, the Irish Composers Centre and the Composers Commission Scheme.

COMPOSER'S COMMISSION SCHEME Composer Commissioned by £ Gerald Barry St Michael's Church, Dún Laoghaire 330 Brian Boydell Ceol Chumann na nÓg 530 Jerome de Bromhead Ulysses Wind Quintet 850 Bernard Geary Third Day Chorale 860 John Gibson Ulysses Wind Quintet 850 Oliver Hynes Douglas Gunn Ensemble 330 John Kinsella Dublin County Choir 330 Jane O'Leary Comhceadal na gCór 330 Eric Sweeney Kilkenny Arts Week 330 Gerard Victory Eroica String Quartet 740 James Wilson Cadenza 530 £6,010

The Composers Centre completed the compilation of a catalogue of works by Irish composers and has now embarked upon the collection of taped recordings of works.

Soundpost is a magazine set up in 1981 with Council support to provide information and stimulate debate on issues of concern to music makers and audiences. Circulation improved during 1982.

Due to the small increase in its grant-in-aid, the Council was not in a position to offer new scholarships to young musicians. Expenditure was confined to continuing support for scholarship holders selected in previous years where this was necessary to enable them to complete courses which they had already commenced.

The Council adopted a policy of consolidating music activity outside Dublin and increased grants were given to some regional organisations and also to the Music Association of Ireland to assist it in the development of the Association's work in the regions.

GRANTS The Composer £ Association of Irish Composers (see also under Literature) 2,500 Concorde 400 Contemporary Music Resource Centre 19,000 Dublin Sinfonia 3,000 Orchestras and Ensembles Douglas Gunn Ensemble 500 Dublin Orchestral Players 350 Dublin Philharmonic Society 450 Henry Purcell Consort 2,163 New Irish Chamber Orchestra 36,700 *Ulster Orchestra 43,340 Concert Promotion Clonakilty Music Society 500 Cloyne Literary and Historical Society 250 Cork Orchestral Society 2,900 Drogheda Arts Group 400 Irish Georgian Society 275 Limerick Music Association 3,800 Michael Van Dessel Memorial Organ Rectial 78 Music Association of Ireland (see also under Education) 32,750 Music for Galway 1,900 Waterford Music Club 1,950 Writers' Week, Listowel (see also under Literature and Visual Arts 500 Choral Music Carlow Choral Union 150 Co. Monaghan Arts Co-ordinating Committee/Our Lady's Choral Society 1,200 Culwick Choral Society 1,200 Cumann Náisiúnta na gCór 12,100 Dún Laoghaire Choral Society 100 Eric Sweeney Singers 250 Our Lady's Choral Society 1,238 Tallaght Choral Society 750 Wicklow Choral Society 1,200 Festivals Cork Choral and Folk Dance Festival 25,915 Dublin International Organ Festival 2,000 Festival in Great Irish Houses (Balance of 1981 grant) 500 Festival of 20th Century Music 10,250 Killarney Bach Festival 600 Malahide Festival 200 Other Ossian Publications 1,000 Roberton Publications 421 Soundpost 4,500 217,280 Less: Previous year's grant not required (200) £217,080

DIRECTLY PROMOTED ACTIVITIES Composers Commission Scheme (see page 21) 6,010 Sundry (14) 5,996 Total Expenditure per Note 4 to the Accounts £223,076

GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS Music Scholarships £ Susan Briscoe (violin) 2,000 Pádraig Cusack ('cello) 1,000 Daire Fitzgerald ('cello) 6,000 Derek Hannigan (clarinet) (Balance of 3-year scholarship) 3,500 Rosalind Maguire (piano) 1,200 Emma Jane Murphy ('cello) 1,200 Paul O'Hanlon (violin) 2,000 Nuala O'Sullivan (voice) 588

Composer's Award John Buckley 5,000

Marten Toonder Award Seóirse Bodley, composer 3,000

James Joyce Commission Louis Stewart, jazz musician 2,000 £27,488

LOANS Claddagh Records 5,000 Cumann Náisiúnta na gCór 1,100 Music for Galway 4,000 £10,100

* In association with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

Film

The Council's major decision in the film was to discontinue funding the Cork Film Festival in its established form. Following lengthy discussions with the organisers it was concluded that the future of a Film Festival in Cork would be best organised on the basis of a continuing film theatre type operation in Cork City, the festival being the principal event each year. The artistic and financial difficulties which the Cork Film Festival had experienced in recent years could be addressed, it was felt, only in the context of an overall policy for showing cultural films in the city. The Council's discussions in this regard with the organisers of the film festival were successful and it was agreed early in 1982 that the Irish Film Theatre would be the appropriate agency for the organisation of any future film festival in Cork, which would be based around film theatre operation in the city.

