Grants awarded in March 2008

PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT Dance Theatre of performing a three week tour in Korea and a four week collarorative residency with the Korean theatre company “Now Dance”,from the 16th August to 6th October 2008 €40,000 Ballymun Arts and Community Resourse Centre Axis Arts Centre presenting a one night show and conducting workshops from 14th - 29th June 2008 at Barrow Street Theatre €7,000 The Gate Theatre presenting its Beckett Season at the 2008 Lincoln Center Festival, New York from the 10th - 28th July 2008 €50,000 Rough Magic Theatre Company performing their award winning production of “Improbable Frequency” by Arthur Riordan at the 59E59 Theatre, New York from the 8th December 2008 - 4th January 2009 €80,000 Geoff Gould Blood in the Alley performing “Catalpa” at The London Fringe Festival, Ontario, Angigonish Festival, Nova Scotia and Festival Gros Morne, Newfoundland, Canada from the 31st July - 20th August 2008 €4,000 The Irish Repertory Theatre Frank McGuinness’ adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s”The Master Builder” being performed at the Irish Repertory Theatre, 132 West 22nd Street, New York, USA in summer 2008 €5,000 Fishamble Theatre Company performing “The Pride of Parnell Street” by Sebastian Barry at the New Plays from Europe theatre , Wiesbaden, Germany 13th - 16th June 2008 €7,000 Greek - Irish Society Declan Hughes speaking about his work “Shiver” at the Athens Centre, Greece on the 12th June 2008 €750 The Montana Repertory Theatre performing Anaconda Ashes at the Mother Lode Theatre, in Butte,Montana theatre/dance and University Theatre, University of Montana in Missoula from the 30th July - 10th October 2008 €20,000 Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre performing “The Bull” at the spielzeiteuropa as part of the from the 27th - 30th November 2008 €40,000 Brokentalkers performing a live performance at the Campo Victoria via audio and video feed, Gent, Belgium from the 24th - 28th June 2008 €5,000 Meabh Cheasty performing Disco - nnect at the Domestic at the Conflux Festival of Contemporary Psychogeography in Brooklyn, New York from 11th - 14th September 2008 €2,000 Calypso performing “Fairytaleheart” At The National Theatre of Kosova, on 10th September, Professional theatre of Prizen in the Culture House on 11th September and at the Childrens Theatre Centre in Skopje on the 12th September 2008 €20,000 Michael Collins performing “It’s a Cultural Thing or is it” at the Burach Arts Theatre in New York, May/ June 2008 €4,000 Jenny Roche presenting a lecture “Solo Mapping” at the World Dance Alliance Global Summit in Brisbane, Australia from the 13th - 18th July 2008 €1,500 Ballet Ireland performing “Swan Lake” in a number of theatres throughout England from the 1st - 28th November 2008 €25,000 PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT Thisispopbaby performing “All Dolled Up” and “Danny and Chantelle” at the Brighton Festival Fringe, Udderbelly from the 20th - 25th May €8,000 Fishamble Theatre Company performing ‘Forgotten’ at the Sibu Festival in Romania 2008 €4,000 theatre SUBTOTAL €323,250

PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT Maggie Cronin performing a one women show “Greenstick Boy” in the West Drawing room at the Assembly Rooms, at the Festival Fringe from the 28th July - 26th August 2008 €5,000 Mad Cap Theatre Company bringing “Living with Johnny Depp” to the Zoo Venue at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe from the 1st - 25th August 2008 €8,000 Fishamble Theatre Company performing “Forgotten” at at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, from the 3rd - 25th August 2008 €10,000 Djinn Theatre Company performing “The Magic Tree” at the , Edinburgh Fringe Festival from the 1st - 23rd August 2008 €30,000 Dragonfly Theatre performing “Married to the Sea” in the Wild Men Room in the Assembly Room at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe from the 30th July - 25th August 2008 €10,000 SUBTOTAL €63,000 Edinburgh Fringe Festival Edinburgh Fringe

PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT Screen Directors Guild of Ireland hosting the annual General Assembly of the Federation of European Film Directors in Dublin Ireland from the 14th - 15th June 2008 €8,000 Galway Film Fleadh international film programmers attendence at the Galway Film Fleadh from the 8th - 13th July 2008 €3,000 Crossing the Line Films producing a concert with Liam Clancy at the Whitehorse Tavern, Greenwich Village, New York on the 30th June 2008 €2,000 Screen Directors Guild of Ireland film hosting the annual Director Finders Series to enable Irish Directors to present their film to the American Film industry on the 26th September 2008 €7000 Headland Pictures Ltd attending Toronto Documentary Forum for which their film’The Trial’ has been selected on 22nd-23rd April 2008 €1,500 Samson Films towards the cost of showing their film ‘Eden’ at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York in /april 2008 €5,000 SUBTOTAL €26,500

PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde performing “The Odyssey of the Sea Stallion from Glendalough” a musical of its voyage from Dublin to Roskilde in Roskilde, Denmark from the 7th - 10th August 2008 €7,000 music PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT Melanie OReilly presenting a contemporary musical performance of James Joyce work in the Irish Consulate in Edinburgh on the 15th June 2008 €600 Wexford Sinfonia orchestra playing 2 concerts in , France in 12th - 15th June 2008 €2,000 Benjamin Dwyer performing at the 2008 Musica Nova Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil from the 21st - 24th August 2008 €6,500 Dr Janet Harbison performing Irish Traditional Music workshops and concerts from the Birdsong Harp Center, The First Baptist Church and Memphis Cathedral in Holladay, Camden, Jackson and Memphis, Tennessee USA from the 13th - 18th May 2008 €600 The Royal Irish Academy of Music performing at the Orkesterfestivalen 2008 as part of the Stavanger European Capital of Culture Programme in Norway from the 20th - 25th June 2008 €5,000 Concorde performing at Unicum festival, Llubljana, Slovenia on 10th May 2008 €2,500 Sounds Different Cultural Association two music concerts and a Irish dance show to be preformed at a festival held at “Giardini del Tolomei, Siena, Italy from the 5th - 7th June 2008 €2,000 John Leo Carter performing at a music and art festival in Sattra, Oland, Sweden from the 3rd to 5th July 2008 €1,000 Ronán Browne Cran performing the closing concert at the Quebec City Celtic Festival, Canada on the 31st August 2008 €1,000 Association of Irish composers performing at the Prestigious Musica Viva Festival, Lisbon, Portugal from the 25th September 2008 €3,000 Attridge Academy of Irish Dance participating in the International Folklore Festival Vitosha run by the Vitosha Cultural Club, Sofia, Bulgaria from the 12th - 18th July 2008 €2,000 music Na Piobairí Uilleann presenting a tour of uilleann piping in eleven venues in Los Angeles, Seattle, Atlanta, East Rochester, Vermont, , Minneapolis, Milwaukee, St Louis, Toronto, Newfoundland, from the 12th - 26th September 2008 and London, Manchester, Newcastle, Galsgow, Bonn, Germany from the 10th - 16th November 2008 €20,000 Muiream Nic Amhlaoibh presenting workshops and a performance at “Ceol Aneas”, New Zealand’s leading Traditional Irish Music Festival from 30th May - 2nd June 2008 €1,000 Karishmeh Felfeli performing at a chamber music festival in Ottawa, Canada from the 28th J uly - 6th August 2008 €1,000 Matt Cranitch performing at the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention in St Johns, Newfoundland, Canada from the 3rd - 8th August 2008 €1,500 RTE Vanburgh Quartet performing at the 2008 David Oistrakh Festival, Parnu, Estonia at the Elizabeth Church from the 23rd - 24th July 2008 €3,000 Lundstrom Arts Management Caitríona O’Leary and Dúlra performing at the Zagreb Festival, Rijeka Chamber Music Festival, Zader Musical Evenings at St Donatus Festival and Split summer festival from the 10th - 16th July 2008 €5,000 Cathie Ryan performing at the RiRa Festival in Downtown Historic Butte, Montana, US from the 8th - 10th August 2008 €600 Catskills Irish Art Week Irish presenting the 14th Annual summer school of traditional Irish music and dance in East Durham, New York from the 13th - 20th July 2008 €6,000 PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT The National Cathedral of Saint Patrick Dublin performing at Roskilde Cathedral for the return of the replica Viking Ship Sea Stallion to Roskilde, Denmark from the 8th - 11th August 2008 €3,000 Hungarian - Irish Friends Association organising a 2 day cultural Festival presenting Irish Music and Dance, Budapest, Hungary from the 25th - 28th July 2008 €600 Musique Royale Brian Finnegan to perform at the Boxwood Festival in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia from the 19 - 25th July 2008 €600 Robert Brown Newfoundland Piping Tionol to take place at the School of Music, Memorial University, St John’s, Canada from the 1st - 3rd August 2008 €2,000 Return to Camden town 10 day Festival of traditional Irish Music and Dance at the London Irish Centre from the 25th October - 2nd November 2008 €15,000 The National Chamber Choir performing at the MDR Musiksommer festival and Europaeische Kirchenmusik Festival from the 26th - 27th July 2008 €10,000 Ruaidhri O’Dalaigh The NUI Maynooth Chamber Choir performing at Bourlon, Town Hall, Féchain, Town Hall and Blois Main Hall, Paris, France from the 15th - 20th June 2008 €2,500 Cor Mhaigheo performing at the Latvian Song Festival at Dome Square, Riga, Latvia on 9th July 2008 €2,000 3Epkano/ Matthew Nolan performing a live musical performance accompanying “the Cat and The Canary” at the Film Society of Lincoln Centre on the 18th July and a performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on the 16th July 2008 €8,000 Cork Symphony Orchestra