Unfortunately the optimism at the beginning of the year for securing a venue for the IFT in Cork was dispelled, as three separate locations proved unavailable for the purpose, and by the end of the year the objective of establishing the IFT on a full-time basis in Cork City was no closer to realisation.

A disturbing trend in diminishing attendances at the Irish Film Theatre in Dublin during the last quarter of the year prompted the Board of the IFT to introduce a change in programming policies and to discard the membership requirement for admission. Although the IFT had not received any grant since its inception in 1976, there were indications that funding from the Council would have to be sought in 1983.

Another disappointment was the decline in the number of societies affiliated to the Federation of Irish Film Societies — from 47 in 1981 to 37 in 1982. The recession and the huge popularity of home video were blamed for this drop in numbers, but the cost of the product and lack of good, comfortable venues, must also be a factor.

During 1982 the first production grants were made by Bord Scannán na hEireann/The Irish Film Board. The Council was already committed to making a film script award in collaboration with Radio Telefís Eireann, as in previous years. However, during the year, due to financial difficulties, RTE announced that it had to review its participation in the award and the possibility arose that the full amount of £55,000 might not be available. Prior to the announcement of the recipient of the award - Pat Murphy for her film Anne Devlin — discussions between RTE, the Film Board and the Council successfully arranged a financial package securing the full amount for the film-maker payable over two years. It was clear, however, that 1982 would be the last year of RTE's participation in the award, and since the Council does not have the ability to offer substantial production grants from its own funds, it may in future have to concentrate on script awards and the encouragement of new writing for films.

GRANTS £ Celtic Film Festival 5,000 Cork Film Festival 65,851 Federation of Irish Film Societies 13,400 National Film Institute 17,500

Film Script Awards City Vision Group 5,000 Tim Booth 10,000 Pat Murphy 30,000 Neville Presho 10,000 £156,751 Sundry (349) Total Expenditure per Note 4 to the Accounts £156,402

Arts Centres and Festivals

Many arts centres suffered a difficult year financially. Nevertheless, progress was made in the provision of additional venues. In April, the Nuns' Island Centre for the Arts opened in Galway. This interim arts centre is run by Galway Arts Group, which hopes to develop a major centre in the near future.

Triskel Arts Centre developed a major arts centre proposal for Cork in close consultation with the Council. Unfortunately, although the Council had approved a grant towards the purchase of a specific building, the owner withdrew the property at the last moment. Triskel are now seeking alternative premises.

The Ivy Leaf Arts Centre, Castleisland, Co. Kerry received small capital assistance to help it open during 1982. It is a community arts centre similar to that in Tuam, Co. Galway.

Project Arts Centre in Dublin provided an interesting series of one-person exhibitions from such artists as Cecily Brennan, Andrew Folan, Eithne Jordan, Aileen McKeogh and Nigel Rolfe. The centre's theatre presented experimental work such as The Golden Hair performed by Animals Don't Tap Dance.

Although cash problems assailed Wexford Arts Centre throughout the year, Cathy Hayes assembled another strikingly fine dance month in June, and community artist Tony Robinson continued to paint murals throughout the South-East.

The Belltable Arts Centre in Limerick did not receive any direct grant towards its activities in 1982, but did benefit from assistance through the exhibitions and theatre touring schemes.

GRANTS £ Gorey Arts Centre 9,690 Grapevine Arts Centre 21,980 Project Arts Centre 118,550 Triskel Arts Centre 16,100 Tuam Theatre Guild and Arts Centre 3,000 Waterford Arts Centre 1,917 Wexford Arts Centre 44,500

Clonmel Arts Society 920 Galway Arts Festival 3,390 Kilkenny Arts Week 8,000 Total Expenditure per Note 4 to the Accounts £228,047

Community Arts

The allocation for Community Arts was reduced by 20% in 1982, as a result of the Council's inadequate grant.

Several of the amateur or community based organisations previously assisted received no funding at all. The Council felt that in a time of cutback it had an obligation to concentrate its resources on protecting the employment of artists within the professional network. Although many community arts groups provide a valuable service it was reluctantly decided to transfer the resources previously devoted to community arts into other budgets which had a professional commitment.

GRANTS

Professional Groups £ Moving Theatre, Dublin 14,000 TEAM Educational Theatre 36,370

Multi-Media Dundalk Maytime Festival 3,500 Féile Ealaíon na nOg, Carna 250 Inner City Looking-On Festival 900 Waterford Arts-for-All 2,300

Music Feis Cecil, Dublin 2,200 Feis Maitiú, Cork 500

Dance Dublin Ballet Club 500 Total Expenditure per Note 4 to the Accounts £60,520

Education

In pursuance of a policy of creating greater awareness of and access to the arts in our schools and colleges the Council continued to develop and expand its own arts in education schemes — the Murals-in-Schools scheme, the Prints-for- Schools schemes, Visual Art resource packs, Writers-in-Schools — and maintained support for music in schools through the MAI School Recitals scheme and Ceol Chumann na nOg. In the theatre-in-education area the Council provided grant-aid to TEAM Education Theatre. TEAM'S activities were seriously curtailed because of the refusal of the Department of Education to provide matching grant-aid — a situation which threatens the future of this unique TIE company.

In 1982 the Council provided grants for in-service teacher training, mainly in Teacher Centres and again organised an Intermediate Certificate student arts awareness promotion.

The Council must again record its disappointment that no effort has been made by the Department of Education to improve the status of the arts in our schools. In particular, the position of music in the education system is little short of a national disgrace. It is hoped that proposals now with the Department will be acted upon and make the celebration of 1985 European Music Year a new beginning for music in Irish schools.

Seventy-eight schools participated in the Paint-on-the-Wall scheme for murals in primary schools during 1982:

Co. Cavan: St Anne's N.S., Bailieborough. Co. Clare: Mercy Convent, Ennistymon. Mountshannon N.S. Scariff N.S. Co. Cork: Ballincollig Boys N.S. Scoil Bhríde, Crosshaven. Co. Donegal: St Colmcille N.S., Carndonagh. Co. Galway: Convent of Mercy, Portumna Co. Kerry: Lios Teilic N.S., Tralee. Lyreacrompane N.S., Listowel. Co. Kildare: Kill N.S. Co. Laois: Shanahoe N.S., Mountrath. Co. Limerick: Angelboro N.S., Ballylanders. Co. Louth: Christian Brothers N.S., Dundalk. Dromiskin N.S. Ravensdale N.S. St Brigid's Special School, Dundalk. St Malachy's Girls N.S., Dundalk. St Malachy's Infants N.S., Dundalk. St Nicholas N.S., Dundalk. St Oliver Plunkett N.S., Blackrock. Scoil Mhuire an Trócaire, Ardee. Scoil Mhuire na nGael, Dundalk. Co. Mayo: St Angela's N.S., Castlebar. St Bríd's N.S., Castlebar.