music performing as part of the Liverpool Capital of Culture at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool on the 10th May 2008 €4,000 Kilfenora Ceili Band céilís and a concert at the Milwaukee Irish Festival from the 14th - 17th August 2008 €8,000 Gavin Prior performing at the 7th International Terrastock Festival, New York and a months tour of 17 concerts in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, Ohio, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania from the 12th June - 6th July 2008 €1,000 Ian Wilson introducing his violin concerto “Messenger” at Camerata Pacifica’s concert at New Yorks Morgan Library on 25th April 2008 €600 Ensemble Scratch the Surface has been invited to curate a performance at the Musée des Beaux - Arts, Nimes, France on the 21st June 2008 €1,500 Patrick Garrett performing concerts at major festival in Montana, Kansas City, Boston Icon Festival, Celtic Fest Chicago, Kansas City Midwest arts Conference, Irish 2000 Festival, Myrna Loy Cantre, Syracuse Irish Festival, East Hartford Recreation Centre and York Historical Society Museum from 7th August - 28th September 2008 €3,000 Maria Tecce performing a new show “Viva” at the Prague Fringe Festival from the 29th May - 1st June 2008 €750 Craobh na hÉireann den Comhdháil Cheilteach attending the International Celtic Congress for a six day event from the 27th July - 2nd August 2008 €500 Music in Great Irish Houses festival performing “the Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” at the Corn Exchange Theatre, Brighton for the Brighton Festival from the 19th May 2008 €4,000 PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT Shamrock Traditional Music Society performing 3 concerts by Liz Carroll and John Doyle on the 3rd May at the Fairfield Theatre Company, Damien and Seamus Connolly at the Tressler’s Barn on the 17th May and Andy Irvine at the Fairfield Museum from the 23rd - 24th June 2008 €600 Young Composers Collective performing concerts and seminars at the Rymer Auditorium of the Music Department of the University of York on the 10th May 2008 €2,000 Tullamore Branch Comhaltas Tullamore Branch of CCE to pefrom one concert and a day workshopin Auditorium of European Parliament Buildings from the 2nd - 5th May 2008 €1,000 Danijela Kulezic Wilson The Music and the Moving Image conference of Film Music scholars at the New York University from 30th May - 1st June 2008 €300 The Irish Music Society of Oulu to bring over the Irish Garda Band, Andy Irvine and puppeteer Miriam Lambert at Nuku Youth and Culture Centre, Oulu from 2nd - 5th October 2008 €3,000 Camerata Ireland performing Beethoven Piano Concertos at France La Chaise Dieu Festival and music Bayonne Festival from 27th - 30th August 2008 €20,000 St Patrick’s Brass Band performing at Waldeschaff Church, Castle Mespelbrunn and Hessenthal Band Festival, Bavaria, Germany from 11th - 13th July 2008 €1,000 The National Youth Orchestra participating in the 150th anniversary of the Bern Conservatory, 2008 €20,000 The Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra performing 49 concert tour of the United States from the 8th January - 18th March 2009 €20,000 European Union Youth Orchestra performing a 12 concert tour in Italy, France, Germany, China, Japen and Korea from 23th July - 22nd August 2008 €20,000 Irish Cultural Centre Hammersmith presenting an Irish Film Festival and Irish Music Concerts at the Irish Cultural Centre and Riverside Studios, Hammersmith from the 12th - 15th June 2008 €6,500 SUBTOTAL €237,750

PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT Fergus Feehily participating in a group exhibition at the Misako and Rosen Gallery, Tokyo from the 1st - 11th June 2008 €1,000 Fergus Feehily participating in a solo exhibition at Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Germany from the 4th - 11th May 2008 €1,000 Samuel Walsh’s solo exhibition “The Divine Comedy” at the Musee de Pont Aven, Brittany, France from the 24th May - 1st July 2008 €800 Mothers Tankstation participating at 2 Art fairs, Next located at the Merchandise Mart, Chicago from the 25th - 28th April and Art Basel located at the Messe Basel in the Swiss Exhibition Center, Basel, Switzerland from the 4th - 8th June 2008 €10,000

visual art Christine Barton Willie Doherty bring his video installation “Passage” to take part in the Exhibition “The Subject Now” in the Adam art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand from the 25th July - 5th October 2008 €3,000 Gallery of Photography participating in a solo exhibition in Les Rencontres D’Arles, France from the 8th - 13th July 2008 €4,000 PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT Kerlin Gallery taking part in the Art Basel Fair, Switzerland from the 4th - 8th June, the Frieze Art Fair, London from the 16th -19th October, Art Basel Miami Beach Fair from the 4th - 7th December 2008 and the Armory Show, New York in March 2009 €20,000 Graphic Studio Dublin participating in a exhibition at the Municipal Gallery “Dwor Karwacjanow”, Gorlice, Poland with a selection of other Irish artists from the 1st - 14th September 2008 €5,500 Antoin O’Heocha participating in a solo exhibition at the Universal studios, Beijing, China from the 1st - 30th August 2008 €2,000 John Roch Simons presenting a solo exhibition of his work in the 411 Gallery, Shanghai, China, July and August 2008 €5000 Stoney Road Press participating at the London Original Print Fair on the 23rd - 27th April 2008 €5,000 Nina Canell exhibiting a solo exhibition at , The European Biennial for Contemporary art in Rovereto, Italy from the 19th July - 2nd November 2008 €4,000 Rubicon Gallery participating at Next Chicago Art Fair from the 25th -28th April and Volta, Basel, Switzerland from the 3rd - 7th June 2008 €10,000 Eddie Kennedy organising a solo exhibition at the 531 West 25th Street in Chelsea, Manhattan, New York from the 4th - 27th September 2008 €1,000 Anne Scullin organising a solo exhibition at the 411 Gallery Shanghai, China from the 26th April - 3rd May 2008 €750 Mark Garry organising a solo exhibition at the Mattress Factory art Museum, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania from the 25th April 2008 - 11th January 2009 €2,500 Inishlacken - A Place Apart organising an exhibition at the Red House Arts Centre, New York from 18th December - 18th January 2008 €1,000 visual art Eamon O’Kane performing a tour at the Economist London 24th July - 19th September, Rugby City Art Gallery, UK from 8th July - 25th August and ArtSway, New Forest, UK in Mid 2009 €2,000 Brian Maguire participating in the Third Beijing Biennale Exhibition, July 2008 €1,500 Green on Red Gallery participating at the Volta Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland,from the 2nd 7th June 2008 Artforum Art Fair, Berlin, 3rd September - 9th October 2008, Zoo Art Fair, London from the 