Co. Monaghan: St Oliver Plunkett N.S., Castleblayney. Scoil Mhuire, Latton. Co. Sligo: Scoil Naomh Eanna, An Ceathrú Rua. Co. Wexford: Loreto Primary School, Gorey. Mercy School, Wexford. Our Lady of Lourdes N.S., Bunclody. St John of God Secondary School, Wexford. St Joseph's Primary School, New Ross. Scoil Mhuire, Broadway. Co. Wicklow: Rathnew Girls N.S. St Ernan's Boys N.S., Rathnew. St Kevin's N.S., Greystones. Dublin City and County: Assumption N.S., Walkinstown. Belgrove Boys Junior School, Clontarf. Christian Brothers N.S., James's Street. Christian Brothers School, St Mary's Place. Church of Ireland N.S., Dundrum. Convent of Jesus and Mercy, Goatstown. Divine Work School, Rathfarnham. Haddington Road Boys N.S. Harold's Cross Girls N.S. Holy Trinity School, Donaghmede. Kildare Place N.S., Upper Rathmines. Loreto Senior Primary School, Crumlin. Naomh Mhuire Loreto Boys N.S., Tallaght. Rathgar N.S., Rathgar Avenue. Round Tower School, Clondalkin. Saggart N.S. St Agnes School, Crumlin. St Brigid's Boys N.S., Killester. St Catherine's Primary School, Cabra. St Ciarán's Senior School, Brackenstown. St Eithne's Girls N.S., Raheny. St Francis Junior School, Raheny. St Kilian's N.S., Tallaght. St Mary's Girls School, Blackchurch. St Mary's N.S., Belmont Avenue. St Mathew's N.S., Sandymount. St Michael's House Special School, Ballymun. St Oliver Plunkett School, Malahide. St Patrick's Boys N.S., Skerries. St Paul's Junior N.S., Greenhills. St Peter's Boys, Walkinstown. St Pius X Boys N.S., Templeogue. St Pius X Girls N.S., Templeogue. St Teresa's School, Blackrock. School B. Holy Trinity, Donaghmede. Scoil Lorcáin, Stillorgan. Scoil Mhaelruain (Senior), Old Bawn. Scoil Mhuire N.S., Clondalkin. Senior Primary School, Niallstown. Sisters of Mercy School, Lower Baggot Street. Star of the Sea Boys N.S., Sandymount.

Nine county libraries, four more than in 1981, are now participating in the Prints-for-Schools scheme whereby a small exhibition is made available to post-primary schools for two to three weeks. The libraries in the scheme are

Carlow County Library Kildare County Library Clare County Library Kilkenny County Library Donegal County Library Leitrim County Library Kerry County Library Mayo County Library Tipperary Joint Library Committee.

GRANTS

Visual Arts £ Scoil Náithí, Sculpture in School Project 200 Belmullet Arts Group 100

Music Association of Irish Musical Societies 500 Ceol Chumann na nOg 5,525 Dublin Boy Choristers Summer School 250 Dublin Chamber Music Group 150 Music Association of Ireland: School Recitals (see also under Music) 5,500 Ormond Music 250 Royal Irish Academy of Music 500 Wexford School of Music 500

Other Clifden Community School: Arts Week 500 Co. Westmeath Vocational Education Committee; Adult Education Programme 217 Peoples' College, Dublin 600 Teachers' Centre, Drumcondra 100 Teachers' Centre, Limerick 80 £14,972

DIRECTLY PROMOTED ACTIVITIES Murals-in-Schools: Expenditure 32,607 Income (8,640) 23,967 Arts Council/City of Dublin V.E.C Joint Dance Project 3,176 Slide Packs: Expenditure 4,026 Income (1,169) 2,857 Prints-for-Schools: Prints on loan to Co. Clare Public Libraries 2,666 Other Expenditure 2,330 Income (2,050) 2,946 Theatre Training Board: Audience Survey 900 Sundry 2,391 £36,237 Total Expenditure per Note 4 to the Accounts £51,209

GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS

Bursary for a Teacher with an Arts Specialistition Catherine Johnston (continuation of 1981 award) 3,874 Hugh O'Donnell 8,900 £12,774

The Regions

Co. Donegal Arts Committee During the year Donegal Arts Committee formulated a nine point plan for the next five years of art activities in Donegal, and considerable progress in implementing it was made.

In memory of the late John Doherty an association of Donegal fiddlers was founded and organised a number of successful concerts in Glenties.

During 1982 considerable progress was made in introducing the arts to schools, through the Music-in-Schools and Prints-for-Schools schemes. TEAM Education Theatre Company performed regularly in secondary schools and six primary schools availed of the Murals-in-Schools scheme.

Exhibitions during the year included "James Joyce in Trieste" from the Italian Cultural Institute and "The Romantic Image" and Francis Frith photographs from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

Generous grants from the local authorities in Donegal have given the Committee every reason for optimism in the future. There was a noticable increase in arts activities and awareness in most districts and it is expected that this will continue through 1983.

Galway-Mayo Regional Arts Committee Despite the recession, arts sponsorship and local authority arts grants in Galway and Mayo increased during 1982, allowing a wide range of programmes to be operated through the network of local arts groups.

A bussing scheme was operated to help local groups attend arts events distant from their homes, and an information service was established with the publication every two months of Arts Events in the Galway-Mayo Region.

Co-operation with the Netherlands Ministry of Culture facilitated a touring exhibition and workshop in the region by a Dutch artist, and in turn a reading tour in the Netherlands by two poets from the West, Gerald Dawe and Richard Murphy, was arranged. These exchanges took place in the context of the Cultural Agreement made in 1980 between Ireland and The Netherlands. (By mid-1983, cultural agreements had been concluded with seven countries).

Tugadh le chéile eagraíochtaí atá freagrach as forbairt na Gaeltachta le cuidiú le clár imeachtaí ealaíne sa nGaeltacht. Cuireadh béim ar an litríocht, ar mhúineadh an tsean-nóis agus ar Fhéilte Ealaíne don óige. Féachadh chuige gur fhás an clár ealaíne go nádúrtha as braistint an phobail féin.

Mid-West Arts Association During 1982 concrete developments took place in the areas of music, literature and the visual arts. The provision of studio space by SFAD Co at Ballycaseymore House delighted those artists who benefited. In Co. Clare, during the summer a Composer-in-Residence scheme enabled John Buckley to begin work on a new composition. The number of MAI school recitals increased in the Mid-West and this should continue to build up an audience for music. Through the twinning of Limerick and Quimper (France) contact has been established with regional arts in Brittany and the new Arts Calendar will provide information on developments arising therefrom in 1983.

South West Arts South West Arts maintained and further developed a number of the projects initiated in 1981. These included the Posters-in-Schools scheme which brought exhibitions by Milton Glaser and various Polish artists to schools and art centres in the region; and What's on Kerry a monthly listing of arts events. This year also saw the setting up of a pilot project of seminars for principals of second-level schools to encourage greater use of available arts promotions.

The Arts Officer worked closely with the local authorities, advising on grant allocations under the 1973 Arts Act, and gave information and advice to individuals and groups becoming involved in arts promotion for the first time — for example, Kenmare's Cibeal Cincíse, and the Arts Centres in Kilworth and Castleisland.

South-East Regional Arts Committee During 1982 the South Eastern Regional Arts Committee organised a competition for visual artists. The competition attracted one hundred and two entries from which twenty-eight were selected for touring. The exhibition toured to Kilkenny, Waterford and Wexford, and a total of £1,500 was offered in prize money.

The Arts Officer and the Committee were pleased to assist in the co-ordination and organisation of Rare Clonmel Arts Week, in particular the arranging of an exhibition of 20th Century Irish Paintings shown during the week. The Committee also initiated and assisted in the planning and execution of public out-door murals by South Tipperary Art Group. Tipperary (SR) County Council assisted this project financially and also in kind, by making available space for a mural on the County Buildings.

The Committee continued to advise local authorities and other bodies in the region on arts matters, including the allocation of funds for arts development.

Regional Arts Officers: Michael McMullin, Co. Donegal Arts Committee, County Buildings, Lifford, Co. Donegal. Tel: Lifford 5. Helen Bygrove, Galway-Mayo Regional Arts Committee, Woodquay Court, Galway. Tel: (091) 68816. Marian Fitzgibbon, Mid-West Arts Association, 104 Henry Street, Limerick. Tel: (061) 314181. John O'Mahony, South-West Arts, 30 Princes Street, Cork. Tel: (021) 24914. Martin Quigley, South-East Regional Arts Committee, Industrial Estate, Waterford. Tel: (051) 74446.

GRANTS £ Co. Donegal Arts Committee 6,400 Galway-Mayo Arts Committee 12,000 Mid-West Arts Association 12,100 South-West Arts 9,417 South-East Regional Arts Committee 10,500 Total Expenditure per Note 4 to the Accounts £50,417

Capital

GRANTS

Abbey Theatre 90,666 Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick 10,000 Ivyleaf Arts Centre, Castleisland 2,000 Tyrone Guthrie Centre 10,000 Total Expenditure per Note 4 to the Accounts £112,666

An Chomhaırle Ealaíon

ACCOUNTS for the year ended 31st December 1982

Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General

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

In my opinion:– (a) proper books of account have been kept by An Chomhairle and the Account and Balance Sheet are in agreement with them; and (b) the Account and Balance Sheet together with notes 1 to 10 give a true and fair view of the transactions of An Chomahirle for the year ended 31st December 1982 and of the state of its affairs on that date.