17th - 20th October 2008, Nada art Fair, Miami from the 5th - 9th December 2008 and Organising exhibitions in Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Poland on the 17th May, Musee D’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, on the 12th June 2008, from 18th June - 7th September 2008, Manifesta Biennale, Trentino, Italy from the 19th July - 2nd November 2008, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Germany from the 9th October - 9th November 2008, Rental, New York, Sunday Gallery, New York, Misako and Rosen Gallery Tokyo €20,000 Eamon Coleman organising a solo exhibition at the Cecile R Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St Louis, Missouri, USA from the 14th November 2008 - 10th January 2009 €1,200 Amanda Dunsmore organising a exhibition at the KunstRaum Goethetrasse xtd, Linz, Austria from 1st - 14th August 2008 €2,000 Institute of Contemporary Arts Limited organising “Nought to Sixty” a exhibition of English and Irish Artists in the Institute of Contemporary arts from the 5th May - 2nd November 2008 €4,000 PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT Alan Magee organising a exhibition at the Galerie Jakubska, Prague from the 23rd April - 7th May 2008 €540 Michael Warren participating in Arte - Materia: Dialogues exhibition at the EXPO 2008 Festival in Fargoza, Spain from the 14th June - 14th September 2008 €10,000 Hugh McCarthy and Daniel Greaney curating an exhibition of contemporary Irish Artists at the Brick Lane Gallery, visual art London from June12th-June 30th 2008 €4,000 SUBTOTAL €116,790

PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT Sydney Writers Festival bringing Anne Enright to participate in the Sydney Writers festival from the 12th - 26th May 2008 €2,000 Miriam Lee organising a panel session to share experiences in creating, organising, securing funding and running a Book Fair with representatives Worldwide in Shanghai, China from the 30th July - 8th August 2008 €1,000 Niall Williams to perform at the 1st International Writers Festival in Jerusalem, Israel from the 11th - 16th May 2008 €800 Center for writers and Translators Paul Muldoon travelling for the book Launch of his 8th volume of Cahiers Series at the American University of Paris, France on the 20th May 2008 €1,000 Niall De Burca to perform his own stories and workshops at Statewide Cultural Extension Tour at

literature the University of Hawaii from the 18th - 30th June 2008 €1,000 Gabriel Rosenstock performing a reading at the 7th International Poetry Festival, Costa Rica, 16th - 28th May 2008 €800 Neil McCarthy performing “The Voice and The Verse” at the 2008 Prague Fringe Festival and a tour in Budapest, Vienna, Cluj Napoca, Krakow, Berlin and Prague from the 17th May - 2nd June 2008 €1,000 University of Aberdeen bringing John Banville, Brian Friel and Claire Keegan to present their work at the Aberdeen Writers Festival from 9th-11th May 2008 €1,000 SUBTOTAL €8,600

PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT The Reflecting City organising an exhibition on “The Reflecting City” at the Historic Lingotto complex in Turin, Italy from the 29th June - 3rd July 2008 €5,000 Irish Architecture Foundation presenting Ireland’s exhibition at the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale €150,000 SUBTOTAL €155,000 architecture