P. L. McDonnell Comptroller and Auditor General

31st August 1983

INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT Year ended 31st December 1982

1981 £ Notes £ £ Income 3,750,000 Oireachtas Grant-in-Aid (1) 4,082,000

50,000 Special Border Areas Programme Fund (2) 20,000 92,285 Other Grants (3) 96,008 21,386 Sundry Income 26,825 4,224,833 3,913,671

Expenditure 3,641,776 General Expenditure on the arts (4) 3,889,278 14,918 Transfer to Capital Account (5) 5,015 315,496 Administration (6) 345,001 4,239,294 3,972,190 (58,519) Deficit for the year (14,461) 6,637 Surplus (Deficit) brought forward (51,882) £ (51,882) Deficit at 31st December 1982 £ (66,343) Notes 1 to 10 form part of these accounts.

James White, Chairman

Colm O Briain, Director

11th July 1983

BALANCE SHEET AT 31st DECEMBER 1982

31/12/81 £ Notes £ 79,859 Fixed Assets (5) 84,874 74,101 Net Assets of Trust Funds (7) 78,420 177,070 Loans (8) 261,813 505 Prize Bonds 505

Current Assets 81,042 Debtors 27,276 15,800 Grants paid in advance 22,500 96,842 49,776

Current Liabilities 54,981 Creditors 86,602 164,301 Grants and guarantees outstanding 219,727 107,017 Bank overdraft 72,108 326,299 378,437

(229,457) Net Current Liabilities (328,661) £102,078 £96,951

Represented by: 79,859 Capital Account (5) 84,874 74,101 Trust Funds (7) 78,420 (51,882) Income and Expenditure Account: Deficit (66,343) £102,078 Notes 1 to 10 form part of these accounts £96,951

James White, Chairman

Colm O Briain, Direction

11th July 1983

NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS

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

Note 2: Special Border Areas Programme Fund A grant of £20,000 was received from this fund and was paid to the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, Co. Monaghan, as part of the Council's scheme of grant-in-aid for capital purposes (see Note 4). The fund was established as part of the E.E.C. Regional Development Programme.

Note 3: Other Grants £ Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Grants) 70,436 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Dance Scholarships) 2,490 Donegal County Council (St John Bosco Club, Donegal) 10,000 Dublin Corporation (Brendan Behan Memorial Fellowship) 1,000 Dublin Corporation (Royal Irish Academy of Music) 4,890 Dundalk Urban District Council (Music Scholarships) 1,500 Irish Life Assurance Company Ltd (Patrick Collins Exhibition) 1,050 Louth County Council (Music Scholarship) 300 Mayo County Council (Music Scholarships) 260 Sligo-Leitrim Vocational Educational Committee (Writers-in-Schools Scheme) 91 Spanish Cultural Institute (George Campbell Memorial Travel Grant) 400 The Ireland Fund (Education Slide Packs) 3,591 £96,008

Note 4: General Expenditure on the Arts Directly ‡ 1981 Grants Promoted 1982 Total Activities £ 49,900 Artists' Programme 169,840 – 169,840 132,713 Bursaries, Scholarships, Travel Grants 103,987 – 103,987 109,493 Literature 93,279 12,259 105,538 196,585 *Visual Arts 149,035 31,135 180,170 1,748,994 Drama 1,831,461 – 1,831,461 286,269 Dance 358,974 – 358,974 83,063 Traditional Music 66,703 1,661 68,364 158,045 Opera 156,880 – 156,880 182,691 Music 217,080 5,996 223,076 104,669 Film 156,751 (349) 156,402 216,390 Arts Centres & Festivals 228,047 – 228,047 76,123 Community Arts 60,520 – 60,520 64,143 Arts in Education 14,972 36,237 51,209 42,474 Arts Development in the Regions 50,417 – 50,417 17,300 †Grants on behalf of local authorities 17,041 – 17,041 160,244 Capital 112,666 – 112,666 12,680 Research & Information – 14,686 14,686 £3,641,776 £3,787,653 £101,625 £3,889,278 * 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. † Grants on behalf of local authorities represent grant-paid made available on the recommendation of local authorities, who pay equivalent amounts to the Council under Section 12 of the Arts Act, 1973. ‡ The analysis of the previous year's expenditure has been altered slightly for the purposes of comparison.

Note 5: Capital Account Works of Art Motor Vehicle Total Balance 31st December 1981 74,793 5,066 79,859 Acquisitions 14,620 – 14,620 Cost of Disposals (9,605) – (9,605) 5,015 Balance 31st December 1982 £79,808 £5,066 £84,874

Note 6: Administration 1981 1982 Salaries, PRSI and Superannuation 194,919 239,427 Council and Staff Expenses 42,765 33,111 Consultants' Fees and Expenses 1,277 5,643 Office Furniture, Fittings and Equipment 5,146 2,272 Improvements to Premises 10,715 1,778 Rent, Light, Heat, Insurances, Cleaning, Repairs and other House Expenses 30,954 27,682 Printing, Stationery, Postage, Telephone and Sundry expenses 29,720 35,088 £315,496 £345,001

Note 7: Trust Funds

Assets at 31st December 1982 £ £ President Douglas Hyde Award £831.00 6% Exchequer Stock, 1980-85 840 (Market Value of Securities £703) Cash at Bank 452 1,292

W. J. B. Macaulay Foundation £26,400.00 15% Conversion Stock, 1988 20,546 (Market Value of Securities £28,433 Cash at Bank 2,696 23,242

New York Irish Institute Fund £1,729.00 6% Exchequer Stock, 1980-85 1,770 (Market Value of Securities £1,463) Cash at Bank – 1,770

Denis Devlin Foundation £2,600.00 15% Conversion Stock, 1988 2,032 (Market Value of Securities £2,800) Cash at Bank 1,570 3,602

Ciste Cholmcille £1,200.00 7% National Loan, 1987-92 1,030 £8,148.00 8½% Conversion Stock, 1986-88 8,099 £2,050.00 9¾% National Loan, 1984-89 2,004 £1,020.00 9¾% National Development Loan, 1992-97 1,005 £2,000.00 11% National Loan, 1993 -98 1,840 (Market Value of Securities £11,222) 13,978 Debtor 5,000 Cash at Bank 2,615 21,593

Marten Toonder Foundation £4,100.00 15% Conversion Stock, 1988 4,021 £6,000.00 11% National Loan, 1993-98 5,583 £6,600.00 12% Conversion Stock, 1995 6,711 5,602 Allied Irish Banks Limited, 25p Shares 5,189 £1,150.00 Bank of Ireland Stock 3,560 (Market Value of Securities £24,842) 25,064 Debtor 519 Cash at Bank 1,338 26,921 £78,420 Note: Securities are shown at cost and are held in trust by An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Movement of Trust Funds Brought Expen- Carried Forward Income diture Forward President Douglas Hyde Award 1,153 139 – 1,292 W.J.B. Macaulay Foundation 22,929 3,313 3,000 23,242 New York Irish Institute Fund 1,770 104 104 1,770 Denis Devlin Foundation 3,060 542 – 3,602 Ciste Cholmcille 19,085 17,808* 15,300 21,593 Marten Toonder Foundation 26,104 3,817 3,000 26,921 £74,101 £25,723 £21,404 £78,420 * Note: Income to Ciste Cholmcille includes subscriptions received amounting to £449 and a grant from the General Funds of An Chomhairle Ealaíon of £15,000.

Note 8: Interest Free Loans During 1982 sixteen additional interest-free loans were made: Balance outstanding 31st December 1981 177,070 Additional Loans 136,818 Repayments (52,075)

Balance outstanding 31st December 1982 (30 Loans) £261,813

Note 9: Future Commitments At 31st December 1982 the Council had approved grants and guarantees against loss on various activities due to take place after that date. The amount involved, £406,235, is not reflected in these accounts.

Note 10: Superannuation Scheme A Staff Superannuation Scheme under Section 10 of the Arts Act, 1973, is in operation. Equal contributions from Council and staff are paid into an insured fund which is held in trust by a corporate trustee.